GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A Colorado funeral home operator accused of illegally selling body parts and giving clients fake ashes was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday by a federal court judge. U.S. authorities said that on dozens of occasions, Hess and her mother, Shirley Koch, who also pleaded guilty to mail fraud, transferred bodies or body parts to …
A 46-year-old woman who is the former owner of a funeral home in Colorado was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Tuesday for dissecting 560 corpses and selling body parts without permission. The accused, Megan Hess cheated the relatives of the dead and stole body parts using forged donor forms, officials told Reuters. She operated Sunset Mesa, a …
