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NLV Funeral Home Mixes Up Two Bodies PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 01 September 2004
Aug. 31) -- A North Las Vegas funeral home is being investigated for mixing up two bodies. One body was supposed to be buried and the other cremated, but neither of the two veterans were laid to rest according to their wishes. The Harrison Ross Mortuary is now being investigated by the state. It was a horrible mix up. And the funeral home almost got away without the families knowing. That's because one man didn't have any surviving relatives and the wife of the other man was given ashes. But those ashes were not her husband's.

The man who was buried at the veteran's cemetery was believed to be 55-year-old Steven Erwin. But when the Clark County coroner exhumed the body last week, they found out it was really 58-year-old John Roger Stevens. Stevens' wife in Bishop, California believed that she had his ashes on her mantle. But she really had the ashes of a stranger -- Steven Erwin.

Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy said, "In the conversation I had with Mrs. Stevens, you can understand she was upset."

The mix up occurred at the Harrison Ross funeral home last fall. Now the Nevada Division of Investigations is looking into how this could happen. And the Clark County coroner's office is trying to rectify the situation, even though it wasn't their mistake.

"Am I disgusted by this? I am at this point where all I can do is move forward to correct the problem," Murphy said.

William Smith, the CEO of the Harrison Ross Mortuary in California, said that this was the first time he heard of the problem. And that he will look into it. And he noted that there were some recent management changes at the Las Vegas funeral home.

But sources tell Eyewitness News that executives at Harrison Ross not only knew about the mistake, they went to great lengths to cover it up.

Now John Roger Stevens will be cremated and his ashes will go to his wife. And Steven Erwin's ashes will be buried in a new plot at the veteran's cemetery.

If the Nevada Division of Investigations determines that there was wrongdoing by the funeral home then it is possible that they could be charged with felony conspiracy to defraud the families and the county. And that's because the county paid for the burial of the one man because he had no surviving relatives.

http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2242997&nav=168XQRbk
 
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