Greenspan's Body Count: Mildred "Dodie" Harrington

This century’s most prolific serial killer may have slowed down in his old age, but he still manages a killing on occasion.

Today’s episode of Greenspan’s Body Count is the sad tale of an old woman alleged murdered for money by her own grandson:

A Texas man accused of murdering his grandmother in her East Dundee home for a share of her inheritance was nearly $162,000 behind on his mortgage and had charged at least $27,100 on her credit card in cash advances in the six months before her death, witnesses testified Friday.

Richard Schmelzer, 44, of Frisco, a Dallas suburb, is charged with fatally stabbing Mildred “Dodie” Darrington in her bed in July 2014.

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Schmelzer was $161,715.92 behind on the mortgage when Darrington, 85, was killed. Schmelzer and his wife took out the loan in February 2007 and were in arrears within 18 months, McCarty testified.

Greenspan’s Body Count stands at 256.