Two owners of a Houston funeral home have been charged with crimes several months after the bodies of a dozen deceased people were allegedly found decomposing in “inhumane” conditions.
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A Houston-area Army veteran's ongoing fight to obtain his funeral director license is yet another dispute that ex-Texas Funeral Service Commission staff point to as evidence of the agency's mismanagement.
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A Houston-area Army veteran's ongoing fight to obtain his funeral director license is yet another dispute that ex-Texas Funeral Service Commission staff point to as evidence of the agency's mismanagement.
The remains of more than 100 people have been removed from a Houston mortuary that’s been shuttered amidst an ongoing investigation by local police and a state commission.
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The Houston Police Department is working to identify family members of 89 people whose cremated remains were taken from Richardson Mortuary, which was ordered to be closed earlier this month by the Texas Funeral Service Commission because of the conditions inside the business. The bodies of 13 other deceased people have been transferred to other funeral homes.
A southwest Houston funeral home was ordered to suspend operations after a confrontation with a customer and allegedly mishandling remains.
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The order by the Texas Funeral Service Commission comes after law enforcement responded to a stabbing at the premises on Friday and discovered the conditions inside. A video posted on social media showed multiple bodies barely covered with a blanket or plastic wrap while in an open room with no air conditioning.
A Houston embalmer was arrested and charged after allegations that she mutilated the corpse of a registered sex offender, according to the Harris County Precinct One Constable's Office.
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A probable cause affidavit asserts Laudermilk stabbed the body of Charles Roy Rodriguez, 58, and mutilated his genitals with a scalpel. Rodriguez died in a Houston hospital in January of natural causes.
Two Houston residents last week were arrested and accused of running an unlicensed funeral home business and stealing money from families of the deceased.
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