Dondre & Derrick Johnson Leave Bodies Behind When Their Mortuary Is Evicted

[Whisper]

Authorities remove bodies from the Johnson Family Mortuary in Fort Worth on Tuesday, while police investigate several corpses left by operators who were evicted from building.

Dondre Johnson, left, and twin brother, Derrick Johnson, also known as The Twins,” operated the Johnson Family Mortuary in Fort Worth, where authorities said they found several abandoned bodies Tuesday.​

Police are investigating several unidentified and apparently abandoned bodies inside a Texas funeral home, where operators had been evicted two weeks ago
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“We’ve done nothing wrong, said Dondre Johnson, who runs the Joahson Family Morturary with his twin brother, Derrick
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“This is a funeral home, this is were we keep bodies,”
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The paper reported there was a foul odor emanating from the Fort Worth building.
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the building's owner called authorities Tuesday after finding several bodies that had been left unattended. The owner had evicted the brothers and their business two weeks ago, police said.

The medical examiner's office was in the process of removing the corpses armed with a search warrant charging abuse of a corpse, police said. The conditions of the bodies were not revealed and the brothers have not been charged so far.
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reports said there were seven to nine bodies left behind.
The funeral home's website shows "The Twins" dressed in tails with orange-spotted vests and pink bow ties.

Dondre Johnson said some of the bodies were embalmed and awaiting shipment, with one to be sent to Kenya
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He claimed the incident was a misunderstanding. "Pray for us,"
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The mortuary's phone has been disconnected. A message left by the Daily News on a mobile phone associated with the business was not returned.
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on their site, said they were mentored by Forth Worth preacher and funeral director Gregory Spencer, whose body was found bound and strangled in an Arlington motel room in 2003.

The twins began working in the business when they were 11, the site says. Their first funeral directors' license was issued in 2011 and remains current
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"They are some good young men," Benetha Johnson told the paper. She had previously worked with the brothers. "I can't say nothing bad about them,"
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...ly-abandons-bodies-eviction-article-1.1868138

Derricks FB

https://www.facebook.com/derrick.johnson.1441810?fref=browse_search

Dondres FB

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007121598240&fref=browse_search​

 

[Whisper]

He claimed the incident was a misunderstanding. "Pray for us,"

what could excuse could possibly make this into a misunderstanding
people smelled decomposing bodies and you were busted
theres nothing that can make this a misunderstanding or they wouldve told the reporter what the misunderstanding was
you ran out of time to cover up your ignorance

 

[Valasca]

Good. You posted this.
I was gonna, but I was out to dinner.
I never find anything cool. Maybe I should get out of the house more.

 

[Wolf_of_Mars]

The big bust will be for malpractice in civil & criminal court, plus what the state licensing entity does to them.

 

[CbabyRKO]

So what is proper protocol in a situation like this? If you're evicted and you still have bodies left to service well what can you do? Wait. Never mind. Tell the families make other arrangements? Ugh. I don't know but in the business of dealing with the dead you do show them more respect than this. Texas summer man this shit had to be real.

 

[TokioFreak]

Maybe once they were evicted, the owners kept them from returning to the property? Then maybe power to the building got cut off. I mean they should have made arrangements to have the bodies transported to another mortuary, but maybe they have an explanation. My landlord evicted my neighbor and the put a pad lock on the door. We had to bust out a window to rescue their cat.

 

[trojo]

they were mentored by Forth Worth preacher and funeral director Gregory Spencer, whose body was found bound and strangled in an Arlington motel room in 2003

Am I the only one who wondered if they had something to do with that?

 

[gatekeeper]

I thought this was going to be another diabolical, scam mortuary/crematory situation where they found 300+ bodies on the property and found that they never cleaned their ovens & were shoveling out and bagging up everyone's collective ashes and giving the urns to families who thought they were getting their loved ones back. I hope it turns out these guys are on the level.

 

[sherrz]

Am I the only one who wondered if they had something to do with that?

Bit of a reach, I think.. Not everything ends up connected.

Hopefully this was just some sort of misunderstanding between the owner and brothers. I'm sure there's different kind of eviction laws for places like this, but I'm lazy today.

 

[Funkdizzy]

Am I the only one who wondered if they had something to do with that?

No, you aren't the only one that thought that. That being said, it's only because of how much time we spend here that we default to those sorts of feelings!

 

[Whisper]

Eight bodies found inside abandoned funeral home

• Decomposing corpses, including a baby, discovered by building's owner
• Funeral company had been told to leave the premises two weeks earlier
• Mortuary company denies neglect and blames landlord for the confusion
• Firm says bodies were embalmed and had funerals planned, one in Nairobi

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2693588/Investigation-bodies-left-funeral-home.html#ixzz37gd1bkJn

 

[Krystal]

Didn't any of the family members of the 8 bodies wonder what was going on for 2 weeks?

 

[Whisper]

Texas investigators say 8 melted, mummified bodies were in abandoned funeral home
New details emerge in the Johnson Family Mortuary scandal in Fort Worth. The Lifetime channel canceled its reality show after cops reported a baby and a child were among the rotting remains.

