Woman arrested for taking corpse to bank to sign documents

A woman brought a 68-year-old man in a wheelchair into a bank branch and tried to get him to sign for a loan, but he had been dead for hours, Brazilian police said on Wednesday.

Erika Vieira Nunes wheeled the cadaver into the bank in a Rio suburb on Tuesday and told the teller the man wanted a loan for 17,000 reais ($3,250), security camera video showed.

Her lawyer argued that the man died at the bank but a police forensic analysis determined he had died earlier, while lying down.

While Police could not exactly provide the moment that Braga died, cadaver spots that were visible on the back of his head indicate that he would have been dead for about two hours.

Had Roberto died while he was sitting in the wheelchair, the cadaver patches would have been located on his legs, authorities said. 

That comes as new footage has been unearthed showing Erika pushing around the corpse in the mall before wheeling in to the bank.