Philadelphia Funeral Director Charged With Abuse of Corpse

Unburied bodies were found in her garage in August.

A North Philly funeral home director has been arrested, months after police discovered unburied bodies in her W. Hagert Street garage on August 25th.

Janet Powell-Dailey, director of Powell Funeral Home, was taken into custody on Thursday. The arrest came months after police discovered three bodies — one in a casket, two in cardboard boxes — in the garage, alerted by the odor emanating from the “hot dingy garage.”

“Powell-Dailey was paid by the families of the deceased to provide services that were not rendered,” police said Friday in a statement about the arrest.

Among the bodies: 84-year-old Albert Andrews. “His family says Andrews died of dementia a month earlier,” 6ABC reports. “They thought he’d been cremated a day after he passed, but that apparently wasn’t the case.”

The station also reported in August that Dailey had a license to be a funeral director, but that her funeral home’s license expired last year. Both are required to perform mortuary services.

Powell-Daily faces charges of abuse of a corpse, theft and related offenses.

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