MONTICELLO – The man who kept his dead mother’s body in his freezer in his Colchester home in October 2008, was sentenced in Sullivan County Court Friday to six months in jail for cashing her social security checks.

Roland Auslander, 70, cashed 18 months of Herta Auslander’s checks after she died in her 90s and her son put her body in a freezer on the porch of their house.  It was believed his mother died of natural causes.

Auslander pled guilty to grand larceny and forgery.