Vet’s family recovers remains from dumpster
Rick sends us a link to an article from Cleveland in regards to the family of Eric Wiley, a Vietnam veteran, who died three years ago. The family thought that Eric’s remains had been properly interred, but those remains were discovered in an Akron dumpster;
“We had a funeral, and then after that, the remains were supposed to go to a military slot. I signed papers for that,” said his widow, Dorothy, on Thursday.
Instead, Wiley’s cremated remains and those of two other people were discovered in a large commercial dumpster in Akron on Tuesday.
What all three had in common was Funeral Director Charles Taylor, who explained to FOX 8 News that they may have been in a Macedonia storage unit he was renting, along with someone else.
Taylor explained that he was locked out of the storage unit after payments had not been made.
The owner of the storage facility told FOX 8 on Wednesday that Taylor owed him $4,000, but would not answer questions about how the boxes of cremated remains ended up in an Akron dumpster.
Category: Shitbags
Oh hell no…..that funeral director and that storage facility owner deserve a thorough going over with a hammer and a blow torch! Isn’t desecration of human remains a crime? I don’t even know what to say here!
Disgusting slime.
Never trust anyone to do it right. If you don’t monitor these slimy pigs, this is what will happen.
If the cremains were supposed to be turned over to a veterans’ cemetery (which would have been free), why did the funeral director keep them in a storage unit? Strange, also, that in three years no one from the family ever confirmed that he was properly interred, nor attempted to visit him wherever he was supposed to be.
There is no good place to begin with this one other than it is thoroughly disgusting on more levels than is imaginable.
Yeah, criminal charges all around, at the very least. And a speedy proper burial to lessen the pain to his family.
I take it the cremains were in some sort of marked container, that would have allowed the storage unit owner to ID them? As opposed to just a plain brown anonymous box?
That’s the only “out” I could give to the storage owner. Otherwise, hang the funeral director AND the storage owner by their pubes and beat them like a cheat pinata.
Real estate agents, funeral directors and hookers. Same job, different name.
Why not just tattoo “I love Jane Fonda” on their foreheads and leave them alone amongst some meanassed “1%’er” Outlaw Bikers? That’s MY happy thought of the day about those slimeballs!
Would not fraud be an approximate charge. Besides once word got through the PNN(Prison News Network) some of our dishonored brethren or respectful prisoner would introduce themselves and give him the old heave ho.
It sounds like the family paid for cremation and internment to a Funeral director. The cremation was performed but The director have never purchased the plot to place the remains, Hence he put them in a storage locker. After non payment the storage owner cut the lock and tossed them. One thing about cremation, the restrictions are a lot different with what goes on with a body proper and ashes. You can walk around with your grandma in a coffee can in pubic and its perfectly legal.
Unless you buy an urn, the ashes get put into a plastic bag, and then encased in a cardboard box. Urns are expensive (the bronze ones, anyway), and they don’t give those away. Ashes are not considered hazardous, and can be stored pretty much anywhere.
That’s what happens to human cremains? A cardboard box?
Geez, my deceased cats got more respect than that! I got a round metal container with a lid and the ashes were wrapped and sealed in heavy paper, like an envelope, so that I could scatter them if I wished to do so.
@11 I think you’re right. We have a pet cemetary here. I doubt that anyone has ever had to question whether it’s their pet in that plot, like has happened with humans in cemetaries. 🙁
I hope someone uses this as a signal to give the funeral director a thourough looking-into: anyone remember the funeral director in Florida a few years ago who was collecting for cremation but just stashing the bodies- hundreds of them, by the time he was busted- at his vacation cabin?
Ex-PH2: My lady says when I die she’s going to store my ashes in a big container with the ashes of all of our cats that predecease me, so I’ll never have to be without them. I think it’s kinda sweet, in a creepy sort of way…