Louisiana man, 21, is arrested after breaking into a funeral home and sharing grisly videos of autopsied corpses with a friend on FaceTime
- Boris Richard Jr was arrested for Unauthorized Entry of a Place of Business
- He reportedly broke into the Smith Funeral Home in Monroe, Ouachita Parish
- The 21-year-old was allegedly videoing ‘several corpses on his cell phone’
A Louisiana man has been arrested for breaking into a funeral home after hours and sharing grisly videos of autopsied corpses with a friend on FaceTime.
Boris Richard Jr, 21, snuck into the Smith Funeral Home in Monroe, Ouachita Parish, on April 7, according to police.
Richard, who lives around ten miles from the funeral home, allegedly made ‘unauthorized entry’ to the embalming room and ‘videoed several corpses on his cell phone’.
The report added that he was ‘showing an acquaintance’ the corpses via FaceTime.
He was arrested for Unauthorized Entry of a Place of Business on April 10.
Boris Richard Jr, 21, snuck into the Smith Funeral Home in Monroe, Ouachita Parish, according to police.
Richard was arrested for Unauthorized Entry of a Place of Business on April 10
A probable cause affidavit filed by the Monroe Police Department stated that the 21-year-old broke into the funeral home out of hours on April 7 between 11am and 12pm.
The report added that the ‘victim’, who has not been named, ‘advised Richard made entry into the embalming room with several corpses present post-autopsy’.
It continued: ‘The victim stated Richard videoed several corpses on his cell phone via FaceTime and was showing an acquaintance the corpses while the business was closed to the public.’
‘Richard was not an official worker at the funeral home and was advised he was not supposed to gain entry to the embalming room without consent.’
According to police, Richard refused to answer questions and was handcuffed and transported to the Ouachita Correctional Center.
Richard was released the next day after posting a $1,500 bond.
He was originally due to appear in court on April 12, but the hearing has been rescheduled for May 18.
DailyMail.com has approached Smith Funeral Home for comment.
It comes months after a Colorado funeral home owner was sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling hundreds of corpses to medical researchers and giving grieving families fake ashes.
Megan Hess, 48, and her mother, Shirley Koch, 69, transferred bodies and body parts from their Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in the western city of Montrose to third parties for research without the grieving families’ knowledge before charging them $1,000 for fake cremations, authorities said.
A former employee of the funeral home, which Hess and Koch ran together, said the 48-year-old had earned $40,000 by extracting and selling the gold teeth of some of the deceased.
District Judge Christine Arguello in Grand Junction sentenced Hess to the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to mail fraud in November under a plea agreement in which other charges against her were dropped.
Koch was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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