GA - Funeral home director arrested after 18 decomposing bodies found on his property - October 28, 2024

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Authorities said Chris Johnson, 39, is facing seventeen counts of abuse of dead body, according to a Georgia Bureau of Investigation press release.
 
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This happens all the time! I wonder if it's a financial problem or a problem with people that draws them towards this kind of business.
 
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This happens all the time! I wonder if it's a financial problem or a problem with people that draws them towards this kind of business.
Probably a combination of both. Remember the saying about when you "bite off more than you can chew" (overestimate your abilities or underestimate the difficulty of something). This happens a lot with any business. But I would think that a decent person would recognize when it's getting to be too much and take measures to prevent 18 rotting bodies from piling up. MOO.

This isn't the first time Georgia's had a funeral home scandal, but the state is more regulated than Colorado (for example) and it's happened nationwide.
 
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Probably a combination of both. Remember the saying about when you "bite off more than you can chew" (overestimate your abilities or underestimate the difficulty of something). This happens a lot with any business. But I would think that a decent person would recognize when it's getting to be too much and take measures to prevent 18 rotting bodies from piling up. MOO.

This isn't the first time Georgia's had a funeral home scandal, but the state is more regulated than Colorado (for example) and it's happened nationwide.
Yeah, Tri-state Crematory was in Georgia. It's probably the worst I've heard of besides the recent Colorado case. It was bad enough they activated DMORT to handle and identify the remains.

It seems awful to say that in this case at least it's 'only' eighteen, not hundreds, but that was my first thought. It's eighteen families who have to handle the shock and trauma and grief, and that's appalling.

MOO
 
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Yeah, Tri-state Crematory was in Georgia. It's probably the worst I've heard of besides the recent Colorado case. It was bad enough they activated DMORT to handle and identify the remains.

It seems awful to say that in this case at least it's 'only' eighteen, not hundreds, but that was my first thought. It's eighteen families who have to handle the shock and trauma and grief, and that's appalling.

MOO
There is an ongoing case in the UK as well in Hull. 35 rotting bodies, 35 families and unidentifiable ashes. Absolutely horrific
I’m sure there were financial irregularities involved as well
 
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There is an ongoing case in the UK as well in Hull. 35 rotting bodies, 35 families and unidentifiable ashes. Absolutely horrific
I’m sure there were financial irregularities involved as well
Yeah, generally these cases at a minimum involve fraud, because the bodies being found the way they are proves they're not providing the services they are claiming to, and may even be engaging in deception by providing fake or mixed or someone else's cremains, for example, to families.

MOO
 
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This happens all the time! I wonder if it's a financial problem or a problem with people that draws them towards this kind of business.
It does?!? :oops: That is so upsetting and traumatic!
 
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5 December Court Date

Twelve(12) of Eighteen(18) Bodies Now Identified

Georgia Bureau of Investigation:

WALB dot Com:


DMORT = Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team
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