Arkansas shame: Funeral home stacks corpses high

Report says bodies found stacked at funeral home »

A Jan. 12 inspection of Arkansas Funeral Care in Jacksonville found the funeral home’s cooler in its holding facility “filled beyond capacity with bodies,” according to a state inspector’s report, with two bodies “stacked on top of each other” and other bodies, not embalmed, lying outside the cooler.

The state Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors suspended the licenses of the funeral home and its manager, LeRoy Wood, during an emergency hearing Wednesday afternoon. Several hours later, officials with the state Crime Laboratory and the Pulaski County coroner’s office removed 31 bodies from the funeral home.

The ASSOCIATED PRESS has distributed this story worldwide in a series of reports..

The original report was reported by Shea Stewart, a reporter in Arkansas.. Among the many troubling and sickening facts noted, this one stands out:

Pulaski County Coroner Gerone Hobbs said the two offices finished their work at Arkansas Funeral Care about 12:30 a.m. Thursday, with 11 bodies transported to the Crime Lab and 20 sent to the coroner's office.

The bodies were split between the two facilities so the coroner's morgue wouldn't be overburdened, Hobbs said.

Hobbs said calls Thursday morning to his office had been "nonstop" from clients of Arkansas Funeral Care, but his office directed calls to the state board.

I cannot even comprehend being a family member who entrusted this morbid mortuary to a loved one's final appearance and burial.. To think that this, in our modern era, can happen, is beyond all of the five senses. It's senseless, as matter of fact. But very real..

At the time this post is being written, it appears that the Arkansas Funeral Care website is still operational.. And the prices are eyebrow raising considering that bodies simply were piled high..



Also even more, a listing of the most recent deceased has become a little more unsettling knowing that many of the people may be among the disregarded without dignity.. 

This is disgusting and shameful.. A special place in hell should exist for whoever would disrespect the dead in this way.