Thomas Prusik-Parkin accused of dressing up as his dead mother to collect her Social Security and rent subsidies is blaming the crime on an impersonator.
Thomas Prusik-Parkin told that the person captured on security cameras dressed in a wig and his mom's clothing wasn't him.
The 49-year-old also claimed his mother was once a B-movie star who dated Gene Kelly, and offered a rambling discourse on the psyche of Norman Bates, the cross-dressing killer in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho."
Parkin, along with the help of 47-year-old Mhilton Rimolo, who allegedly posed as the woman's nephew, were booked on a 47-count indictment for an elaborate scheme which police are calling a "multi-year campaign of fraud that was unparalleled in its scope and brazenness."
Most of the money they acquired is believed to have been transferred to a bank account in Costa Rica.