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Arma woman accused of bilking $923,897 out of elderly woman
“Physically, she’s very frail,” she said. “Mentally, she has the onset of dementia. Some things are very clear to her, and other things she gets confused.”
Vanderelzen said she was aware that the Anselmis had been delivering hot lunches to her aunt for at least two years. She said she began to question the relationship in April, when Ernestine Anselmi started answering the phone at Zanichelli’s house.
From there, Vanderelzen said, the Anselmis began to isolate her aunt from other family members.
“It was kind of a fishy thing going on,” she said. “I’d call or my sister would call, and Ernestine would say, ‘Call back, she’s napping.’”
Vanderelzen said she was planning to visit her aunt last month in Arma, but she received a phone call from the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services stating that the agency had received a call on an elder-abuse hot line about Zanichelli’s situation. She said she did not know who had phoned the state hot line.
Vanderelzen said that when she arrived Aug. 30 at her aunt’s home, her aunt and Ernestine and Ernest Anselmi were at the house.
Vanderelzen said she did not believe her aunt had been physically abused, but she questioned whether the couple were providing her aunt with 24-hour care as she said they contended.
“I don’t think they stayed here 24 hours a day like they said,” she said. “There were just TV dinners and frozen meals in the freezer. A box of cereal was just ripped open. It looked like Aunt Lena had torn it open as best she could to get to it.”
Emergency assistance
The attorney general’s office has appointed an emergency guardian and an emergency conservator for Lena Zanichelli to assist with sorting out her financial records.
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