Mel Spillman (born 1948) is an American probate clerk and fraudster who transferred properties of dead people to his own accounts.
In the 1980s he began to work as a probate consultant in the medical examiner's office, handling funeral arrangements and other affairs of people who had died without heirs.
When he sold the remaining property of the deceased, he did not turn the proceeds over to the state but transferred to money to himself.
In 2001 one of the probate judges notice that Spillman's name was listed on papers that could not be tracked through official channels.
Spillman was arrested in July 2002 in a sting operation when he left a bank with $900 from a liquidated estate.