Owner charged after 18 decomposing bodies found at Georgia funeral home

Chris Johnson, 39, arrested after police made grisly discovery while serving eviction notice

The owner of a south Georgia funeral home has been charged with 17 counts of abuse of a dead body after 18 decomposing bodies, including those of children, were found in a cooler at the facility.

Coffee county sheriff’s office deputies were serving an eviction notice on Saturday at Johnson Funeral Home when the remains were discovered in “various stages of decomposition”, investigators said.