(CNN)Former Colorado funeral house operators steal hundreds of human bodies or body parts to those who purchased the remains I pleaded guilty to selling it. For scientific, medical or educational purposes, according to prosecutors.
Hearing of changes to Koch's petition is scheduled for July 12, according to court records.
CNN solicited comments from Hess' chief lawyer Daniel Schaffer and Koch's lawyer Martha Howitz Esquesen.
Hess and Koch, who ran the Sunset Mesa funeral director, met with a sad family and offered to offer a burial service of over $ 1,000, but in 2020 from the Justice Department. According to the news release, much never happened.
Meganjes pleaded guilty on Tuesday.
Instead, Hess is part of the human body and body from the funeral hall in Montrose, Colorado, through a project she created called Donor Services. Shipped. Broker service.
"In at least dozens of cases, Hess and Koch do not follow the wishes of the family and discuss or permit the donor service to transfer the body of the decedent or part of the body to a third party. I didn't get it, "DOJ said.
And in some cases the family agreed to donate, Hess and Koch sold the wreckage of those corpses beyond the family's permission.
In addition, according to DOJ, "not often", they delivered to their families what they claimed to be the remains of the burial.