This Colorado funeral home operator would give an arm and a leg for some extra cash… your family member’s! According to the US Department of Justice, Megan Hess pleaded guilty to mail fraud and aiding and abetting on Tuesday — very mundane charges considering the decidedly extraordinary allegations against her.
She was accused of stealing and selling off body parts from the funeral hope she ran with her mother! Prosecutors said that for eight years, through 2018, the now-45-year-old allegedly stole hundreds of bodies or body parts that she sold to other institutions for medical or academic purposes.
She would allegedly hand over the human remains to third parties without familial consent, and would even ship bodies of people who died from infectious diseases.
It’s like a modern-day Burke and Hare! Hess’ alleged scheme was easy to execute, prosecutors said, because she ran Sunset Mesa Funeral Foundation, which arranged cremations, funerals, and burial — and also operated a body-broker service she called Donor Services.
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