Former American football star and celebrity criminal defendant OJ Simpson has been cremated, the lawyer handling his estate said. Simpson died last week at home in Las Vegas at the age of 76. Lawyer Malcolm LaVergne told The Associated Press he was present, along with unspecified other people, for the morning event at Palm Mortuary […]
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Two Irish friends died of fentanyl poisoning in Florida. Authorities say the wrong one was cremated
Florida officials mislabeled the remains of two Irish nationals who died of drug overdoses, leading to a mix-up of their autopsies and the “highly probable” cremation of the wrong body, authorities said. Kane Mitchell, 30, and Luke Comiskey, 31, died in April 2022 after consuming fentanyl-laced drugs one of them bought from a man he’d […]
Woman’s corpse and 30 cremated remains found after ex-funeral home owner gets evicted from house
DENVER (AP) — A financially troubled former funeral home owner kept a deceased woman’s body in a hearse for two years at a house where police also found the cremated remains of at least 30 people, authorities said Friday in the latest case to underscore lax oversight of Colorado’s funeral industry. The grisly discovery occurred […]