Wholesome Mother-Daughter Funeral Home Operators Hiding a Twisted Secret

Twisted Scheme

Without families' knowledge or consent, Megan and Shirley were selling the deceased bodies of their loved ones—or individual torsos, limbs, and severed heads—to scientists, educators, and medical facilities around the country. In order to keep the ruse going, mourning families would receive the cremated remains of someone else entirely.

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