Body Left To Rot In Funeral Home 3 Years Leads To Charges

COLUMBIA, S.C. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Two funeral home workers have been charged with desecration of human remains after authorities say they left a body to rot in an unrefrigerated room surrounded by air-fresheners for nearly three years in South Carolina.
Lawrence Robert Meadows and Roderick Mitchell Cummings, both 40, were indicted Friday by a state grand jury. A conviction on the charge carries a sentence of one to 10 years in prison.
They were supposed to cremate 63-year-old Mary Alic