This
life-imitating-movie story is one for the books: in order to prevent his
home from being foreclosed, Thomas Prusik Parkin decided that the only
course of action was to impersonate his dead elderly mother and sue ...
himself.
“I held my mother when she was dying and breathed in her
last breath, so I am my mother,” Parkin told detectives.
In the trial now nearing conclusion in Brooklyn Supreme Court,
51-year-old Parkin is being presented by the prosecution as a kind of
Norman Bates for our time, armed not with a knife, but a pen, seeking
not blood, but money. Rather than terrorize a rundown motel, Parkin
is accused of dressing up like his dead mom, Irene Prusik, to perpetuate
an intricate series of frauds over a six-year period involving a $2.2
million Park Slope brownstone and a $990,000 mortgage, as well as $115,000
in Social Security and other government payments.
The evidence against him includes a film made not by Alfred Hitchcock,
but by investigators with the Brooklyn D.A.’s office using a buttonhole
camera. It was screened on Wednesday before jurors, who seemed greatly
entertained as they watched a figure in a red top slumped at the end
a sofa wearing an obvious blonde wig, lipstick, blackout sunglasses,
and an oxygen mask.
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