Abandoned bodies were found in these caskets left in the garage of the Johnson Family Morturary in Texas. Two managers have been charged with abusing corpses.

Rachel Johnson, center, escorted by Fort Worth Police officers, is led to jail last week after she and her husband, Dondre Johnson, were charged with abusing corpses at the Johnson Family Morturary.​

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Eight bodies found at the Johnson Family Mortuary in Fort Worth were in varying states of decay, from melting to mummification, and included an infant and a child, according to arrest warrant documents filed against two funeral home managers.

One corpse was mummified inside a casket, and another was found wrapped in a sheet on a coffee table. The infant's remains were found melted into a canister and had been at the mortuary for two years
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nvestigators said they smelled "the odor of decaying flesh " from the parking lot. Inside, they found insects had infested some of the bodies. Two were not embalmed. Others were on gurneys with bodily fluids dripping into buckets
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Rachel Johnson, 35, the wife of co-owner Dondre Johnson, was arrested last week, along with her husband.
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The Lifetime cable network said Friday it would not air a reality show titled "Good Grief" based on the Johnson family and their lavish funeral services, some of which included dancing pall bearers and hip hop music.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...bandoned-texas-funeral-home-article-1.1880570

Authorities removing abandoned bodies from the Johnson Family Mortuary in Fort Worth, Texas. The putrid remains were infested with larvae and others were mummified, new details reveal.​

At the time, Dondre Johnson said the whole incident was "a misunderstanding.

k someone explain to me how this is a misunderstanding

 

[gatekeeper]

Fcs, I gotta reflect @Krystal 's comment and ask, where were the family members asking questions? An 'infant melted in a canister for two years'? 'Two bodies not even embalmed'? A body 'wrapped in a sheet on a coffee table' and human goo 'dripping off gurneys into buckets'!? Un-freakin-believable! This place can't be so isolated that the police could smell the putrification and neighbors and surrounding businesses couldn't, IMO. Unless they were handing out bags, boxes & urns w/random ashes in them to family & loved ones, or planting caskets they "repo'd" on the sly to reuse them (think someone already mentioned the casket heisting idea), how the hell does this ghoulish shit even past muster in the first place let alone over time?

There was a reality show/documentary on cable (can't remember name, place or channel) about a mortuary who 'celebrated life/death' by throwing big, happy dance parties, much like a big, fun reception blow out after a wedding. It looked like Mardi Gras in the Quarter b/c you could choose the theme. I remembered it b/c I actually loved the idea. Different shows do their own takes on the same "interesting" cases, ppl, etc., all the time. I hope to F**K it wasn't this buncha nightmarish ghouls!

 

[SkummyRummy]

Why did nobody claim the baby? 2yrs and nothing?!?

 

[Whisper]

Why did nobody claim the baby? 2yrs and nothing?!?

I have no clue but I hope someone speaks up and has a proper funeral for the baby like they do when they find a baby doe
usually communities will come forward and hold a service in that kinda case
I just saw on news here last week in Detr there were over 125 unclaimed bodoes at the MEs office so a bunch of police organizations and churchs etc got together and held services and had funerals

 

[TheDevilIsInTheDetails]

Why did nobody claim the baby? 2yrs and nothing?!?

I have no real information, but a situation here in PA a few years back makes me wonder if the same happened here. The families thought they buried their loved ones, but when "extra" bodies were found on the property it turned out that their records were a huge mess. Some folks had no family and were sent from a nursing home, some folks were buried by mistake (closed casket) in place of others...the funeral home had lost track of who was who and were burying bodies willy-nilly whenever a family requested closed casket. I have no idea how they made these type of mistakes, but it makes me wonder (especially in the case of a baby) if a family buried an empty casket, thinking the body of their loved one was inside.

 

[SkummyRummy]

I have no real information, but a situation here in PA a few years back makes me wonder if the same happened here. The families thought they buried their loved ones, but when "extra" bodies were found on the property it turned out that their records were a huge mess. Some folks had no family and were sent from a nursing home, some folks were buried by mistake (closed casket) in place of others...the funeral home had lost track of who was who and were burying bodies willy-nilly whenever a family requested closed casket. I have no idea how they made these type of mistakes, but it makes me wonder (especially in the case of a baby) if a family buried an empty casket, thinking the body of their loved one was inside.

That's terrible

 

[gatekeeper]

I have no clue but I hope someone speaks up and has a proper funeral for the baby like they do when they find a baby doe
usually communities will come forward and hold a service in that kinda case
I just saw on news here last week in Detr there were over 125 unclaimed bodoes at the MEs office so a bunch of police organizations and churchs etc got together and held services and had funerals

Our last one that made nat'l news and a couple of cable documentaries was 4 y.o. "Precious Doe." Baby Mama & Daddy thought they were being slick by decapitating her and removing her digits. Took four years & a lot of hard work, but she was finally ID'd & those lower than low shitbags were finally found. Baby Does just tear me up.