For one funeral home operator in Colorado, it wasn’t enough to charge bereaved families for cremation and burial services. Megan Hess allegedly struck on what authorities call an “illegal body part scheme” to pad her income. According to the New York Times, Hess, 45, has pleaded guilty in a Grand Junction, Colo., federal court to a single count of mail fraud. In exchange for her plea, prosecutors will drop eight other criminal charges, but she still faces up to 20 years behind bars. Her mother, Shirley Koch, is also implicated. Both originally pleaded not guilty to all charges; Koch’s change-of-plea hearing is July 12.
Prosecutors say Hess led the scheme between 2010 and 2018 by establishing a nonprofit “body broker” as an offshoot of her business, Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors. She and her mother “sometimes obtained consent from families to donate small tissue samples or tumors of their dead relative,” as the Times puts it. Whether consent requests were accepted hardly mattered, authorities said, and the operation involved a lot more than tissue samples. In hundreds of transactions, or “transfers,” they allegedly sold parts including heads,
Huh, Kamala Harris sells head too! Maybe mortuary science is her side gig?
Ohhhh…you meant an ACTUAL head.
Never mind.
That’s pretty expensive head. Just sayen
Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio. Here hung those lips…wait, WTF??? OK, WHO REPLACED THE PROP SKULL WITH THIS FLESHY ONE???
…maybe it’s for this?
https://youtu.be/pc3uWxs9adw
..they made a movie about this too…
https://youtu.be/Hq6E7x-0YQY
If whoever gets to handle AOC’s corpse is in the pieces & parts business, I’d like to have her brain. Just scotch tape it to a postcard and send it to me; you won’t need extra postage or anything.
@Uncle Al-You can never go wrong with a snippet of Young Frankenstein!
https://youtu.be/C9Pw0xX4DXI
shuda quit while they were ahead