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Two former funeral directors were sentenced Tuesday after they pleaded guilty to defrauding the relatives of the dead, illegally selling bodies and body parts

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 and her mother Shirley Koch defrauded over 200 families by handing over random ashes while selling body parts of deceased individuals entrusted to their funeral home.

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 ...