An embalmer in Houston was arrested and charged with abuse of a corpse this week after allegedly castrating a dead sex offender, stabbing him twice and shoving his severed genitals down his throat.
Amber Laudermilk allegedly committed the crime in front of an embalming student at the Memorial Mortuary & Crematory last month.
Laudermilk allegedly told the student, “You didn’t see anything,” after she took a scalpel to 58-year-old Charles Roy Rodriguez’s groin.
The New York Post reported that according to the charging documents, when questioned why Rodriguez was “disfigured,” Laudermilk said he had “a lot going on with him.”
It is unclear how Laudermilk knew Rodriguez was a sex offender. He was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman back in 2001.
Police said Laudermilk turned herself in and a $5,000 bond has been set.
Full statement from Harris County Constable Precinct 1:
Embalmer charged with castrating corpse of sex offender.
A Houston woman who worked at a funeral home is accused of mutilating the body of a dead sex offender.
Amber Paige Laudermilk, 34, who was employed as an embalmer, is charged with Abuse of a Corpse, a State Jail Felony. Texas Department of Criminal Justice
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