Severed arms, experiment claims — owner charged in Austin mortuary scandal

An Austin funeral home owner has been charged with multiple felonies after police accused her of tampering with bodies and fabricating death certificates. Adeline Bui was arrested and charged with abuse of a corpse and tampering with a government record. Her Travis County Jail records and police affidavits became public Wednesday. She could not immediately be reached for comment.

Bui’s arrest comes after police seized cremated remains, funeral documents, digital devices, anatomical specimens, and tools bearing suspected human tissue from Capital Mortuary Services in Northeast Austin earlier this month, as detailed across three coordinated warrants.

Police accuse Bui of falsifying death certificates and conducting unauthorized experiments on human remains, according to the search warrants…

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