Posted on 07/06/2022 7:40:58 AM PDT by Morgana
A bouffant-haired Colorado funeral home director has admitted selling corpses to medical researchers, then lying to families that the remains had been cremated.
Megan Hess, entered the plea to the charge of fraud at a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Gordon Gallagher in Grand Junction, Colorado, on Tuesday.
Despite her admission, Hess initially remained arrogant in court Tuesday, branding the case against herself a travesty. Moments later, she admitted the allegations were true.
FBI agents found that Hess forged dozens of body-donor consent forms at her Sunset Mesa funeral home, with the fraudster allegedly giving one family an urn of concrete dust, instead of their loved one's ashes.
In court documents, a former employee also said Hess of earning $40,000 by extracting and selling the gold teeth of some of the deceased.
She is said to have sold the remains to medical research firms and colleges which use the bodies to train medical and dental students.
Hess charged $1,000 per cremation - only to pass on body parts to buyers, and also offered poor families free undertaking services, only to steal their remains.
Hess, whose mom Shirley Koch is also accused of being a body harvester, was previously accused of spending that money on a trip to Walt Disney World.
Gallagher scheduled Hess, who had previously pleaded not guilty, to be sentenced in January, with the prosecution calling for 12 to 15 years in prison.
Hess, 45, admitted on Tuesday that through her funeral home, located in the town of Montrose in the western part of the state, she defrauded at least a dozen families seeking cremation services for deceased relatives.
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This is just so bizarre. It should be a song, or a TV show, or something to emphasize how weird it is.
Heads would be rolling....cause I would be going literal ape-sh*t on these SOBs. Bet.
“Was that wrong ?”
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“Did i do that?”
“Oh, that’s silly, I’m going to DisneyWorld”.
Oh, my!
Maybe Disney will make a family movie about this episode. They would change the undertaker to be a white guy.
A dental hygienist at our practice told me about a patient with terminal cancer whose wife wanted his gold teeth pried out at the funeral home after he died. She said no.
Modern day Burke and Hare - or Rudolf Hess and Ilse Koch.
Regards,
There would be teeth all over the floor and they won’t be from the dead.
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