Curious about the shocking true story behind The Mortician? With mass cremations, illegal organ harvesting, and a trusted family business at the center of it all, HBO’s latest docuseries unpacks one of California’s most disturbing criminal scandals. As new interviews, court records, and eyewitness accounts surface, the dark truth behind David Sconce and the Lamb Funeral Home comes into full view.
Here’s what to know about David Sconce’s current whereabouts and what happened to Lamb Funeral Home.
Where is David Sconce from The Mortician now?
Authorities released David Sconce on parole in 2023 after he served part of a 25-year-to-life sentence imposed in 2013.
The court issued that sentence after he violated a lifetime probation order stemming from his 1989 conviction. In that case, prosecutors charged him with mutilating corpses, conducting mass cremations, and hiring men to assault rival morticians. He had served a couple of years in prison before violating probation, which led to a harsher sentence.
In HBO’s The Mortician, Sconce, now 68, appears on camera and states, “I don’t put any value in anybody after they’re gone and dead.” His actions and perspective form the core of the three-part documentary (via People.)
A Pasadena police detective quoted in the Los Angeles Times reported that Sconce denied knowing one of his alleged victims, saying, “I never met Tim Waters, I never spoke to Tim Waters… He was not an account of mine.” Former employee Danny Galambos testified that Sconce had hired him and two others to attack Waters and other competitors, for which Galambos received five years’ probation.
Does Lamb Funeral Home still exist?
Lamb Funeral Home, previously operated by the Sconce family in Pasadena, California, no longer exists.
The business lost its license and ceased operations following the scandal. According to The Mortician and archived Los Angeles Times coverage, regulatory agencies shut down the funeral home after investigations uncovered illegal cremations and desecration of bodies.
A fire destroyed the Pasadena Crematory in 1986 after an employee reportedly left the ovens running while getting high. Authorities later found bodies being cremated in bulk at Oscar Ceramics, a pottery facility using kilns designed for ceramics instead of human remains. The discovery triggered the final collapse of the Lamb family’s funeral business.
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