Man kept dead granny in bags to stay on in her house

NEW YORK: A man fearful he’d become homeless after the death of his doting 85-year-old grandmother five months ago kept her corpse wrapped in plastic bags inside her house, masking the smell with air fresheners and a fan, police said.

Christopher Fuhrer, 30, was arrested on improper burial and other charges after officers conducting a welfare check at Erika Kraus-Breslin’s two-story Queens home on Wednesday discovered her body, according to police.

“She loved this kid,” said Toni Binanti, owner of a nearby bakery where Kraus-Breslin worked for nearly two decades.

“Out of all of her grandchildren, this was the one she talked about the most.”

Fuhrer moved in with his grandmother on a tree-lined, dead-end street in the borough’s quiet Ridgewood neighbourhood several years ago, Binanti said. Neighbours described him as a quiet man who rarely socialised with others.

After Kraus-Breslin’s daughter called from out-of-state and asked police to check up on her, Fuhrer told responding officers he was worried he’d have nowhere to live once his grandmother died, police said.