Family Seeks Criminal Probe Of Va. Funeral Home

MATTHEW BARAKAT

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A man who says his father's body was left for months to rot in the garage of a funeral home when he was supposed to be buried with military honors is asking for a criminal investigation.

Richard Morgan Jr. of Harrisonburg hand-delivered a letter Monday to the office of Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Raymond Morrogh, arguing that the National Funeral Home neglected the remains of his father, Maj. Richard Morgan, so badly that it constitutes a felony under state law.

"Placing my father's corpse in a garage, unrefrigerated, cannot be characterized as anything but willful and intentional," Morgan wrote in his letter, noting that defilement of a corpse is a felony under Virginia law. ...