Wow! A former Colorado funeral home owner has been recently sentenced to 20 years in a federal prison for selling body parts from over 500 corpses — and with the help of her mother!
Funeral Home Owner Sentenced To 20 Years In Federal Prison For Selling Body Parts From 500+ Corpses; And Her Mother Helped
It’s been reported that the funeral home director has been identified as 46-year-old Megan Hess. She has previously operated a facility called Sunset Mesa, as well as a body parts business called Donor Services. Both businesses were operated in the same building in Montrose, Colorado.
Between 2010 and 2018, Hess and her mother — 69-year-old Shirley Koch — dissected at least 560 corpses. It’s reported that the two women illegally sold body parts to medical training companies, which never knew that they were being illegally sold.
While Hess was sentenced to 20 years, her mother, Koch, has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for helping her daughter chop up the bodies.”
Hess and her mother were also caught frequently charging families upwards of $1,000 for cremation services that were never rendered. Instead, the pair would harvest body parts or prepare the entire cadavers to be sold illegally.
In July 2022, Hess pleaded guilty to fraud and received the maximum sentence allowed under the law in Colorado.
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Per prosecutor Tim Neff, “Hess and Koch used their funeral home at times to essentially steal bodies and body parts using fraudulent and forged donor forms. Hess and Koch’s conduct caused immense emotional pain for the families and next of kin.”
Prosecutors added that even when Hess and/or Koch were told they did not have permission to donate a family member’s body or body parts, they would go against their customers’ wishes.
Prosecutors said the pair would recover body parts or prepare the bodies to be sold anyway.
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