Indiana funeral home being sued by families of the dead

Two households are suing a southern Indiana funeral residence the place police discovered greater than 30 our bodies, together with some that have been badly decomposed.

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Clark Superior Courtroom No. 6, Cynthia Faye Prepare dinner and Jeffrey Lorey allege that Lankford Funeral Dwelling in Jeffersonville gave deceptive details about the cremated stays of their daughter, Nicole Dallas Lorey. They are saying the funeral residence’s director, Randy Lankford, instructed them the corporate did not have a container wherein to ship her stays.

The household of James “Mike” Settle alleges Lankford gave them related causes for not sending them his stays.

“I’ve heard, you realize, time and again and time once more from these households, the expression of the sensation that they failed, you realize, to meet their final obligation,” the households’ lawyer, Larry Wilder of Jeffersonville, instructed The Related Press by cellphone Thursday.

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Wilder stated the Clark County coroner’s workplace instructed Settle’s household that his physique was amongst these discovered decomposing within the funeral residence. He stated Prepare dinner and Lorey have not been instructed if her physique was amongst them.

Lankford didn’t instantly reply to an e-mail and voicemail left Thursday in search of remark, and the coroner did not reply to requests for additional details about the case.

Police started investigating the funeral residence final Friday and located 31 our bodies, together with some that have been badly decomposed, and 16 units of cremated stays. Among the our bodies had been there since March.

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Jeffersonville police Maj. Isaac Parker stated Tuesday that additional data can be launched after investigators recognized the our bodies and notified the households of the lifeless. He additionally stated legal prices have not been dominated out.

Parker did not instantly reply to a message left Thursday in search of an replace.

County prosecutor Jeremy Mull stated through e-mail that he was ready for the police report to find out whether or not prices are warranted.

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The plaintiffs are in search of monetary compensation and a jury trial. Wilder stated different households of the lifeless are anticipated to affix the lawsuit.