Colorado funeral home operators sentenced for selling body parts without a permit
Two Colorado funeral home operators who sold body parts or bodies in a scheme a prosecutor called "horrifying" were sentenced to prison Tuesday, authorities said.Megan Hess, 46, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and her mother, Shirley Koch, 69, was sentenced to 15 years, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado reported. said in a statement.They operated Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, a city of about 20,000 in western Colorado, and stole and sold body parts or bodies from 2010 to 2018, prosecutors said.In many cases, the families were unaware and in others they specifically refused…
