OR OR - Georgia Kirk, 98, Klamath County, 26 June 2015

Kirk told a Klamath County Deputy his mother left for California with a friend in late May or early June of 2015. He claimed he was unable to remember the name of the friend. After searching California for Nadine and the friend, whose name Ted eventually gave them, detectives came up empty handed.


Klamath County Det. Nick Kennedy asked Kirk for permission to search his property with cadaver detection dogs, but he declined. Kirk did agree to provide a DNA sample for the detective.

The financial part of the case ended up in the hands of Special Agent Dale Boring with the Social Security Administration's Office of Inspector General.

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The court documents say Social Security paid $81,360 into the joint bank account of Nadine and Ted Kirk over the five years covered in the criminal complaint. Boring wrote that bank activity contradicts Kirk's statements that he was not financially dependent upon his mother's income.

"The bank records do not show debits or checks payable to any person or vendor that would typically be associated with expenses for an elderly woman, such as hair salon payments or medical payments. These withdrawals are not consistent with Kirk believing that his mother was alive and might be in need of the funds," court documents said.

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