An Indiana funeral director pleaded guilty Friday to dozens of counts of felony theft after 31 decomposing bodies and 17 cremains were found at his funeral home last year, court docket data present.

Randy Lankford, proprietor of Lankford Funeral Home and Family Center in Jeffersonville, pays $46,000 in restitution to 53 households and faces a proposed sentence of 12 years — 4 years in jail and eight years of home incarceration, The Associated Press reported.

Lankford pleaded guilty to 43 counts of theft the place the worth of the property is between $750 and $50,000, court docket data in Clark County present. He had been charged with 86 counts of theft and one depend of corrupt enterprise affect, in accordance to the data.

The theft cost was for failing to full the funeral companies he was paid for, in accordance to the AP.

Lankford will stay in custody underneath home incarceration till a sentencing listening to on June 23, in accordance to the data. 

He nonetheless faces a number of lawsuits from individuals whose family members were among the many bodies or cremains found at his funeral home final July. 

Police in Jeffersonville made the invention after the native coroner’s workplace alerted the division to “conditions” at the funeral home on July 1, in accordance to a petition from the Indiana Attorney General looking for to droop Lankford’s license.

Authorities found that three of the ability’s 4 air conditioners weren’t working, in accordance to the petition. Bodies in physique baggage were saved in numerous rooms, the petition states, and several other had been there for an “extended” time frame. 

The bodies were in varied levels of decomposition, the lawyer common’s workplace stated.

In a civil criticism filed final week, a couple stated Lankford despatched them a plastic field final June purporting to include their daughter’s stays. 

The couple later realized that their daughter hadn’t been cremated at all — she was among the many decomposing bodies found at Lankford’s enterprise.

The go well with accuses Lankford of negligence, intentional infliction of emotional misery and breach of contract.

A message left on a quantity listed for Lankford was not instantly returned Friday evening. Lankford’s lawyer didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.