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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

HBO’s the Mortician ends with subject ‘clearly implying crimes have been committed’, director says

A man in a baseball cap and glasses rides inside a car
David Sconce in 2025’s The Mortician on HBO. Photograph: Courtesy of HBO

The subject of HBO’s critically acclaimed show The Mortician admits on screen that there are “three [things] altogether” which “can’t come back” and that he can’t talk about publicly – after the docuseries mentions deaths for which he was suspected of being responsible, including one that prompted a failed attempt to prosecute him on charges that he murdered a rival mortuary owner.

David Sconce’s haunting statements on the show’s third and final episode late on Sunday are “clearly implying some very serious crimes have been committed”, The Mortician’s director, Joshua Rofé, told the Guardian. But it wasn’t immediately clear what, if any, consequences there may be.

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