A mortician and mortuary owner is under investigation after allegedly experimenting with corpses as police search teams found power tools covered in human remains. Adeline Ngan-Binh Bui, 50, owner of Capital Mortuary Services, was brought in by cops after the Texas Funeral Service Commission contacted the Austin Police Department’s Homicide Unit over concerns.
A search warrant was carried out and the mortician was charged with Abuse of Corpse Without Legal Authority and Tampering with Government Records amid concerns she cut off the limbs for experiments in the embalming process. She turned herself into the Travis County Jail and was later released on bail on a $27,000 (£20,000) bond as investigations go on.
Jessica Huynh, Bui’s attorney on behalf of Smith and Vinson Law Firm, said: “Our criminal justice system is based on the presumption of innocence and a careful, critical evaluation of the evidence, facts, and their sources.
“This case involves complexities that are not immediately apparent and should not be sensationalised. Our legal team remains fully committed to defending and advocating for our client… with the expectation of fairness and due process.”
The initial concerns came from a former employee at the morgue who claimed Bui had fraudulently initiated and obtained at least 10 death certificates under his name. She is said to have been conducting “experiments” on the arms of corpses, according to a probable cause arrest affidavit obtained by local NBC affiliate KXAN.
These include “experiments” injecting formaldehyde into the arms of the corpses to check the “the effect it had over time on severed extremities”. She is said to have then left the arms in the crematory, where they were later cremated.
Local media say police took photos of severed arms in varying stages of decomposition. Bui is reported to have ordered staff at the morgue to conduct the experiments on 15 bodies.
MedtoMarket, which had a contract with Bui’s business Capital Mortuary Services for “transportation and cremation services”, denied any involvement in the experiments but added it was aware of arms being removed and embalmed in an experiment to see how long they could be preserved for, per the affidavit.
Fox 7 Austin reported that when police executed the search warrant on April 10, Bui allegedly admitted to using the former embalmer’s name on death certificates without his knowledge.
This comes after an NHS pathologist took a racy photograph of herself in her underwear while she was at a hospital mortuary – and then posted it on OnlyFans.
Bosses are investigating Amelie Warnier’s snap, understood to have been taken in the morgue waiting room at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex. The 44-year-old professional is then believed to have posted the image on OnlyFans during the Covid-19 pandemic.
But Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, which operates the hospital, says there are “strict codes of practice” in its mortuaries. It has opened a probe into the mum of two’s act, said to have happened after she was encouraged by a friend to create a profile on the adult website.
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