Funeral Home Worker Steals Teeth From Corpses
Date: November 5, 2013Category: Author: Infinity Dental Web
It has to be creepy enough working in a funeral home, but how about one where an employee is extracting the teeth from the dead? That’s exactly what’s been happening in one California funeral home, and thankfully the employee has been caught red-handed.
At Halley-Olsen-Murphy Funeral Home in Lancaster, California, one 39-year-old employee Pete Jacob Lara committed petty thefts over the course of a year that culminated into a total of 125 gold crowns from the jaws of dead people. Lara also stole “a cremation urn box and medallions used to decorate urn boxes worth more than $1,000,” according to the DailyMail.
The stolen items Lara went on to sell at pawn shops and jewelry stores. The LA District Attorney’s office has declared Lara to be charged with “removal or possession of dental gold from human remains, grand theft by embezzlement and possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine,” according to Fox News.
During his arraignment, Lara pleaded not guilty. His trial will commence on November 12th. If Lara is convicted, he faces up to 19 years in prison. His bail is set at a whopping $510,000.
Does it freak you out that an embalmer was picking through the teeth of the deceased? Not to mention it’s morally wrong…
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