The Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau is working to contact over 100 families after bodies and cremated remains were found at a warehouse linked to a suspended Hayward cremation business.
“You entrusted a funeral home to take care of your loved one and that didn’t happen,” said Tya Modeste of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.
A total of six bodies and 154 cremated remains were found in the Hayward warehouse late last week.
Now, officials are working to reunite the remains with families in 15 different counties.
“Some of the families paid to have their loved ones remains scattered at sea and that clearly didn’t happen in a lot