Sick and Twisted Funeral Stories
Those calm and gentle funeral directors are not always as nice as you think.
Published 9 years ago in Wtf
Those calm and gentle funeral directors are not always as nice as you think.
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Bobby Wilks was a funeral director in Tennessee for over 20 years. At one ceremony, pall bearers noticed Wilks had lowered a vault into the grave but it had no lid, which cost the family $375. Soon families came wondering what Wilks did to their deceased, so 30 bodies were exhumed. Ten coffins were stuffed with garbage, two were on their side without lids, and one guy was buried with no coffin at all. Wilks got 28 years in prison.
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In the 70's Joseph Damiano ran a cremation and body-transport company in Florida. But lawsuits poured in quickly, with one woman claiming her husband's ashes were mixed with someone else's. Another woman whose baby had died found that ashes were added to the urn because "babies don't leave much in the way of ashes".
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Not only did Damiano not even show up to his civil suits, allegations also included him dumping ashes in the parking lot instead of storing them. To add insult to injury, despite being ordered to pay 39 million in damages, no money could be claimed, since Damiano had placed all business and property under other people's names.
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A search found he didn't even have a license to operate a business, and most times, would sell bodies to embalming schools for about $100 a piece - this included those of Jewish clients, whose religion forbids them from embalming their dead. Today Damiano is trying his hand at scamming people again, with a new cremation company in another state. He is already accused of holding ashes for "ransom".
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In 1998, a funeral staff in Kentucky suffered a break-in. They eventually checked inside the casket of 9-year-old Brittany Rae Bradley, who had died of cancer and had a service earlier that evening. Turns out the robber had stolen something - her underwear. Her cousin, 31-year-old Mark Calebs, was accused, and police found the missing garment in his trailer. He was charged accordingly.
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In 1986, Anthony Parisi died at 83. But the next day, employees at the funeral home opened his casket to find his head was missing. Police claim someone must have broke in and cut it off with a razor or scalpel. Except nothing in the building was stolen or disturbed, and there were no signs of a break-in. Parisi's head was never found.
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