Colorado funeral home operators sentenced for selling body parts without permissionStory by Phil Helsel
4 January, 2023
Two Colorado funeral home operators who sold body parts or bodies in a scheme a prosecutor called “horrific” were sentenced to prison Tuesday, officials said.
Megan Hess, 46, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and her mother, Shirley Koch, 69, was sentenced to 15 years, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for District of Colorado said in a statement.
They operated Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, a city of around 20,000 in western Colorado, and stole and sold body parts or bodies between 2010 and 2018, prosecutors said.
In many cases the families were unaware, and in others they specifically declined to donate the remains of their loved ones, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
Cremated remains were returned to family members and represented to be their loved ones "when, frequently, that was not the case," the statement said.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/colorado-funeral-home-operators-sentenced-for-selling-body-parts-without-permission/ar-AA15Z1EQ