DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bring out your dead. That’s what an Iowa funeral home is calling on families to do with the unclaimed cremated remains of nearly 100 people that it has been keeping in a locked closet for years, some since the mid-1990s. Lanae Strovers, of Hamilton’s Funeral Home in Des Moines, told TV […]
A Georgia funeral home owner was arrested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation after three sets of human remains were found in a shed behind his business. Percy Hodges, 70, faces three charges of throwing away or abandonment of dead bodies, which is a felony, reports AJC. Hodges was transferred into the custody of the Candler County Sheriff’s […]
DETROIT (AP) — An anonymously written letter led Michigan inspectors to find badly decomposed remains of 11 infants hidden in a ceiling compartment of a shuttered Detroit funeral home, police say. Inspectors with the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs found the remains Friday at the former Cantrell Funeral Home, just hours after receiving […]
On March 23, Florida police shot and killed 30-year-old Linus Phillip Jr. after stopping him at a gas station. Days before his funeral on April 31, detectives from the Largo Police department entered a funeral home where he was being held and tried to use his fingerprint to unlock his iPhone according to The Root. Phillips family […]
09/21/17- On this week’s Seriously Ignorant News, Damon reports on a man who breaks into a funeral home. Just what exactly was he planning on doing in there? The man chilled, took a nap and wore the clothes set out for a deceased man’s funeral. That’s what you do when you break into funeral homes! Like […]
This has got to be one on the absolute worst mistakes a funeral home can make. Imagine you have had a wonderful “Homegoing Celebration” for your beloved 81-year-old mother, only to learn days later that someone else was buried in her plot instead. That’s what happened to Bruce Lawson from Houston, Texas, who, according to […]
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The Lifetime TV network says it dropped a reality show about a Texas mortuary after eight decaying bodies were found at the facility and the co-owners were charged with corpse abuse. Lifetime announced in June it would produce a show called “Good Grief” about the Johnson Family Mortuary in Fort […]
