Undertaker Accused Of Leaving Body To Rot In Hearse
Posted on Wednesday, 25 of February , 2009 at 10:06 pm
BIRMINGHAM, ALA—A funeral director has been charged with felony abuse of a corpse after a decomposed body was found in a shipping container in the back of hearse parked on his property with junk vehicles.
Harold Watson Sr., 76, owner of Watson and Sons Funeral Home allegedly left the body of a 52-year-old woman who had died of natural causes in November, 2007, in the back of the parked hearse after her family failed to pay the funeral bill.
Police said that the woman’s relatives had wanted the body cremated but had failed to sign the proper paperwork and hadn’t pay the bill. According to the complaint, Watson had stored the corpse in the funeral home for over a year and when he could no longer stand the smell and couldn’t reach the woman’s family, decided to store it in the hearse where he had been about two months before it was found.
The gruesome discovery was made Tuesday after a police received a complaint of a suspicious odor emanating from the property. The hearse was locked and parked in a lot several miles from the funeral home. The battery had been removed so the vehicle could not be moved. 2-25-09
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