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PUEBLO, COLORADO - A needle-in-the-haystack DNA search is underway to identify at least 24 mummified bodies that were discovered in a secret room of a funeral home.
Brian Cotter, one of two brothers who co-own the Davis Mortuary in Pueblo, Colorado, also serves as Pueblo County's longtime elected coroner.
He has yet to resign from that position despite widespread calls for him to do so and despite his admission that he let some of the bodies putrefy in his funeral home, unrefrigerated and unembalmed, for as long as 16 years.
Cotter also admitted that he may have given fake ashes to descendants' next-of-kin while leaving their loved ones' bodies to rot.
'I'm lost, confused, furious, every emotion anyone could feel right now,' said Annie Rahl, who entrusted Davis Mortuary with her uncle, Samuel Holgerson's body on August 18, two days before state inspectors found the decaying remains, and wonders if it was among them.
Rahl is livid that neither Cotter, 64, nor his brother, Chris Cotter, 59, has been arrested or charged.
'It kills me that they're out there, walking free when I can assure you that if 20-something bodies were found wasting away in my home or office, I'd be behind bars in a minute.'
'The whole community is disgusted,' added Thomas Clementi, a locksmith for Pueblo County, told Daily Mail on Tuesday after being assigned to change the locks at the county coroner's office – partly to keep Cotter out.
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