LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Shunned by siblings who buried him once and daughters he sexually abused, disgraced Marine Staff Sgt. Arthur Bennett was buried Monday in a pauper's grave.
Bennett faked his own death in February 1994 when he faced court-martial charges for sexually assaulting children of fellow Marines. Family members turned out then to bury the remains of a man found in a burned trailer, a man thought to be Bennett.Bennett hanged himself with a bedsheet in his Clark County Detention Center cell July 12. He was buried on the edge of the downtown district. Clark County taxpayers will pick up the $720 tab.
Two of Bennett's brothers, Scott, 39, and David, 41, and his mother, Ellen, 67, have declined to be responsible for funeral services. So has his ex-wife, Amelia, 45. The four face federal conspiracy charges in connection with $200,000 in military insurance benefits paid to the family when Bennett was declared dead in the trailer fire.