Body Rots In Hearse After Family Fails To Pay

[OhioChick]

Woman, 52, Died In November 2007

POSTED: 7:54 pm EST February 25, 2009

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- An Alabama funeral director could lose his license if convicted on a felony charge of abusing a corpse.

Police in the town of Gadsden said Harold Watson left the decaying body of a woman inside a locked hearse after her relatives failed to pay the bill.

Fifty-two-year-old Edna Kathleen Woods died of natural causes in November 2007.

Investigators said Watson stored the corpse at his funeral home for more than a year but decided to move it about two months ago when he couldn't locate the family.

After neighbors complained, officers found the remains this week in a cardboard box inside a locked hearse.

In cases of unclaimed bodies, funeral directors can have counties dispose of the remains. And police say Wright should have known better.

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/18797045/detail.html

:wtf:

[sui generis]

1. definitely a WTF there

on the part of all involved parties.

[Frustratedlady]

2. How disgusting. He should lose his license, for sure.

What is wrong with people? So many bizarre happenings, of late. It doesn't even come close to actions of a human being.

He will probably lose his hearse, too. I can't imagine there is a disinfectant that will get the odor out of the upholstery.

[TahitiNut]

3. It wasn't just a body. It was a hostage.

Harold Watson should serve time in prison for that misdeed.

[WI_DEM]

4. Apparently he must have a fleet of hearses that he didn't need that one

but he should have followed procedures.

[Lost in CT]

5. Well that hearse isn't usable again. I think he forgot about it.

Shame on both parties involved.