“If he didn’t kill her, what law did he break?”
My sister in the OSI worked a case where the visiting family of an airman had the family patriarch die while there. (Texas, as I recall.) They went to where the body was and were not stopped or challenged. They had no idea they were doing anything wrong. They loaded the man into the back of a pickup and took him home to lay him out in the family parlor. But along the way they got into a wreck. Nobody was seriously hurt, but there was an extra body...which had been embalmed. Apparently it is illegal to transport a body. But I’ll wager this case was unique. (Timeframe late ‘60’s.)
So I guess you need some sort of funeral type license in TX to transport bodies.