31 decomposing bodies found at this funeral home
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My estranged 58 year old husband died in Florida on January 6, 2022. He was cremated for free by the county and I paid the funeral home the cost of sending him home to Illinois. It was $150. The funeral home staff was so kind and helpful. This is a shame about these people and my heart goes out to the families. .
When my mother in law was murdered we had no money and couldn’t pay for anything, nothing at all but we were lucky. Thre funeral home relaxed the laws and worked with us and she had a decent funeral. It took a. Couple of years to pay it off, but we did it somehow.
Also, I worked. As a night receptionist at a different funeral home when I was 20 and this one was horrid I know they never worked with anyone to pay for servises. What they did with the bodies, I have now idea, but I completely understand the smell Lamont described I used to have to keep a jar of Vicks in my purse in hopes it would help with the sickening aroma didn’t help much but anything beats nothing. I hated that job and hated some of the things I experienced there but it was a job!
Have no idea what tjey did with the bodies forgive the mistakes. After years of using an android, I had to buy a new phone. It’s an IPhone, and I’m having a little bit of trouble learning how to operate it.
I need to invest in a stylus!
No one asked Lisa
@@martiwest2594 No worries, you did fine! 👍🏻
Part of welfare money should be deducted from their monthly checks to pay for their freeloading deaths. Why should the rest of the ones who work and pay taxes pay for this. Someone was paid to clean up the mess and the taxpayers are the ones stuck with the bill.
You can't even die without being robbed. It's disgusting.
If the smell is that bad outside I can't even imagine what it's like inside.
An Indiana funeral director pleaded guilty Friday to dozens of counts of felony theft after 31 decomposing bodies and 17 cremains were found at his funeral home last year. Lankford pleaded guilty to 43 counts of theft where the value of the property is between $750 and $50,000. The theft charge was for failing to complete the funeral services he was paid for. He faces multiple lawsuits from people whose loved ones were among the bodies or cremains.
Randy Lankford, owner of Lankford Funeral Home and Family Center in Jeffersonville, will pay $46,000 in restitution to 53 families and faces a proposed sentence of 12 years - four years in prison and eight years of home incarceration
I know posting that 20 different sets of cremains were found in a funeral home sounds salacious but many families pay for the cremation and then don't go back to pick up the cremains. Some people don't want the ashes or cremains in their homes.
Thank you so much for this information, funny I just posted a story asking lamont for a follow up, but you have done that.
Thanks again from Australia 🇦🇺 😊
There is no excuse not to go ahead and cremate a body of a deceased person. The state is supposed to pay for a cremation if no one claims the body. This place should lose its license.
Don't stay there too long Lamont. As always you present the most thought provoking stories. Safety first!
@Ekaterina Kozhevnikova amen!! living people are the real danger. not the dead ones.
@@ekaterinakozhevnikova8023 If you can dodge the crack heads and the dirty cops you've done well.....
I'm a local. The lady didn't step inside. The funeral director had been avoiding calls and canceling appointments with families to get their loved ones remains back. The funeral home was reported to police because of the smell by the residents who lived next door. The AC went out at the funeral home and the neighbors started smelling the decomp and they reported it.
Thanks for the info. Would be very interested in how the details come out. I can’t imagine hanging around that building with the smell even if for the director. Sounds like something went very wrong pretty quickly.
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I was wondering if a power outage or something was the reason why that many bodies seemed to decompose so suddenly. Thanks for clarifying. The people living in those apartment buildings behind the funeral home were probably the first ones to get hit by the stench. 🙁
Oh I see.
@@SomeKindOfHalfsie not to mention? It’s been extremely hot. I’m about 2.5 hours away in Western Kentucky, but we’ve already had heat indexes over 100F.
As a native American , I'm so glad we have burial insurance for my tribe, so we don't have to worry about the final payment and it pays for everything,from pick-up and drop-off and embalming and funeral and costs if flowers and dinner and stuff, it helps out
Burial insurance is a great idea for everyone.
May the spirits watch over you
Tribe lol it's 2022 bud
Hello.. the tribe helps with a 3rd of the funeral cost and the family/friends come together every night since the death to donate money. Until there's enough, then the funeral happens.
*In my tribe I mean.. sorry
@@douchebottle be respectful. We owe a lot to Native Americans.
I’m from this area and saw that on the local news and I was blown away by how horrific this must be, plus the summer heat! Hate this for the families. Be safe out there Lamont!
