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Funeral home director to stand trial after allegedly leaving body unrefrigerated for a week

July 1, 2023 / 10:19 AM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh

Funeral director to stand trial

MUNHALL (KDKA) - A local funeral director accused of leaving a body unrefrigerated for more than a week will stand trial.

According to a report from the Trib, the body was "practically unrecognizable" when it was found behind Michael Aldrich's Funeral Home in Munhall

Aldrich allegedly told the man's family that his body has been cremated when they tried to transfer the body to a different provider.

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Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports communication, Patrick decided to pursue his dream of working in journalism in his hometown and joined the CBS Pittsburgh team in 2019.