Ohio Funeral Home Worker Inappropriately Touched Corpse

H.H. Birkenkamp is owned by Houston-based Service Corporation International

Toledo, Ohio

Police in Toledo have arrested an employee of H.H. Birkenkamp Funeral Home, owned by Houston-based Service Corporation International (NYSE:SCI), for handling a corpse in a sexual manner. Lawrence J. Clement was taken into custody on Thursday. Another employee walked in and caught Clement involved in a sexual act with the corpse.

According to investigators, employees with the H.H. Birkenkamp Funeral Home called the 51-year-old victim's family members to report that one of their staff members had "had his way" with her corpse.

The funeral home reportedly offered to waive the $11,000 funeral fee if the family did not call police. The family rejected the funeral home's offer, contacted police and had the victim transferred to another funeral home.

Clement was booked into the Lucas County Jail and charged with abuse of a corpse.

Funeral Home: No Electricity, Bones on Roof and Decomposing Corpses

Chicago, Illinois

Family members and police were recently gathered outside of Carter Funeral Chapel in Chicago. This time, however, they were not on-hand to attend a funeral. Instead, they were demanding to know what has happened to their relatives remains after police found the funeral home in a 'state of disarray'.

Police first discovered deeply disturbing evidence outside of the funeral home. Bones were found on the roof and it was discovered that this particular funeral home had no working electricity. The funeral home had previously been shut-down after it was discovered that frozen water bottles were being used to preserve dead bodies inside.

Police said they found a back door off its hinges, confirmed no power or heating inside the building and bodies in ‘various states of preparation’ (otherwise meaning decomposed).