A former Colorado funeral home owner pleaded guilty to fraud after she sold body parts of the deceased without receiving consent from their families.
Hess and Koch founded a nonprofit organization called Sunset Mesa Funeral Foundation in 2009. The organization was a "body-broker service" operating out of the funeral home doing business selling body parts to third parties, authorities said.
The indictment said that, from 2010 through 2018, Hess and Koch charged customers at least $1,000 for cremations, many of which never happened. They also offered free cremations in exchange for a body donation. The families received ashes from bins mixed with the remains of various cadavers, prosecutors said. One customer was given a concrete mix as an alternative to their family member's ashes.
A former employee accused Hess of earning $40,000 by extracting and selling the gold teeth of some deceased individuals, court documents revealed.The two women also shipped bodies and body parts that had either tested positive for, or belonged to people who
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