Texas embalmer charged with mutilating corpse of registered sex offender—
A Texas woman has been charged with abusing a corpse after she allegedly used a scalpel to castrate the body of a registered sex offender last month, officials said.
Amber Paige Laudermilk, 34, was employed as an embalmer at Memorial Mortuary & Crematory in Houston when she allegedly mutilated the body of Charles Roy Rodriguez, 58, in February, according to a statement on Monday from Constable Alan Rosen of Harris County Precinct One.
Rodriguezwasaregisteredsexoffenderandwaschargedwithsexualassaultin2001.HediedofnaturalcausesataHoustonhospitalinJanuary,thestatementsaid.
ChargingdocumentsidentifytwoemployeesofMemorialMortuary&Crematoryatthescenewhowitnessedthecrime.ThefirstwitnessallegedlysawLaudermilkstabRodrigueztwiceinthegroininthecremationroombeforecuttingoffhispenisandplacingitinhismouth.
Laudermilktoldthefirstwitness,whoisanembalmingstudent,“Youdidn’tseeanything,”inamannerthatthewitness“perceivedtobeasthreatening,”thedocumentssaid.
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