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A former funeral home owner in Colorado, United States, Megan Hess, has bagged 20-year jail terms after admitting to have defrauded relatives of the dead by dissecting 560 corpses and selling body parts without permission. In July, Hess, 46, pleaded guilty to fraud. From the same building in Montrose, Colorado, she ran a funeral home, Sunset Mesa, and a body parts company, Donor Services. The maximum allowed by law was a 20-year sentence. Hess and Koch used their funeral home to steal bodies and body parts at times, using fraudulent and forged donor forms.

Megan Hess, 48, a funeral home director at Sunset Mesa in Colorado who illegally sold body parts and gave clients fake ashes has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

A former Colorado funeral home owner was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Tuesday for defrauding ...

A former Colorado funeral home owner was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Tuesday for defrauding relatives of the dead by dissecting 560 corpses and selling body parts without permission.

Nearly 7,000 Coloradans pushed into onerous student loan repayment terms can expect checks in the mail as soon as this week as part of a settlement agreement. Navient, one of the country’s largest student loan servicers, has been ordered to provide 1.85 billion dollars in relief to borrowers nationwide. Navient will forgive around 35 million dollars of student loan debt of more than 1300 Coloradans and send out restitution payments to around 7000 more.