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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jesse Bedayn

Takeaways from AP's report on a woman whose body was among 189 left to decay in a funeral home

Decomposing Bodies One Victim's Story - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A Colorado funeral home owner will be sentenced Friday for stashing nearly 200 decaying human bodies in an office building over four years.

One of the bodies was the mother of Derrick Johnson. The 45-year-old learned from the FBI that the ashes he had buried behind his home on Maui weren't actually his mother's remains. Instead, her body was languishing with 188 others in a building in Penrose, outside Colorado Springs.

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