An X-ray scan revealed a human skeleton. Investigators said the remains were in an advanced stage of decomposition, with ...

CENTRE COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — Pennsylvania State Police have released more information in the criminal complaint that led to the charges against a Centre County funeral home owner who is accused of ...

ENFIELD, N.C. -- A North Carolina woman is facing charges after police say she let her mother's body decompose for several months before reporting that she had died. Enfield police say she did it ...

A widow and her family are suing Celebrity Cruises for allegedly mishandling her husband's body after he died while they were on a ship last year, saying it was left to decompose and they suffered ...

After failing to buy him a coffin, two funeral directors left a pensioner’s decomposing body in an unrefrigerated mortuary for more than a month, a court has heard. Richard Elkin, 49, and Hayley Bell, ...

NEW ORLEANS — For the second time in just four months, a judge found New Orleans Coroner Dwight McKenna’s office liable Friday for failing to identify a dead body and allowing it to decompose while ...

CHATTOOGA COUNTY, Ga. — A body was found in a home in Chattooga County on Monday in "the latter stages of decomposition," the sheriff said, with the person deceased possibly more than a year. Sheriff ...