A mother says a funeral home worker befriended her and then sold her a burial plot that belonged to someone else.
Douglas County deputies said Pamela Teal sold non-existent burial plots to several families, including Beverly La Fleur and her brother Richard La Fleur.
“She was almost my friend,” Beverly La Fleur told Channel 2′s Tom Jones.
She said she and Teal developed a deep bond when Teal helped her find a burial plot at Mozley Memorial Gardens last year.
“I trusted her. I trusted her with this,” Beverly La Fleur said.
Her brother Richard said Teal was a Godsend when she helped him find a burial plot for Beverly’s son, Samuel Moon.
“She attended the funeral burial service. She stood there with us,” Richard La Fleur said.
The La Fleurs later found out the burial plots they bought didn’t belong to them and the paperwork they signed was fraudulent.
Douglas County deputies have now charged Teal, now a former funeral home employee, with at least 12 counts of theft by deception and 1st-degree forgery.