Wholesome Mother-Daughter Funeral Home Operators Hiding a Twisted Secret

Striking a Goldmine

One former employee, Kari Escher, said that Shirley exhibited particularly morbid behavior. Shirley, who embalmed and dismembered the bodies, would pull teeth from a number of corpses to extract the gold in crowns and fillings, which paid for her family vacations to Disneyland in California. She often boasted this to Escher, who was horrified by Shirley's actions.

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The More You Know

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