He Called Himself the Cremation King. The Truth Was Far Worse.
True Crime Recaps25 Marras 2025

He Called Himself the Cremation King. The Truth Was Far Worse.

David Sconce was not just a mortician. He was the self-proclaimed "Cremation King of California," running what looked like a booming funeral business. In reality, he operated a cremation cartel built on greed, intimidation, and shocking abuse of the dead.

Investigators uncovered mass cremations, stolen prosthetics, and allegations that Sconce’s crew pulled gold teeth, sold body parts, and trafficked organs on the black market. The truth unraveled inside his desert crematory, where authorities found evidence of dozens of illegal cremations and widespread mutilation of corpses.

Sconce eventually pled guilty to multiple crimes, including illegal cremations, theft, and desecration of bodies. But HBO’s new documentary "The Mortician" raises disturbing new questions. At the end of the film, Sconce drops cryptic hints about three unsolved murders, including the poisoning death of rival mortician Tim Waters.

Was he bragging? Confessing? Or revealing the true depth of his criminal empire?

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