Mike Mercury
10-11-2016, 3:26pm
Family sues mortuary after body was found in garage after 2 years
After 50-year-old Brigitte Godfrey died of an asthma attack in March of 2013, her family contacted Living Waters Funeral Home near Chicago to cremate the body, reports Courthouse News Service.
That never happened: Two years later, Godfrey's corpse was found with three other bodies and a bag of organs in a suburban Chicago garage. Now her family has filed a lawsuit claiming the defendants "lost, disposed of and handled Brigitte's remains in an unlawful, unauthorized manner in violation of the contract."
The garage belonged to a man named Anton Godfrey, who apparently worked in some capacity for Living Waters, though the Chicago Tribune reports that the relationship remains "unclear." Authorities say Anton Godfrey essentially operated an unlicensed mortuary and was "the subject of multiple court orders to cease and desist his in-home mortuary practices," per the Tribune.
He was once fined $10,000 over the issue. When he died last year, his wife discovered the remains in their garage, and all four bodies have since been identified.
After 50-year-old Brigitte Godfrey died of an asthma attack in March of 2013, her family contacted Living Waters Funeral Home near Chicago to cremate the body, reports Courthouse News Service.
That never happened: Two years later, Godfrey's corpse was found with three other bodies and a bag of organs in a suburban Chicago garage. Now her family has filed a lawsuit claiming the defendants "lost, disposed of and handled Brigitte's remains in an unlawful, unauthorized manner in violation of the contract."
The garage belonged to a man named Anton Godfrey, who apparently worked in some capacity for Living Waters, though the Chicago Tribune reports that the relationship remains "unclear." Authorities say Anton Godfrey essentially operated an unlicensed mortuary and was "the subject of multiple court orders to cease and desist his in-home mortuary practices," per the Tribune.
He was once fined $10,000 over the issue. When he died last year, his wife discovered the remains in their garage, and all four bodies have since been identified.