One Year Later: The raid on Sunset Mesa - KKCO-TV
Jun 25, 2019KKCO/KJCT)-- It's been one year since the FBI raid on Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors in Montrose. This week, more than 60 people have filed a class action lawsuit against the funeral home, using the Englewood based law firm Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, P.C. The almost 70-page document outlines the ‘criminal enterprise and civil conspiracy of persons and entities engaged in facilitating and profiting from a heinous fraud committed upon bereaved families’. We're taking a look at what we know so far, and what else is to come. We’ve spoken with several victims of Sunset Mesa over the last year, all with a different, yet similar story. Terri Reid is one of those victims. She lives just outside of Delta in Cory, Colorado. "She picked him up at 7 o'clock that evening and had his body sold and shipped out whole before 8 a.m. that next morning, the FBI has the records,” said Terri Reid. Reid says almost half of the Cherry Acres mobile home park has used Sunset Mesa for their loved ones. When Terri's husband died of cancer, she dealt with Megan Hess’s mom, Shirley Koch who also worked at Sunset Mesa. “They were supposed to do a donation to science and whatever was left we would have cremated and we were going to be buried together….I talked with the FBI agent and that's when he told me that those were not my husband's remains and that he had been shipped, whole body, and my world went upside down,” said Reid. Terri is just one of hundreds who used Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors. The most recent class-action lawsuit filed Monday involves more than 60 plaintiffs. They are seekin...