Atlanta woman dies, then her family’s home is stolen | ANF Investigates

 Brenda Booth was still mourning the loss of her beloved sister, Claudia Marie, when she found out her sister had transferred her home’s deed to a private company on April 26, 2022.“Uh, she can’t sign a deed three months after she died,” Booth recalled.Families such as Booth’s say metro Atlanta law police are not criminally pursuing cases of stolen homes, which is all part of a troubling trend of deed theft in Georgia.Claudia Marie died in 2022 after a long period of declining health. While Booth was preparing for her sister’s demise, she could not anticipate what happened afterward.Booth sought the help of probate court attorney Daniel Kalamaro to handle her late sister’s assets. Among those assets was a Clayton County home in the unincorporated community of Rex.“It’s usually a fairly routine process: gather the assets, gather the debts, identify the creditors and make your disbursements and away you go,” Kalamaro explained. “That did not happen here.”“It’s been a doozie.”Read the full story here: https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/02/12/if-your-home-gets-stolen-will-police-investigate-this-family-says-no/