Police opened an investigation after finding more than 30 bodies, some decomposing, inside a funeral home in South Indiana.
Police in the Louisville suburb of Jeffersonville responded to Lankford Funeral Home and Family Center Friday night and found 30 bodies, including some “in advanced stages of decomposition,” Major Isaac Parker said.
Said the county coroner’s office had reported a strong odor emanating from the building. Inside, officers wearing hazmat gear found bodies “in different locations around the building.”
Some of the bodies had been at the funeral home since March, Parker said. The police also found the cremated remains of 16 people.
“It was a very unpleasant scene,” Parker said. “Conditions were not good.”
The funeral home owner has been talking to police since last Friday, Parker said, and an investigation is ongoing.
The remains were taken to the office of the Clark County coroner for identification, and police asked anyone who might have information to contact the coroner’s office, according to KWQC.
A woman who sent her brother’s body to the funeral home for cremation after her death in April told WHAS-TV that she is still waiting for her remains. Tara Owen said that when she approached the funeral director, he replied that he was “dealing with a lot of things right now.”
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