Megan Hess, a former owner of the Colorado funeral home, Sunset Mesa, has pleaded guilty to secretly dissecting corpses and selling body parts without consent from relatives of the deceased. Hess and her mother, Shirley Koch, launched a non-profit donor service organization in 2009. They forged dozens of body donor consent forms and sold the …
Two Colorado funeral home owners have been sentenced to prison for illegally selling body parts and giving clients fake ashes. Megan Hess, 46, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and her mother, 69-year-old Shirley Koch, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after their guilty pleas earlier this year. Hess and Koch stipulated that, …
A Colorado funeral home owner has pleaded guilty to mail fraud for illegally selling body parts and giving clients fake ashes. Megan Hess, 45, and her mother Shirley Koch, were indicted in March 2020 on six counts of mail fraud and three counts of transporting hazardous material, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The remaining charges against …
A mother and daughter who ran a Colorado funeral home were arrested on federal charges Tuesday for allegedly selling body parts — often without or against the families’ approval. Megan Hess, 43, and Shirley Koch, 66, owners of the since-closed Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors, were indicted on charges of mail fraud and illegal transportation of …
