For 16 months, the mail kept arriving, the Social Security direct deposits kept clearing, and the emails signed “James” kept popping up in family inboxes.
Inside the suburban house on South Ammons Street, the real James O’Neill was wrapped in plastic, taped up tight, and tucked beneath a deflated air mattress on the floor.
The grim charade officially closed when Suzanne Agnew, 57, was sentenced to five years behind bars, joining her 58-year-old co-defendant, James Agnew, who received an identical term in April. Both pleaded guilty to tampering with a deceased human body and identity theft, capping off an investigation that read more like a twisted thriller than a typical Colorado court docket…