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NEW YORK — A man accused of dressing up as his dead mother to collect her Social Security and rent subsidies is blaming the crime on an impersonator.
Thomas Parkin told the New York Post in a jailhouse interview that he wasn’t the person captured on security cameras dressed in a wig and his mom’s clothing.
The newspaper said that during the interview at Riker’s Island, the 49-year-old also claimed his mother was once a B-movie star and offered a rambling discourse on the psyche of Norman Bates, the cross-dressing killer in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.”