I had a taste of what death smells like. Back in '05 I was living in veteran housing in Houston (it use to be a Super 8 motel and they converted the rooms to SROs for vets). That summer there was a foul stinch not too far from my room was and I was wondering "what the hell is that?" While they were renovating some of the rooms to SROs there were dumpster bins out in the parking lot for the construction and also there were a bunch of stray cats hanging around there. I thought maybe a cat got in one of the bins and died. Nah, the smell was stronger than a dead animal. This was going on for 3 weeks- the smell. It turns out a dude died just 2 doors down from me and he was in there the whole time. They finally removed him, I saw them wheel the gurney with the body bag past my window. He was dead for 3 friggin weeks. That smell you can never forget. And the sad thing is, nobody noticed he was dead or checked in on him. Death is death but to lay there in your place for weeks rotting away? That's terrible
You would think someone from the staff would've been knocking on his door, for motel service, or at the very least, would have noticed the smell before the 3 weeks went by!
@@kevinmalone3210 it wasn't a motel anymore. It was single room apartments for veterans, so therefore there was no staff. If it were still a motel, he wouldn't have been there that long
@@kevinmalone3210 That's what I thought, what about the other people there's always staff to do maintenance etc
It's hard I know in this world of being "cautious" about strangers, but seniors and single older adults should have someone that could call them and check on their health and well being. As a Vet, isn't there a caseworker or health care provider that should have checked on him... I'm probably wrong, and unless there's an appointment involved, probably not. 😒 Sad.
@@lensquires6580 it's independent living. And the man was not elderly he was middle aged, roughly 40s or 50s. But apparently he suffered from seizures and that's probably what happened. He more than likely had a seizure while sleeping. But once again, it was independent living. They ran the place just like any other apartment place
We lost my daughter at 20 years old of Fentanyl. Her father paid for the service and cremation for about $4500. That was almost 6 years ago. I can’t imagine what it is these days. It was a nice service and very respectful. Over 200 attended. I could go on, but I won’t. My baby girl Shania. 😢
God Bless you and your daughter in Heaven.
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I’m sorry!
Very sorry for your loss. So sad to lose your own child,especially that young. Rip. 😞😢
So sorry for ur loss.
So disturbing. As a German I have no real idea about the laws in the US but there should be a law for free creamtion for those who really cannot afford a funeral for their loved ones. No matter what country, of course.
The German people are a noble people
Here in the Uk bodies who are unclaimed or family unable to afford it are dealt with through Public Health arrangements. Nobody is ever left in the indignity of not having a funeral.
@@TheSuperHarrygeorge its similar here. as far as I know the social welfare office pays then for the funeral or cremation. I would rather love a „cheap“ funeral than end like this one day.
States will cremate. It's uneducated people that don't understand that. If you can't afford a funeral, don't send it to a funeral home. The state will have it taken care of.
There is, if a body is left it will eventually be cremated and buried in a paupers grave in the US
I was hoping you got this story! I live the next town over.Great job covering this. Thank you!
As you said, there is a lot of drug activity in that area. It is also mostly lower income. It has gone downhill in the past 30 years. Very sad, but I'm thankful it's been exposed.
I’m originally from Floyd county but now live in Harrison county.
@@rebeccabentley7012 Nice to meet you neighbor. I'm over in Charlestown. Escaped Jeffersonville some 20 years ago. Lol
Harrison Co, too!
So sad, probably fentanyl? That is an epidemic across the country because it causes many overdoses
@@charliedallachie3539 with that many bodies, I'm sure there were multiple causes of death
You are very brave Lamont! My mom was a secretary for the corners office in Cook County Chicago in the 1940s. She lasted 6 months there
Great to see you back in Indiana, Lamont. So sorry this happened to these families.
That’s disgusting, disturbing and sad 🤮
That is such a disrespectful thing to do. It's truly despicable.
And Casey Anthony's Mother and Father said the trunk of her car smelled like a decomposing body and the Defense said no...It was an old partially eaten pizza!!!
I still don't know how she got away with murdering her daughter. It's insane!
I will never understand this. All the lies that Casey told and the evidence they had against her, justice was not served for this little girl. How does she sleep at night, your own flesh and blood. Fly high baby girl. We have not forgot you. ❤️❤️🙏🏾🙌🏽🥲🥲
Her father said "Iknows what decomposition smells like. It a distinct odor, and that what I smelled that day." That POS belongs in prison. Not out on the street.
If you haven't seen Marcia Clark investigating on A&E you should if I understand correctly the ball was dropped.
I know what decomp of a body smells like an it’s not like an old pizza!!!
That’s smell stays on you!
I remember having to burn my clothes and taking 2 showers!
How can they leave the board there? That is a health hazard.
Great job covering the story
Not normally, it isn't. See Ask a Mortician.
I was wondering the same thing 😮 about the board stretcher there !
Dear Jesus! That’s horrible!
Yes Lamont when a body decompose the smell stays for a while and that’s only one person, I can’t imagine 30 bodies. Thank you Lamont it’s good to know what happens to your love ones if you can’t come out with the money. Very sad!
They need to rip that place down and decontaminate that whole place. They need to get rid of that board ecf ecf. Omg omg. Horrible to leave that
@@sharonbrown6595 That is why there is boards up, it is likely that it is planned to be condemned.
