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Former Booneville funeral home operators sentenced PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Sunday, 26 February 2006
BOONEVILLE, Miss. - The former owners of Salts Funeral Home in Booneville have been sentenced to 10 year prison terms each for embezzlement. In October 2005, a Lee County jury convicted Michael I. Salts and Alice Marie Salts of three counts of felony embezzlement and one count of misdemeanor embezzlement in connection with their fraudulently appropriating premium moneys that were turned over to them to be delivered to a burial insurance company.

According to records, the last time the burial insurance company received premiums from the Salts' was 1994. However, they continued to accept premiums from policyholders until 2002.

The case was moved from Prentiss County to Lee County due to pre-trial news coverage.

On Tuesday, Prentiss County Circuit Judge Thomas Gardner III sentenced the couple on the first felony count to five years in prison to serve, five years post-release supervision, a $10,000 fine and restitution to the named victim. A second felony count drew five years in prison to be served consecutive to the first count. On the third felony count, the sentence was given concurrent to the other counts.

For the misdemeanor charge, the couple received six months in prison, to be served concurrently with the other sentences, and a $1,000 fine.
Gardner ruled the two could be freed on bond if they appeal their sentences to the Mississippi Supreme Court.

Michael Salts' conviction as a habitual offender is based on his 1999 conviction on five counts of filing false pauper burial claims with Prentiss County supervisors. The habitual offender designation means he must serve every day of his sentence with no possibility of early release.

Alice Salts would be eligible for parole.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/13942756.htm
 
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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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