Two funeral home directors in Texas are facing a spate of felonies after authorities say they found a dozen decomposing bodies in "very dirty, hot," and "not sanitary" conditions, with one body that was so far gone it was described as "largely liquified."

Michael Richardson and Gayle Elaine Bell were taken into custody last week and charged with three counts each of abuse of a corpse, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

According to a probable cause affidavit, officers with the Houston Police Department on April 11 responded to a call from a woman reporting a possible case of abuse of a corpse at Richardson Mortuary, which is in the 3200 block of Brookfield Drive. The woman said her mother died on March 31, and she had paid Richardson more than $17,000 to prepare the body and coord

See Full Page