ST. LOUIS — A man entrusted with his quadriplegic uncle's care instead subjected him to verbal abuse and insufficient medical attention while accessing $1.9 million in government benefits from his account, prosecutors said.

Brian K. Ditch, 45, admitted Friday to keeping his uncle Thomas Clubb's death a secret for six years while he kept drawing veterans and social security benefits.

He told family members that he'd sent Clubb to a nursing home. He told police that Clubb was given to another caretaker.

Instead, police found Clubb's body, severely decomposed and partially frozen, earlier this year inside of a trash can in a shed outside Ditch's house in Salem, Missouri.

Federal prosecutors charged Ditch with 11 felonies, including fraud, aggravated identity theft and being a felon in pos

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