“A funeral director at Earthman Funeral Home has been charged with abuse of a corpse after investigators found digital photos dating back five years of the director posing with his penis touching the feet of a nude female cadaver. According to court documents, James Howard Patton, 38, is free on a $1,500 bond after being charged with a class A misdemeanor. An investigator with the Houston Police Department was looking into allegations of Internet harassment lodged against Patton by his ex-girlfriend when an April 2 search warrant turned up several photos on Patton’s computer. It was unclear from court documents whether there was more than one corpse and one incident. Lisa Marshall, a spokeswoman for Earthman’s parent company, Service Corporation International, said the photos recovered from Patton’s computer were taken in 2004… ‘These are very disturbing allegations,’ Marshall said. ‘I hope people understand that this incident is unusual and is not indicative of what we’re like as an industry.’” — Chron (US)
(Thanks to Asmo and to Furpo for links.)
Several commenters on an article about Mr Patton at the Houston Press claim to have found him “creepy” when working with him. “This guy is the creepiest dude ever. He handled my mother’s funeral and if they find pics of her he won’t have to worry about the law.” Here is a picture of the perp himself. There is something lopsided about his face. One ear sticks out. His lips droop to the side. His nose looks like it was broken. As if to reaffirm the lack of symmetry, the police photo casts a sharp light on one side of his face and leaves the other in shadow. Perhaps all this symbolizes Mr Patton’s dual nature. Clearly he is a man with a dark side.
He posed with his penis against the feet of a female cadaver. According to another article, he also took images “of a female corpse with the legs spread open.” The local District Attorney stated that “the defendant’s male sexual organ was seen in various poses with those of dead bodies.” The wording isn’t clear. The images show his genitalia with “those of dead bodies,” ie in proximity to the genitalia of cadavers? Or just in proximity to the cadavers? Of course, you can’t help but wonder if all this posing led to the next logical step in the abuse of a corpse…
When you consider that these necro photos were found on Mr Patton’s computer during the investigation of an unrelated matter, you realize that there must literally be millions of such photos and videos lurking out there on the hard drives of random deviants and freaks. Just imagine the astonishing exhibition you could curate, presuming you and your photographers weren’t bound by obscenity laws, of every perversion known to man. The internet, with its proliferating pornography and true underground of sites catering to illegal activities, already forms a rough draft of this exhibit. What do you think the gallery would look like if it were completed with the pictures that no one but the freaks and the law ever see?
Somedays, I’m temped to go into law enforcement *just* to see those motherfuckin’ creepy photos. For real.
But I gotta say, WTF guys? I spent three years in the funeral business, and I never ever knew of anyone ever taking any sort of photo of the dead (except that one time when the autopsy was all fucked up during my friend’s residency), and I’m pretty sure no one ever took their genitals out at the funeral home.
When we were studying A&P, my teacher skipped right over the reproductive system, because he always said ‘There is no sex in the prep room’.
On the other hand, I’m not a fan of SCI, so I kind of like when things go wrong for them. Boo funeral corporations and huge conglomerates! Yay, small family owned businesses.
“What do you think the gallery would look like if it were completed with the pictures that no one but the freaks and the law ever see?”
How about Tsutomu Miyazaki, a Japanese serial killer also known as The Otaku Murderer, The Little Girl Murderer, and Dracula.
Between 1988 and 1989, Miyazaki mutilated and killed four girls, ages four to seven; he then sexually molested their corpses.
Maintained a collection of 5,763 videotapes, some containing anime and slasher films. Interspersed among them was video footage and pictures of his victims. Check him out on wikipida
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