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Police are investigating more than 30 bodies, some of which were found at a funeral home in southern Indiana.
Police in Jeffersonville, a suburb of Louisville, responded to the Lankford Funeral Home and Family Center Friday night and found 31 bodies, including some that were “in the advanced stages of decomposition,” Major Isaac Parker said.
The county coroner’s office reported a strong odor from the building, he said. Inside, officers in hazmat suits found bodies “in various places around the building”. Some bodies have been at funeral homes since March, Parker said. Police also found the cremated remains of 16 people.
“It was a very unpleasant scene,” Parker said. “Conditions are not good.”
The funeral home owner has been speaking with police since Friday and an investigation is ongoing, Parker said.
The owners did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking comment on Sunday.
The remains were taken to the Clark County coroner’s office for identification, and police are asking anyone with information to contact the coroner’s office.
A woman who sent her brother’s body to a funeral home for cremation after his death in April told WHAS-TV that she is still waiting for his body. Tara Owen said that when she contacted the funeral director, he replied that he was “working on a lot at the moment.”
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