Authorities say a funeral home operator and her mother transferred body parts for research without families' knowledge and gave clients fake ashes.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A Colorado funeral home operator accused of illegally selling body parts and giving clients fake ashes was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday by a federal court judge.
U.S. District Judge Christine Arguello in Grand Junction also sentenced Koch on Tuesday to 15 years in prison. Arguello sentenced the pair after victims testified about the pain they'd suffered under the scheme. Hess created a nonprofit organization in 2009 called Sunset Mesa Funeral Foundation as a body-broker service doing business as Donor Services, authorities said.
Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio Hess' attorney, Ashley Petrey, told the court Tuesday Hess was motivated by a desire to advance medical research."Eight years of repeated conduct of this nature is all the court needs to know about her history and character," Neff said.
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