Funeral/Cemetery Fraud
Description
This episode of Scammed reveals the horrifying story of a funeral home outside of Chicago that was involved in selling recycled graves - by disposing of the original remains and then burying the recently deceased in their place. Sherriff Tom Dart and victims of this fraud take you through their experiences of the entire ordeal - a ghastly fraud scheme that exploited grieving families and desecrated what were to be the final resting places of their loved ones.
Runtime
21 min
Series
Subjects
- Fraud (34)
- Deviant behavior (131)
- Swindlers and swindling (37)
- Social control (144)
- Crime (296)
- Funeral rites and ceremonies (65)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2011
Database
Films on Demand
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