Funeral director William Villanova even shared a story he'd heard about Judy Garland's service — which involved "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" George De Sota/Getty The Frank E. Campbell funeral home is ...
Embalming rooms labeled “horror scenes,” corpses misidentified, and bodies buried before death certificates were filed — those were just a few of the red flags in New York’s funeral industry, ...
A state audit says New York health agencies must tighten funeral oversight after risks of misidentified bodies and invalid ...
Everybody dies. But not everybody is embalmed at Frank E. Campbell, a discreet mortuary on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The Great Read Everybody dies. But not everybody is embalmed at Frank E.
An 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at a New York nursing home but found to be breathing three hours later at the funeral home where she had been taken, authorities said. The incident happened ...
The funeral home ran out of room for the bodies as COVID-19 deaths surged. The Brooklyn funeral home that was caught storing dozens of bodies in rental trucks after it ran out of space due to the ...
It’s Monday, April 13, day 24 of the COVID-19 shutdown in New York City. Outside the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home in Queens, rain comes down in sheets and a harsh wind topples trash cans off the ...
The New York State Department of Health has suspended the license of a Brooklyn funeral home where dozens of bodies were discovered in trucks Wednesday, according to a statement by the state health ...
A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that a New York funeral home sent the wrong body for burial in Guatemala last year. The family of Elder Emilio Garcia Umul claims in the lawsuit against Rivera Funeral ...
The state health department and Brooklyn DA seek answers. New York State health officials stripped a Brooklyn funeral home of its license Friday after it stored dozens of bodies inside rented trucks ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Pat Marmo walked among 20 or so deceased in the basement of his Brooklyn funeral home, his protective mask pulled down so his pleas could be heard. “Every person there, they’re not a ...
Andrew T. Cleckley was the first funeral director in New York to have his license revoked over the way he handled the remains of pandemic victims. By Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura Sharon Escobar paid a ...