(CHICAGO) Four bodies and other human remains were found Wednesday in the garage of a south suburban home where the homeowner was conducting an illegal in-home mortuary business, according to police.
Riverdale police called Illinois State Police investigators for assistance at a home in the 13900 block of South Dearborn in Riverdale about 7:30 p.m. after human remains were discovered, according to state police.
Four bodies, one box of cremated remains, and a “container of organs” were found in the garage, according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The bodies were examined Thursday at the medical examiner’s office, which is working to confirm their identities and notify their families.
State police said the four bodies were “in various stages of decomposition.”
Investigators believe the homeowner, Anton Godfrey, who died Aug. 29, was “improperly storing bodies in his home garage, which were prepared for burial,” a statement from ISP said.
Godfrey had previously been “the subject of multiple court orders to cease and desist his in-home mortuary practices.”
In August 2013, Godfrey was fined $10,000 by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for running an “unlicensed practice of funeral directing and embalming,” according to IDFPR records.
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