State failed for months to act at Carlinville funeral home
Bodies found decomposing, families given strangers’ ashes in months following coroner’s complaint
CARLINVILLE (Capitol News Illinois) -- State regulators allowed a Carlinville funeral director to operate for months despite a complaint filed by a local coroner who found a decomposing body in his funeral home and alleged the care of the remains was “unacceptable and criminal in nature.” While trying to assist a local family with retrieving cremated remains in March, Morgan County Coroner Marcy Patterson found the unrefrigerated corpse in the embalming room of Heinz Funeral Home. She contacted the Illinois […]