When performing autopsies, it has been stated as fact, that even taking the longest showers with repeated scrubbing, did not eliminate the stench of putrification from their clothes and their hair.
Knowing this, I can't imagine any part of that building being saved! The "putrification" stage just gets worse without embalming and refrigeration and it sinks deeply into all structures and surfaces.
I would be shocked if they didn't just tear the place down. Those poor people and their families.
Now imagine that smell, plus the sound of distant fireworks going off. Salutes and then burp fire skyburst mortars. War zone experience.
But, why?? How do the bodies still smell if they are refrigerated!? I'm confused, I thought they kept corpses in a refrigerated cooler? Atleast, that's what I thought. I just don't see how there is such a bad smell, unless they were just out in the open.
Very disturbing! I hope those people will be laid to rest with respect now 🙏 funeral costs are very expensive, pre pay if you can 💗
SO true.
I used to work for the service that pick up bodies for the San Bernardino County Coroner's office. Decomp is very specific stench. How disrespectful to the deceased. A terrible stain on the profession.
Respectfully. Why does a funeral need to cost $10k that's insane
My daddy’s (12.28.1958- 07.25.2022) funeral was over 11k! I asked why and they told me things have increased in price due to Covid. My daddy’s service was a simple as you could get but it’s what he chose so I respected his wishes.
It's getting well over 10k now, funeral home where I'm at has a funeral every other day it seems so you know they're making between 30,000 and 50,000 a week, I don't know how much the materials cost but I would say they're making pretty good
It doesn’t.
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overhead and probably state regulation bullshit and then you have bidenflation and the cost of materials and logistics and the actual human services. You have to consider the cost of the land youre burying on etc. Why is cremation thousands of dollars? Because bullshit thats why.
Wtf? A body board and fluids??? Nice clean up job city.
Hey Lamont. If a family can't afford a formal funeral; direct cremation is a cheaper alternative. It varies but usually between $1,000-$1,300 depending on funeral home and any extras you add. When my older brother passed in 2016 we did a direct cremation in NYC for $1,100 at that time. A memorial service was held a month later and his ashes were buried beside my mom in NC the next year. Families have to follow up on what's happening with their loved one at the funeral home.
U can always GoFundMe my aunt did someone give her $3000 she was asking for $1000 to cremate my uncle
@@kyieberry
The city cremate the body too
Sorry for you and your family's losses
@@sda-clips sorry for you and your family's loss thar's good she got more help than she even asked for
Here in Illinois you don't even have to go through a funeral home anymore for cremations.
We called a local crematorium when my dad died in 2020 & they were there in about an hour & off he went. We picked up his cremains the next day, in the urn, & took him into the new grocery store that was being built when he got really sick. He wanted to check it out when it opened & never got the opportunity.
So, we took him in with us! Lol!
Wherever he is, we knew he was laughing his ass off too!
My family has always been warped, but we had a lot of fun & laughs. But, mostly love.
Lamont have you done the story about the crematorium in Noble Ga? They found 350 decomposing bodies there. It was BAD stuff. It happened in 2002. They said the oven tore up and they never got it fixed. They were throwing the bodies out in the woods behind the funeral home and someone was walking their dog and the dog ran out in the woods and brought back a human bone (yes its unbelievable), but it happened. They were buying sacks of concreate and giving that to the families in lieu of the actual ashes.
I did it I believe I made a mistake on the video so I have to see if I can edit it correctly
@@LamontAtLarge would love to see it
I remembered that when I read about this funeral home yesterday. Not sure what happened to those people who did that years ago though. It's beyond horrific they did that.
I live in South Carolina and i remember that story.
I actually live not to far from
I doubt that building could be used for anything else now… you’d never get rid of the smell… poor people!! RIP to all the deceased found there..
Not to mention it's haunted.
They have products that can clean and removed the smell completely except for the smell of bill gates and Joe biden.
The building will have to be demolished. You’re never going to get it back in useable condition.
May those poor souls rest in peace, and their loved ones find some form of comfort, closure AND justice. 🙏🏼🕊️💕🕊️🙏🏼
Most funeral homes have a plot where they bury bodies that have not been claimed.
It's called a paupers grave!
Mass grave of bodies, usually cremated and buried all together!!
This is absolutely heartbreaking!!
pauper's grave
@@adrienne5791
Damn auto correct!! Lol
I believe that would be illegal to do something like this. You can't just bury human remains anywhere.
@@kevinmalone3210 it’s not just anywhere, there’s dedicated plots (“cemeteries”) for these specific cases
VERY sad.
