After Ohio BCI agents reported finding the cremated remains of nearly 90 people as part of an illegal funeral home operation earlier this week, many of the suspect’s bewildered and dismayed former customers have been left to wonder: whose remains do I actually have?
On Tuesday morning, Ohio BCI agents executed a search warrant at an abandoned church on Buchtel Avenue in Akron. According to court documents, agents were tipped off to the presence of cremated, human remains at the abandoned church, which was later determined to be allegedly connected to Shawnte Hardin, 41, who was indicted in 2020 and indicted again in 2021 on dozens of charges stemming from his alleged underground funeral business.
For nearly 12 years, Foreman has had what he thought was Adams’ cremated remains prominently displayed in his home. “That’s what killed me. I looked at my wife and I said, ‘Who do we have? Who do we have?’ I busted out crying. An abandoned church, that’s where my uncle is. I lost it,” Foreman said. Foreman said the revelation has re-opened old wounds, leaving him to navigate the grieving process for a second time. Equally as troubling is knowing that another family — the family whose loved one is in the urn at Foreman’s home — is also grieving.
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