Inset: Funeral home owner Chris Johnson (Coffee County Sheriff’s Office). Background: The Johnson Funeral Home in Douglas, Georgia (WALB/YouTube).
Two individuals have been taken into custody following the unveiling of 18 decaying bodies at a funeral home in Georgia. The proprietor stands accused of mistreating deceased bodies and engaging in insurance fraud. Moreover, an alleged collaborator faces charges for adjusting the cause of death on a death certificate to receive additional life insurance benefits. The investigation revealed these shocking details.
Chris Johnson, aged 39, and James Sirmans, aged 52, were arrested and charged on Sunday with insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, more than a month after the corpses were discovered at the Johnson Funeral Home in Coffee County. Although Johnson was initially apprehended on October 27 solely on 17 counts of abusing a dead body, new charges of insurance fraud were later pressed against him. Sirmans was taken into custody Sunday after an examination by the state’s Office of the Commissioner of Insurance.
