You know the old saying: What goes around comes around.
That seems to be the case for a Pennsylvania mansion's live-in caretaker who died after drinking stolen whiskey worth more than $102,000, The Associated Press reported.
But John Saunders, 63, didn't exactly die right away.
Owner Patricia Hill bought the mansion in 2011 and turned it into the South Broadway Manor Bed and Breakfast. It was then that she discovered the hidden cases of whiskey, she told police.
"There were four cases, 52 bottles, manufactured by an old distillery here in the Township that went out of business many years ago," Scottdale, Pa. chief of police Barry Pritts said.
According to Pritts, the bottles were from the pre-Prohibition era and were passed down, ABC News reported.
"The family that owned the estate, somebody hid it under a flight of stairs and enclosed the staircase and the estate went through several families," Pritts said.
Saunders was hired by Hill to guard the property, including the ancient whiskey bottles, but Saunders had an agenda of his own.
Instead, Saunders drank 52 bottles of the Old Farm Pure Rye Whiskey, which was discovered when Hill wanted to have the bottles appraised in March of 2012, according to AP.
Though Saunders denied the claims, police found DNA on the bottles from his saliva and he was charged with felony theft and receiving stolen property, Pritts told ABC News.
Saunders was ordered to stand trial, but the case was dropped after his death on July 21.
Old Farm Pure Rye Whiskey was produced in 1912, bottled in 1917 and was valued at more than $2,000 per bottle.