My best friends mom passed last month and they didn’t have the funds to pay so their church had the funeral for free, they do that from time to time. She wasn’t prepared well, her long beautiful hair was in knots and makeup wasn’t used… out of all the funerals I’ve been to, she looked the worst and I know it hurts her daughter, had I have known I would’ve gladly brushed her hair and put makeup on her, it’s so heartbreaking 💔
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I put make up on my Grandmother. I did her hair and painted her nails. The mortuary did a horrible job with her so I took it in myself to make her look as best I could. Appearances were very important to my Grandma
@@cindysemblante4411 Miss Cindy, I totally get you. My nephew died two days before his 50th birthday last year,after a 17 year long battle with Leukemia. He looked, as a white man, exactly like the cancer victims you see on TV and TH-cam. The girl that did his makeup put this ridiculous pinkish lipstick on the man. I tried to ignore it, but finally asked his Mom, my sister, if I could wipe that off him. She said “please” and handed me a tissue to get the job done. Sorry for being so long winded, but death and raping of the funeral industry just touches me in a different level. I’m personally having a green funeral. Die, shrouded, placed in the ground, covered and return to the earth. Amen.🙏
@@cindysemblante4411 That’s exactly what my grandmothers best friend did, she passed with pancreatic cancer and she didn’t want anyone else touching her. He did such an amazing job, we all still talk about how beautiful she looked 25 years later. ❤️
@@ladybelle6771 that's exactly what I'm having a green burial after watching Ask a Mortician vlog on green burial I was hook.
OMG how horrible....I can’t imagine what those families must feel after finding out how their loved one was “mis”treated..and to see the deplorable conditions human beings were subjected to is mortifying..
When I lost my husband suddenly in November - the loss and the pain were paralyzing (& still are) -- I thank God he was in the hands of a compassionate, reputable respectful funeral home.
Thank you Lamont for enduring this horrific story..
Gurl that name tag is priceless 😂🤭....I love it on a heavier note I'm sorry for your loss😔🙏
Lamont - I never ever thought about it from that perspective. The funeral was stiffed and not paid for their services for some of those bodies. I know something I did not know before.
@@lisaapp839 I didn't think about it either til he shared that perspective. It's sad that the families couldn't afford it, but I can only imagine what it was like for the workers having to be there and smell that their whole shift
I have been working in funeral service for 25 years, we as a society need to have a real talk about death. Until we do and we find ways to remedy this problem, things like this will continue to happen. The funeral director can't just dispose of the body when someone doesn't pay or is indigent. At the same time the Medical Examiner won't take the body back because the funeral home signed for the body so now it's their problem. When does the Medical Examiner decide to get involved? when 30 bodies pile up and people complain. Who's responsible? I will tell you who. #1 is the funeral industry and the National Funeral Directors Association, both refusing to address the issue or come up with real solutions, #2 the Medical Examiner for not stepping in or talking about this problem even though they know it exists and #3 the law makers for not changing the laws and regulations that cause this to occur in the first place. Until society is ready to deal with this and have a real talk about death, not the sugar-coated BS version either, this will continue to go on.
Why don't people pay their bills, then? Just want a free burial and leave the corpse.
Get educated, save, invest and trade skills and money will be there. Don't have kids, either, if you can afford the 300k+ to raise them.
Just recently 91 bodies were found in a funeral home in Penrose COLORADO.
I can understand the situation you mentioned. When a funeral home is stuck with such bodies, can they not just cremate them? I know there's cost involved in that but at least the bodies can then be stored in a sanitary manner until disposition can be resolved.
At the Funeral Home/Cemetery, owned by the same owners, I worked at we would cremate if a body was unclaimed. We would then hold the remains. If the family came for them they could pay for services rendered or if not the cremated remains would become a case for the coroner and we had a section of the cemetery that was for unclaimed remains. Absolutely no excuse for not at the very least cremating. Somebody definitely dropped the ball here. So sad.
So sad, what has happened to our Nation? As Lamont says, "Peace Out" Great Job Lamont.
I'm studying to be a mortician, and we have a cooler for the bodies to help prevent some of the decomposition while we work on preparations. Yes, the funeral industry is expensive; most people want a funeral and burial. It's also our job to offer cheaper options, like cremation. Something like this shouldn't have happened and is a huge safety issue for the funeral workers and families involved.
One day l wanna own a funeral with my house connected but you wouldn’t be able to enter the funeral home part from the main part of the house …. I wanna be a mortician so bad it’s a huge goal , I’m already an ordained minister which i can do funerals like speak and stuff .
I’m hoping some day I’ll have my funeral home / house one day !
support green / natural burials
@@heatherthomas1239 omg I grew up in an old apartment above a funeral home! It was definitely a huge learning experience. You could hear everything. I i used to work in the industry for a while but just had to get out over time. I hope you get your funeral home/house one day! If only for the right reasons and not some weird fetish lmao
@@Nell_Isabel well I’m not a freak and death ain’t fetish to me !!!! Since l was a kid it’s always been a goal of my to be a mortician . Plus i would everything right ! I would also love to have a cemetery as well , a pet cemetery there are so many people cemeteries. I have a plan and a goal and it will l all be done right .
