But despite repeated requests, Moran denied the reporter entry to the basement of the funeral home where the prep area was located. The reception area was kept with no odor or visible rodents. Moran asserted that complaints about his business were spurred by soured business deals, but he admitted the embalming room was “unkempt,” and he needed to bring in a dumpster to clean it up.ĭuring a visit to the funeral home on Friday afternoon, the reporter met with Moran and his wife. Moran said Tuesday afternoon that he was still operating. IDFPR would not confirm that they had inspected the embalming room, citing confidentiality. More than 10 weeks after that complaint – and three days after a Capitol News Illinois reporter visited the funeral home and sent questions to IDFPR – funeral home director Hugh Moran said the agency conducted an inspection on Monday. “This place is horrific, looks like something from a scary, filthy freak show.” “The embalming room was spraying water from pipes overhead with bottles, trash, fluids, sheets, clothes and things unrecognizable all over the room,” the complaint stated. The person who took the photographs requested to remain anonymous for their safety but filed a complaint to the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation in December.Ĭapitol News Illinois obtained a copy of the complaint that alleged conditions were unhygienic throughout the funeral home, but especially in the embalming room. The pictures that are said to depict the condition of the embalming room of the Moran Queen-Boggs Funeral Home in Centralia are shocking.Įight photographs and one video taken late last year purported to show the conditions of the funeral home depict piles of dirty sheets, a dead rodent rotting in a stairway and water running from pipes in the embalming room.
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