“David Sconce was doing something that was either illegal or immoral,” another person says. Sconce then returns and says, “I could cremate one guy in two hours, or you could put 10 of them ...

David Sconce: Maybe. (Long pause) All right, so there was one night I had to go to the cemetery with Barbara. I get out and I go to unlock the gate.

The series initially presents Sconce as a bad seed, a golden-haired high school football star who was forced into the family business after a knee injury ended his athletic career. On his mother ...

HBO's new three-part documentary series The Mortician, delves into the eerie narrative of LA's most notorious familial mortuary. In the troubling 1980s era, David Sconce seized control of Lamb ...

There is none." That quote comes from David Sconce, who once ran a notorious cremation business in Los Angeles and eventually went to prison for a slew of shady practices.

It promptly increased from 194 cremations to 1,675 in 1982, with a total of 8,173 by 1985. David Sconce (Courtesy HBO) ...

The HBO documentary 'The Mortician' revisits David Sconce’s notorious Lamb Funeral Home scandal, with the ex‑mortician speaking on camera.

Joshua Rofé’s work is infinitely watchable, even when he takes on difficult subject matter. He directed the Amazon Prime Video series Lorena about Lorena and John Bobbitt, Lost for Life, a documentary ...

The series follows David Sconce, who, in the 1980s, took over the family business. Sconce set out to exploit the deceased in a number of ways to expand the business’s earnings.

The Mortician follows the scandal behind the David Sconce-operated Lamb Funeral Home in the 1980s. Sconce served time in prison for mutilating corpses, holding mass cremations and paying strongmen ...