I left instructions to put me in a cardboard box, cremate my remains and scatter the ashes. Why do we want to take up real estate, pay a fortune for an elaborate casket, then decompose slowly?
This is just so sad all the way around. My heart goes out to the families of the deceased. Thank you for going there Lamont. 💔
That's wild. I'm right in Louisville and had not heard about this.
You are always so respectful.thank you for all you do.stay safe and God Bless .
I saw a story where a person said they had a funeral there and their loved one smelled like a dead animal . The funeral homes should be forced to have large freezers as part of the licensing.
So disturbing. I can’t believe that there aren’t an laws across the board that would ensure that the remains of those that passed on are not sitting in limbo for weeks or month’s on end. Everyone regardless of who there might have been while alive, certainly does not deserve to be left to rot in a over crowded storage area. Mostly everyone that has passed deserves respect and dignity regardless of their families ability to pay. Also the biological hazards involved with decomposition are troubling in this situation. Our government needs to block grant’s that can be used for service’s for those that are no longer with us. So incredibly sad. May all of those people be laid to rest 🕊
We have nothing in the US. We can't even provide healthcare for the living.
So you would be upset if a pedophile died and was allowed to rot and be disrespected? You said NOBODY deserves it.
@@acertainshape but Obama care.......
I agree, I think our state in South Dakota they will pay for the funeral home services which it should be. Maybe they will enforce the law after seeing this?
@michaelvoorhees, Thank you for bringing up the pedo subject. No, I absolutely do not condone that since I have a relative that was assaulted by one. However, I am a God fearing woman and was thinking in term’s of desecrating a body, which in this case already has been done. I truly believe that when a person dies, they will have their judgement day. Good day.
Wow, that's pitiful. Thanks for taking one for the team. Enjoyed yesterday's Livestream, looking forward to the video about the grave that you finally found in that cemetery 🌞🕊️
400K! congrats lamont! thank you for what you do for these families who may not have a voice.
WHAT A SHAME! I was never able to open my Funeral Home, Here they have a business and flushed it! Total Disgrace to do such a thing.
Lamont you are the BEST for tackling this Stinky and uncomfortable topic! They get you COMING and GOING and they even stick it to your survivors on the way OUT!
Back in 2000 or so a funeral director in North Georgia got caught piling bodies in a side building. Dozens. Then so called cremation ashes were found out to be cement. He got jail time for fraud the bodies taken care of and the funeral home buildings torn down.
bro chill
Thank you Lamont you are a brave man to go that close. Nice to see your channel growing I hope you get many more subscribers. You put a lot of work in these videos and I appreciate it.
Hey Lamont, thanks for telling us and showing us this horrible situation!!! May the Lord give these families strength during this tough time”…. 🙏🏽💔
Lamont, you make it real & tell it like it is. Thank you for your time & stories...
The oh - dear is definitely memorable!
I did an article on this funeral home owner who had done a lot for the community. To get the full impact of what each component did I experienced it all, pickup’s to lipstick.
It’s been more than 20 years and I still recall that terrible smell.
Another good one Lamont.
I could not cope with this happening to my loved one. Its heartbreaking.
Thanks for explaining the funeral home process! It’s understandable how this can happen. I hopes this sheds like on a problem which needs to be fixed!
Maybe the government should pass a law making funerals more affordable for families!
I won't hold my breath... Should be options, and there are, but none of them are free, yet the most simple aren't too bad - for most of us. About the cheapest cremation is about $500 usd, and then one buys the box or urn or whatever they are called and can spread the ashes in the sea or elsewhere.
@@davidburroughs2244 They don't need to be "free" just more affordable for families. Many people just get by paycheck to paycheck. Not everyone can afford insurance to pay for funerals.
It’s insane… here in England we have state funerals for folks and families like this, and any money that can be reclaimed from the deceaseds belongings is used to “pay it off” it never fully covers the cost, but it prevents this.
It would help if funeral homes weren't allowed to charge so much money in the first place!
They could impose a low simple tax, so everybody pays. Then that steps in and pay people who need it and some may get less. The social democratic way of thinking. People helping each other through paying taxes. …. If you divide it up, it is really not a lot pr tax year that should be needed. Since it will accumulate.
I started watching your channel when you were at 34 thousand subscribers. So happy for your success! Much luck for the future. I will keep watching your channel.
Thank you for explaining
Lamont!
You are so right. If you're ever unfortunate to smell it you will never forget it and you will know it if you have to smell it again.
Omg. Hope these people face charges. I've never heard this story before. Another great job bro. Love ya be safe.
