A 45-year-old funeral home director faces prison time after she admitted to selling body parts and corpses to medical researchers and then lying to families saying that the remains had already been cremated.

FBI agents found that Megan Hess forged at least a dozen of body-donor consent forms, with the swindler allegedly giving one grieving family an urn of concrete dust.

A former employee also said that the director, whose mother Shirley Koch is also accused of harvesting body parts, earned $40,000 by extracting gold teeth of some of the deceased and selling them.

According to reports, Hess charged $1,000 per cremation and even offered poor families free undertaking services only to sell the remains of the deceased.

Court records show that instead of cremating the bodies, she harvested spines, heads, arms, and legs and then sold them to researchers.

She was also accused of spending money she got from selling body parts on a trip to Walt Disney World.

Reports say that she increased her sales by targeting vulnerable and poor families as they grappled with a loved one’s final days.

Authorities said that Hess and her mother shipped body parts and corpses that tested positive for infectious diseases including HIV and Hepatitis B and C after making buyers believe that the remains were free from any diseases.

Selling organs such as kidneys, hearts, and tendons for transplant is illegal in the US. However, the sale of body parts and cadavers for use of education or research is not regulated by federal law.

US Magistrate Judge Gordon Gallagher scheduled Hess to be sentenced in January, with the prosecution calling for at least 12 years in jail.

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