The Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) said the on-site investigation at the Marion Graham Mortuaries in north Jacksonville is now complete, and investigators will be turning their findings to the State Attorney’s Office, according to News 6.
This comes as the funeral director, Elliott Maurice Graham, 49, is waiting to be transported to Jacksonville after he was arrested in Orange County Friday evening. He is accused of stealing, giving families the wrong ashes, and abandoning a mortuary with bodies inside. He now faces charges including grand theft and improper preservation of a body.
So who is Marion Graham? And who is Maurice Graham, the current funeral director here who is now wanted by the law?
According to an obituary, Marion Graham died in 2018. Then, his son, Elliott Maurice Graham took over the business.
In bankruptcy filings from 2010, Maurice Graham reported he was the funeral director at a location of Marion Graham Mortuaries on A. Philip Randolph Blvd, where he had been employed for 10 years.