Federal investigators found Hess falsified dozens of body donor consent forms
A former funeral home owner in Colorado has pleaded guilty to secretly dismembering corpses and selling their human parts, the New York Post reported.
Megan Hess, who ran the Sunset Mesa funeral home in Colorado and owned a human organ business called Donor Services, which was housed in the same building, admitted in federal court Tuesday, July 5, 2022, that she defrauded at least a dozen families who had paid to cremate their beloved members.
Instead of cremating the bodies, he collected heads, spines, arms and legs and then sold them, according to court records.
Prosecutors are asking that Hess, who previously pleaded not guilty, be sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison. Since her arrest in 2020 she has been free on bail. Her defense attorney has requested a lesser sentence for her.
In 2009, Hess and her mother, Shirley Koch, started a nonprofit donation services organization called the Sunset Mesa Funeral Foundation, where they donated body parts from cadavers, primarily for surgical training and other educational purposes. .
The office was charging clients over $1,000 for cremations that never happened! Many families received ashes mixed with the remains of different bodies, prosecutors said. A customer received a concrete mixture in lieu of their loved one’s remains.
Federal investigators found that Hess falsified dozens of body donor consent forms. A former employee accused her of making $40,000 by extracting and selling the gold teeth of some of the dead as part of the macabre scheme, according to court documents.
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