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Mortuary transport owner sentenced for bodies found in van PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Sunday, 23 April 2006
Associated Press
April 9, 2006

FT. WORTH, TX
- The owner of a mortuary transport service who left three badly decomposing bodies in a van has been sentenced to a short jail term -- and ordered never to work in the funeral business again. Forty-one-year-old Donald Short pleaded guilty last month to three misdemeanor charges of corpse abuse.

Inside a reposessed van, authorities found three bodies zipped in dirty body bags and hidden under cardboard boxes.

Short was sented to the maximum one year in jail but will likely serve just 30 days. He was was also put on two years' probation, ordered to write letters of apology to the victims' families and pay the maximum four-thousand dollar fine.

The bodies inside the van were supposed to be cremeated. According to court records, Short told police he never received the proper paperwork to do so.

The men's families have sued Short and his company, North Star Transportation.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=state&id=4068543
 
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