Jewelry, false lashes, plane tickets, and tuition payments are just some of the purchases investigators believe were made with money stolen from a vulnerable group home resident.
Court records allege a Katy boarding home operator took nearly $75,000 in just three months from Debra Mellinger, a 67-year-old woman with dementia and a history of mental illness, who lived at the home. Her daughter-in-law believes the total loss was even higher.
Mellinger was an Army veteran and a retired postal worker, remembered by family as independent and deeply devoted to her loved ones…