It happens more than one would ever think it would...funeral homes get behind and/or greedy and this is the result...I took a job remodeling a funeral home once in Georgia way out in the sticks...there was a building on the property that the owners absolutely forbade any of us to go near, much less enter...one morning about 2 am some local kids playing with a rifle shot up the windows in the overhead garage door...they didn't realize (or didn't care) that we were working in the main building...we went out with our own firearms and apprehended two of them and held them for the cops...they came and took them to their parents...anyways, this is where things take a left turn...I went back to the building to board up the windows and I could smell the faint odor of decomp...I thought maybe a dead cat or something was close by...I went ahead and boarded up the windows, but the smell was getting worse...while I was finishing up, the owner showed up and started raising hell with me...he was carrying on so loud that my partners heard him in the main building about 50 yards away...he was threatening and cussing me out and getting uncomfortably close...my guys pinned him down asked why he was so upset...well, we found out...the building housed a giant cooler where they kept their unclaimed customers and the owner couldn't afford the electricity to keep it running...instead of trying to find an alternative to power it, he just pulled the breakers and sealed it up, thinking that the smell couldn't escape...when the kids shot up the place, they punched holes in the wall of the cooler...we called the law and told them what we found out and they showed up and proceeded to give us grief about it...the owner was best buddies with the mayor...since we already knew about the situation, they offered us an insane amount of money to clean up the cooler...most disgusting thing I've ever done for money...I did have to ask him why he just didn't pay the power bill instead...that was 30 years ago and he has still not answered me...I don't think that what we did was legal, but I do know that I needed the money for my own bills...
The story only broke last week!!!
I understand both sides a funeral home can’t just have bodies piling up decaying but at the same time I believe they got tired of giving away services with out fair compensation, I believe they were constantly dealing with young people who were victims of violence because of their lifestyle and parents who didn’t think to put insurance on their children who wanted to live the thug life and then they as Lamont said had young ones who OD’d on opioids and the like. So what are they to do. I believe the funeral home should pay 25-35% of the and the fines etc. and the families of the 31 victims should be liable for the rest because it’s not all the funeral home fault unless they got paid and just didn’t properly care for the deceased in which case they should pay 100% of everything
Absolutely disgusting disgraceful... I knew guy years ago that told me he worked at a funeral home & stated that there was previous employee that worked there was having intimacy with dead women of all ages, he was fired & arrested but goes to show that there are even nutjobs whom work in these funeral parlors that have no respect for the dead even for the living..
I'm from Indiana, I can't believe I didn't hear about this! Absolutely crazy, tragic....😥😠
Please b careful Lamont🙏🙏
Dude your description alone was enough for me to get a queasy feeling! I've never watched a TH-cam video before that I was also able to smell at the same time!
Flash back to 69, the body was just starting to decay. I smelled this video too.
This happens more often than we all think. That and the fact that a lot of deceased persons get put in the wrong coffins.
Right,I had a friend of mines who's Uncle died,they put him in the wrong coffin,she went to to see him before the funeral and discovered that,then on top of that,they had the Uncle dressed differently then what the clothes the family picked out😡 was thinking about this kind of work,but would have to think again,sad these types of funeral homes does this
Why wouldn't the funeral home have turned them over to the county for a paupers burial? Because they were holding them as hostage. The families had the funeral home pick them up after death. Did they think it was all going to be free to have them cremated or have funerals? The families should have had them taken care of by the county in the beginning. I see fault here by the funeral home & the families.
They should have definitely be turned in to the county.. I know my daughter's funeral was expensive and I had to come up with the money, but these bodies should have just been buried where you don't have to pay. Fault is definitely with the families and the funeral home.
That’s what I would have assumed they would have done in the first place, why would you have a funeral home pick up your love one knowing he/she doesn’t have any life insurance policy like really. So your going to make this funeral home look bad and all they were doing was keeping the body thinking that someone would pay so that they could give the loved one a proper burial!
Agreed!!!
Wow, that kind of smell isn't going to come out easily. I feel sorry for the people who live in those apartments out behind.
Always glad that you cover these stories with such detail and respect Lamont. Why the hell did the coroners office leave the white body board behind on the front porch area there. That is ridiculous.
I've been searching for someone to say that! That boy don't even know how to spell L.A. Coroner.. if he did, he'd done been smart enough to realize he'd be making damn good money along that line of work instead of making.. informative videos.
No judging. Jus saying.
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There are a few smells you never forget once you've smelled them, decomposition and burning flesh. Great video, Lamont.
I work at a funeral home and it’s very common for bodies to stay with our care center that continue to rot FOR MONTHS and sometimes a year but only because the next of kin aren’t making plans for their loved one. We can’t legally move on with cremation, embalming, etc until we have signed contracts and payments from the family. Of course they’re refrigerated during that time but the rotting doesn’t stop or wait for the family. I see TOO MANY bodies that are just abandoned by their loved ones and eventually just get cremated by the county. Just today, I dropped off remains from someone who died in 2016..the family forgot about them. And I’ve had people who even bring ashes back to us because they don’t know what to do with their loved one’s dust
This is so sad. I can't imagine "forgetting" someone in my family. The coroner's office in my county says the number of unclaimed remains grows each year. Several times a year they have a service for all they cremated over the past few months and then bury them all together - with a volunteer pastor and whoever from the community wishes to pay respects. The coroner said used to be 1 funeral 1 time a year but so many unclaimed now they hold these funerals 2 - 3 or more times a year. Heartbreaking, in my opinion.
