Twin brothers who left their mother's rotting corpse on the floor of their US home for three months have been charged with murder.
Police allege 48-year-olds Edwin and Edward Berndt left their mother to die after she fell in the Texas property in January.
The pair were arrested on Monday after police found their mother's corpse crawling with bugs on the floor of their home in Houston, NY Daily News reports.
Investigators said they went looking for Sybil Berndt after a neighbour told them she had not been seen for months.
When officers arrived at her house, Edwin Berndt tried to stop them entering, and only let them in after they insisted.
Police found Mrs Berndt's body lying face down on the floor, wearing a dirty nightgown that was pulled up under her arms and no underwear.
The brothers told police their mother died on January 10 after she slipped and fell while they were watching a college football game.
They said she was conscious and talking to them for three days as she lay on the floor.
The brothers admitted they did not give her any food or water before she died on January 13, the day after her 89th birthday.
The twins told police they decided to leave their mother's corpse on the floor because they did not have enough money to pay for an ambulance or burial.
While searching the house investigators found bank statements for accounts holding a total of $A670,000.
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