ENFIELD, N.C. -- A North Carolina woman is facing charges after police say she let her mother's body decompose for several months before reporting that she had died. Enfield police say she did it ...

CENTRE COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — Pennsylvania State Police have released more information in the criminal complaint that led to the charges against a Centre County funeral home owner who is accused of ...

NEW ORLEANS — For the second time in just four months, a judge found New Orleans Coroner Dwight McKenna’s office liable Friday for failing to identify a dead body and allowing it to decompose while ...

When people die, Cheryl Johnston’s work begins. A forensic anthropologist at Western Carolina University, Johnston oversees one of our nation’s six human decomposition facilities. On a mountain slope ...

For his series The Washing Away of Wrongs, Robert Shults photographed the forensic research of the world’s largest center for studying human remains at Texas State University. Success! Your account ...

A widow and her family are suing Celebrity Cruises for allegedly mishandling her husband's body after he died while they were on a ship last year, saying it was left to decompose and they suffered ...