@@sharonallen6921 it’s heartbreaking :( I’m not in any way excusing this funeral home for just letting these bodies sit there without at least pushing to get a mass cremation but after working at one, I see so much abandonment from the family side of things that I understand why they had all these bodies sitting there in the first place. Funerals are getting wayyyy too expensive and a standard cremation at the cheapest can be like $3,000 which not everyone can just cough up or save up for (in time before the body begins to rot) /: it’s becoming so impossible for families to afford a respectful disposition for their loved one that they have to resort to just abandoning them which I can’t even imagine, I’m sure they feel guilt 😔
@@girlpaintsworld I'll do it for free just get a place, lighter and some gas
@@JAPARICAN50-50 won’t be hot enough to cremate 🤣
Heartbreaking
Wow... This reminds me of the Tri-County crematory scandal that happened here in GA back in 2002. But I think the guy dumped the bodies all around the woods in the area and handed the loved ones Quick-crete or concrete dust and telling them that they are in fact the ashes. Straight up horrible. It was like 350 bodies he did that to. The guy only did about 12 years in prison and was released back in 2016 already. Just sad.
Lamont should do a video on that
I live about 15 minutes from there. It would be so cool if Lamont came out to do a story!
Oh I’m just South of Atl. I remember that story. He should not be in the streets. It was a abomination!
He'll have a special spot in hell...
There's a actual movie that was made about that called Sahkanaga
I don't know why, but this segment reminded me of a documentary I watched that was based in Los Angeles, CA called "A Certain Kind of Death." I think you can find hit here on TH-cam. Its sad but informative. But I think each state and county is different as you say. When my sister died back in 2002, she had no life insurance. Her ex-husband paid for her marker but the funeral home did the respectful thing and held a decent funeral, provided a decent casket, and allowed my sister to be buried in that coffin. I remember my mom making a comment on occasion that she still had a balance to pay. So, to those funeral directors, thank you for being kind in that way if this is something you consider.
Thanks Lamont, I heard about this story on the news, way up here in Canada and was interested in learning more about it, great video. 👍👍👍🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Omg i feel for all those that have passed and their families!
*their* ,not there and yes, I agree.
So nice to see the grammar police on top of things. How would yt survive w/o you
@@jayskicksnfits9372 is that better
The very few funeral homes I’ve been too, I’ve never smelled decomposition, even my 31 year old daughters dead body after two weeks didn’t have any odor at her funeral. Thank you God for that blessing.
Wow!! That’s creepy and insane.
Glad to have you up in my neck of the woods.
I literally did a double take when I saw this on the news, you RARELY see this kind of shit in Southern Indiana.
The same thing is happening right now in Colorado.Funeral home was closed down in november.And they just found all the corpses about a month ago.Alot more than 31 bodies.They are still working on it.
Poor Lamont, I feel for you! If you reacted that way, I know I would be running and gagging. This seems to happen every now and then as I see in the news. Thank you for covering it. I think the Funeral Home runs out of money or the owner becomes ill, and the job isn't completed. What a shame for the families. Thankfully the authorities stepped in an shut them down!
This is so sad and looks like this situation has being going on for years, still no one has a reasonable solution to fix this ongoing problem.I’ve always thought the state or city you lived in would burry a person free of charge
I agree..
They could always take them to body farms.Or donate their body to science.
That's a really creppy story. I hope the body's were laid in peace at the end.
It looked like they were laying in peace in there and now they're laying somewhere else in peace.
@@SlickArmor lol true
@@SlickArmor Peace wasn't the right word. It was respect for the deceased.
@@kevinmalone3210 actually "piece" or pieces would have been more accurate in this case.
They had a similar issue in Georgia over 25 yrs ago. !
So sad for the families the the people who work there need to pay what they have done my they all rest in 🕊️ thank u lamont u the best ✋ down stay safe and blessed 🙏 ❤️😷
How people can treat the deceased with such disrespect is beyond me! It’s infuriating!
How people treat both the living and the deceased is disgusting!
⭐⭐⭐⭐ It is so SAD when someone takes your love ones to a funeral and pay in order to have the proper care & you encounter this disgusting situation. Stay Safe & Healthy... Abrazos
Tasked with the duty of retrieving a body on our small towns fire department we’d literally force Vicks vapo rub up our nose to cover the stench, awful smell and you’re right Lamont it sticks with you forever. My sincere condolences to the families who used this funeral home.
