A bizarre case in Italy where an unemployed man found an unusual way to get income - $61,000 per year thanks to his dead mother.

The son, who has not been identified, had been doing this since his mom died three years ago.

Graziella Dall’Oglio, whose mummified corpse was found in her family’s home.

According to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, he hid his mother’s mummified corpse inside their house.

The death of his mother, Graziella Dall’Oglio at the age of 82, was never reported by him to the authorities.

The 56-year-old son, disguised as his deceased mother

To make things more macabre, he concealed her dead body in a sleeping bag and kept it in the laundry room of the family home.

According to the authorities, the corpse had mummified by the time the authorities found out about it.

Meanwhile, the son, 56, had impersonated each detail of his mother, including her makeup, while managing to even renew her identity card at a government office after she passed away.

Corriere della Sera reported that the son was able to pocket roughly $61,000 per year with his mother’s pension and a property portfolio of three houses.

The son underwent a “Mrs Doubtfire-style transformation”, according to the authorities.

This is in reference to the 1993 movie “Mrs Doubtfire”, in which Robin Williams stars as a divorced comedian who impersonates a housekeeper in order to still see his children after the divorce.

The conning son’s scheme was picked up on by a government employee who noticed his masculine features and his thick neck, according to the outlet. He is under investigation for illegally hiding a body and for benefit fraud, while it is not yet known if he was arrested.

The mother is suspected to have died of natural causes without any foul play contributing to her death, according to Francesco Aporti, the mayor of Italian town Borgo Virgilio, who labelled it as a “very strange” and “very sad story”.