A former funeral home operator in Colorado was sentenced to two decades behind bars on Tuesday for illegally dissecting 560 corpses and selling the parts without relatives’ consent. Megan Hess, 46, pleaded guilty to mail fraud in November under a deal with prosecutors, who dropped the other charges against her. Her 69-year-old mother, Shirly Koch, was sentenced to 15 years after admitting to mail fraud and aiding and abetting.
Attorney for Colorado Cole Finegan said after sentencing. The pair were accused of dissecting the bodies between 2010 and 2018, telling their victims’ families that their loved ones would be cremated. Instead, they shipped the parts to medical training companies, which were unaware the bodies had been fraudulently acquired. In some cases, the parts were hazardous, infected with HIV, as well as hepatitis B and C, even as Hess and Kock reassured their buyers the material was disease-free.
This is some macabre 1980s VHS low budget production storyline type of reality is what THIS! is. DAMN! How do humans malfunction in such hideous ways? 😕
I can’t even. 🤬
What do people do with human parts?
A modern day Burke and Hare (minus the murder) and it's classified as Mail Fraud. OK then.
Well good! What a horrific thing to do! She deserves it.
MrsTuttle2016 here you go
You can mail human body parts?
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