The Funeral Director Who Sold Graves-and Stole Bodies
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The Funeral Director Who Sold Graves-and Stole Bodies
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When a bronze funeral-home plaque turned up tied to a man's wrist in eleven feet of Tanner Creek, Kellbrook's quiet trust cracked wide open: a man buried eighteen months earlier was found in the water, a coffin lid marker with "MERCER & SONS FUNERAL HOME, KELLBROOK, EST. NINETEEN SIXTY-ONE" clutched to his arm, and an empty coffin later exhumed at Founders' Rest. How many burials at Mercer & Sons were never actually where families believed, and who profited from keeping that secret?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries from the creek to the funeral home office and the county commission, tracing the documents, payments, and people that connected Mercer & Sons, Founders' Rest Cemetery, and the Parks and Cemetery Commission. We ask whether routine civic trust masked a scheme that left at least some graves empty and probe the question: who authorized the continuity of care that families were told would protect their loved ones?
Person: Donald Reese
Date: November 9, 2014
Location: Tanner Creek; Founders' Rest Cemetery
Person: Leon Fleming
Person: Robert Gage
- Donald Reese was forty-one and had been buried in April 2013 before his body was found in Tanner Creek on November 9, 2014.
- The bronze plaque found tied to the man's left wrist was engraved "MERCER & SONS FUNERAL HOME, KELLBROOK, EST. NINETEEN SIXTY-ONE."
- Mercer & Sons' contract with Founders' Rest Cemetery was renewed annually with Robert Gage's signature from 2003 through 2014.
- The funeral home offered a "Continuity of Care" package with an annual renewal fee of $950 and enrollment fees ranging between $800 and $1,800.
- An office manager, Amy Parker, found a handwritten folder on Fleming's desk listing twelve names with plot locations, with two of the names marked "done."
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