A Colorado female who ran a funeralservice house pleaded guilty to scams this week after being implicated of taking and selling bodies and body parts, authorities stated.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado validated in a Tuesday declaration that Megan Hess, 45, pleaded guilty to one count of mail scams and assisting and abetting. The charges come after she “devised and carriedout a plan to take the bodies or body parts of hundreds of victims, and then offered those stays to victims getting the stays for clinical, medical, or academic functions,” according to the declaration.
The body parts and bodies were offered without the authorization of the deceased’s household, authorities validated.
Hess, who likewise worked with her mom, Shirley Koch, “met with households lookingfor cremation services, provided to cremate the decedents’ bodies, and offered the stays to the households,” according to a Department of Justice publication. They likewise charged a minimum of $1,000 for “cremations that typically did not takeplace.”
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Hess produced a not-for-profit company in 2009 called Sunset Mesa Funeral Foundation, which did service as Donor Services and which authorities called a “a body broker service.” Donor Services’ earnings mostly came from harvesting and marketing “purportedly contributed human stays, such as heads, upperbodies, arms, legs, or whole human bodies,” according to an indictment in the case.
According to the indictment, records kept by Hess and Koch consistedof created signatures and declares that a contribution was licensed, or no donor permission at all.
Hess and Koch got hundreds of thousands of dollars for remain