re: 112 year old WW2 vet has entire life savings stolen from him

Imagine living to 90. Then living 22 more freaking years

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112 years old

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Smokes a dozen cigars a day

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Now that’s a BAW!!!

This is kind of strange. I read the article at CNN and it says someone stole his identity and emptied his bank account. Sounds like an “inside” job to me. If the thief never went to the bank and did all of the stealing via computer, certainly police will be able to track that information. If the thief went to the bank or ATM, certainly there are videos of the person accessing the account. I would bet everything that one of his loving family members emptied his bank account to make sure they got the $$ before he died and before anyone else in the family did. I saw quite a bit of this while working in Home Health. Patients would confide in me that they didn’t understand what was happing to their $, “it was disappearing from their bank account”. We got Social Services and law enforcement to investigate and sure enough!!!

Too much made of the cigars he clearly says he smokes them the healthy way

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Overton’s family reported on Friday that thieves managed to steal Richard’s Social Security number and bank account information, which they used to drain his life savings. Richard’s cousin Volma Overton Jr. discovered the theft after he deposited money into Richard’s personal account, which showed a balance of $0.

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I don't get this. They haven't contacted the police, but have they even bothered to contact the bank? If he had say 100K in his account and it was stolen via identity theft, the money is federally insured. Just shrugging your shoulders and setting up a GoFundMe instead seems highly suspicious. Now if you are a family member who has been slowly stealing money out of the account over time, this is exactly what you do. Chances are they will they will loot the funds from the GoFundMe account too

Also, exactly how big was this guy's life savings if his cousin is having to deposit money into the account?

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He still drives, lives in his own home he purchased in 1945, and has himself a girlfriend. Day to day expenses would be my guess.

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I actually made a thread about how badass this guy is a few months back: LINK

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Richard Overton is right where he wants to be.

He’s sitting in a lawn chair on the front porch of the Austin home he built nearly 70 years ago, working on his fifth Tampa Sweet cigar on a 91-degree sunny day. The smooth tunes of the Isley Brothers flow from a portable speaker. Birds are chirping in the late afternoon breeze.

“I’m feeling pretty good today,” Overton says, emphasizing the word pretty, because any day spent on this porch smoking cigars is a pretty good day for the 111-year-old.

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Overton starts his mornings as early as 3 a.m., drinking two to four cups of coffee. He’ll walk around his house to increase blood flow to his limbs, then smoke his first of 12 daily cigars. If he can, he’ll fall back asleep. Every day, he’s eager for the sun and the neighborhood to rise.

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Now that's a real man. Glad he got his money back.