Sick find: 31 bodies found at funeral home, some of them are decomposing

Police in the Louisville suburb of Jeffersonville responded to Lankford Funeral Home and Family Center on Friday evening and found 31 bodies, including some “in the advanced stages of decomposition,” Maj. Isaac Parker said.

He said the county coroner’s office had reported a strong odor emanating from the building. Inside, officers wearing hazmat gear found bodies “in different places around the building.” 

Some of the bodies had been at the funeral home since March, Parker said.
 Police also found the cremated remains of 16 people.

A woman who sent her brother’s body to the funeral home for cremation after he died in April told WHAS-TV that she is still waiting for his remains. Tara Owen said when she reached out to the funeral director, he responded that he was “dealing with a lot at the moment.”

There is a chance that people were on to something wretched occurring.. Read this GOOGLE REVIEW from PRIOR to the event becoming known to police and receiving national headlines:

Do not trust this place. This man took my money, promised me my fathers remains and then gave them to my brothers, one of which is wanted by the state of Ohio. This man rejected all my phone calls for two months and exactly two months after my dad had passed, finally answered my call and told me he had given the ashes away. THIS PLACE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED. The man was rude to me on the phone and wouldn’t even tell me when in the past two months my fathers remains had been picked up. I’m 2k miles away on the west coast and he told me he would ship them to me since i had paid for the cremation. This place wouldn’t even post an obituary for my father even through I had written and submitted one (w a pic) for their website. They won’t even upload my dads pic on the website.