Overview

• The Mortician debuted June 1 on HBO, revisiting the 1980s Lamb Funeral Home scandal in Pasadena.
• David Sconce, now 68 and paroled in 2023, granted his first on-camera interviews since his release.
• In the series, Sconce unapologetically defends mass cremations, organ harvesting and selling body parts as practical business choices.
• The documentary revisits Sconce’s 1989 guilty plea to mutilating corpses and hiring hit men, his 2013 probation violation sentence, and early release in 1991.
• Investigations into Sconce’s practices led to US laws mandating crematorium inspections and felony penalties for pilfering remains.