PASADENA : Jury Selection Begins in Funeral Home Case
Jury selection got under way Monday for a couple accused of removing and selling body parts, mutilating corpses and commingling human remains during the time they operated a Pasadena funeral home.
Jerry Wayne Sconce, 57, faces eight counts and his wife, Laurieanne Lamb Sconce, 54, is charged with 27 counts for the alleged grisly misdeeds at Lamb Funeral Home--one of the oldest mortuaries in Pasadena.
Jury selection is expected to take most of the week in Pasadena Superior Court. The Sconces’ 35-year-old son, David, received a five-year prison term in August, 1989, after pleading guilty to 21 counts, including stealing dental gold from bodies and failing to bury the remains of a baby girl.
The investigation into the Sconces’ activities began in 1987 in the city of Hesperia, where David Sconce owned a small building that neighbors thought was being used to manufacture ceramic tile for a space station project.
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