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The owner of a Jeffersonville, Indiana, funeral home pleaded guilty Friday to over 40 felony counts of theft, having failed to render the after-death services for which he had been paid.
Law enforcement uncovered 31 unrefrigerated and decomposing bodies and the ashes of 17 cremated people at the Lankford Funeral Home in July 2022.
Some of the bodies within the facility had been there since March 2022.
Owner Randy Lankford was charged with over 40 counts of theft, having failed to have completed funeral services and failed to turn over the ashes to the people’s loved ones.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita had Lankford’s license to operate suspended in August 2022.
“Grieving families must be able to trust that their loved ones’ remains will be respectfully and properly handled,” Attorney General Rokita said in a statement at the time.
