Stealing from the Dead
Indianapolis businessman Robert Nelms owns Memory Gardens. He operates more than a dozen funeral homes. Four of them are in Indiana, including Forest Lawn in Greenwood.
But it's the New York funeral home he bought in late 2003 that made national headlines. Nelms said that he had no prior knowledge about the bone and tissue harvesting taking place in the Daniel George and Sons Funeral home in the quiet working class Bensonhurst neighborhood in Brooklyn.