VICKS COUGH DROPS AND OR ORANGE HALF UNPEELED IN YOUR MOUTH PLUS VAPO IN NOSE
What does decomp smell like?
@@MikePScott624 about the closest but not far from it is a hog thats been dead for a week in the sun,,,,,hogs and the human body are very close,,,,when out of human bodies they use hogs to teach in the medical schools,,,,thats why the african canabils calls human ,,,,,,LONG PIG,,,,,,tastes alot like pork
@@danielkvasnicka9638 interesting makes sense. Ive heard people say “sickly sweet smell” whatever that means
Yes Vicks work… or ammonia caps close to the nose helps as well.
Yesterday we buried the son of a friend of ours. 22yrs old. While at the funeral home we sat in the front row with our friend and you could see many flies on his sons face walking around. I'm 55 and have been to a lot of funerals in my time and I have NEVER seen anything like that. Not even 1 time. I was not happy with the people that run that place.
I'm in Australia, & we saw this story on the news, it basically vilified the owners if that funeral home.
Thank you for giving another side of the story, it makes sense, funeral Homes are a business, & if they don't get paid... Perhaps the local Council should be helping in these situations.
I would have liked to know what those 2 notes read on the doors?
And what you meant when you said that the smell reminded you of something when you were 18?
Thanks for another great video
I know EXACTLY what you're smelling, Lamont. I lived in Tijuana, Mx for a few years and the county morgue is atrocious. During the cold months you can smell the rotted bodies and in the heat of summer the stench can be picked up from BLOCKS away in any direction.
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Wow!
Please keep us posted on any updates. Thanks Lamont.
Thank you for an in depth analysis on the problem. You do thorough investigations good job as always.
People need to realize that when you disrespect the dead, bad things will happen to you.
My sister used to have a part-time job working in Central Sterile Supply at our local hospital. It was on the ground floor, just down the hall from the morgue. She told me one day she stepped into the hall during her break, and she said there was a reek, like somebody had done #2 and didn't flush. We later found out it was the body of a man, who had been dead in the river for a week (this happened in the summertime, and temps reach 90-100 degrees, with 97% humidity, for months).
Oh my days, I've seen it all now. May they rest in peace after all this time. It truly defies belief. In UK you get the service IRRESPECTIVE of your financial situation. If you don't honour the payment owed, then you go to court. And a payment plan set up. The law doesn't allow funeral homes to hold on to your dearly departed ashes. What a sad sad story. Thanks for sharing. Regards as always.
That's the civilized way to do it.
SUPPOSE YOU DO PAY FOR IT HOUNOR IT?
UK is a lot more caring towards their citizens than the USA is towards their own citizens it’s very heartbreaking I know I’m a US citizen , and breaks my heart that they disrespect their US citizens like this and not give them the help for a decent burial or help him out someway 🙏🏽💔
This isn't proper respect for the dead, how could they get away with THIS????
I was a mailman in a small village for 20 years and knew many families on my route very well. I knew many were dirt poor, and kids would get involved with bad things and die young. I'd pass by the few local funeral homes and see the kids having a "normal" wake and funeral. I'd always wonder how in the world all that could possibly be paid for. The casket, hearse, flowers, burial plot, headstone, etc...I knew the families didn't pay, as they had no money. That scenario happens all the time. Who pays for it? Someone sure does!
The taxes from the county/state are obviously paying. We had to come up with the money for my daughter and my mother on our own. Funerals are expensive. There could have been a better solution to this, like a pauper's grave. That is life.
Each state has what's called and indendengcy fund to cover that. But from what I hear,, that fund has been depleted.
Absolutely, families will come together at time that tough.
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Could you possibly mean an indigent’s fund 😂
those people who live behind that place. whew.
Excellent video..sad that can happen in today's society..someone should be held accountable..
There should be laws where a person has a proper burial regardless of the family's ability to pay. Once everything is figured out, the family left begin to pay the fees, even if it's on a payment plan. Canada has similar laws. When my dad passed away in December of 1998, the funeral home #1- took care of all the fees (ie. Newspaper notices, funeral home fees, and burial site fees.) After my dad's will was read , did they begin to start paying the fees. All funeral homes should be like this.
Congrats on 400k! ❤
Thank you for covering this story Lamont. Maybe the smell was confined to the basement when the woman entered the building - and now that the remains have been brought out, the smell is now extending to outside the building. It's a tragedy for so many young people who die so suddenly, and their families have had no time to accumulate the kind of resources that would be needed to pay for a cremation or burial. I wonder - in how many other places is this same story playing out?
In England where I live if no-one claims the body the State will provide a funeral service and usually cremated or buried in a n unmarked grave. It's shocking to hold onto bodies that long waiting for payment!. Thank you Lamont 😍
I keep thinking of this story. Thank you for your courage in approaching this place. And thank you for the explanation of how the funeral home and cremation business operates