An embalmer in Houston was arrested and charged with abuse of a corpse this week after allegedly castrating a lifeless intercourse offender, stabbing him twice and shoving his severed genitals down his throat.
Amber Laudermilk allegedly dedicated the crime in entrance of an embalming pupil on the Memorial Mortuary & Crematory final month.
Laudermilk allegedly informed the scholar, “You didn’t see something,” after she took a scalpel to 58-year-old Charles Roy Rodriguez’s groin.
The New York Publish reported that in accordance with the charging paperwork, when questioned why Rodriguez was “disfigured,” Laudermilk stated he had “so much occurring with him.”
It’s unclear how Laudermilk knew Rodriguez was a intercourse offender. He was convicted of sexually assaulting a lady again in 2001.
Police stated Laudermilk turned herself in and a $5,000 bond has been set.
Full statement from Harris County Constable Precinct 1:
Embalmer charged with castrating corpse of intercourse offender.
A Houston lady who labored at a funeral house is accused of mutilating the physique of a lifeless intercourse offender.
Amber Paige Laudermilk, 34, who was employed as an embalmer, is charged with Abuse of a Corpse, a State Jail Felony. Texas Division of Legal Justice
She is accused of utilizing a scalpel in February 2025 to savage the physique of Charles Roy Rodriguez, 58, a registered intercourse offender, who acquired 10 years of Deferred Adjudication after being charged with Sexual Assault in 2001.
“This case is about two troubled folks: the sufferer who was a registered intercourse offender and the defendant, who’s accused of viciously attacking his lifeless physique,” Precinct One Constable Alan Rosen stated. “It doesn’t matter what one thinks of his life, the regulation requires that he be handled with dignity in dying.”
“I don’t know the suspect’s previous, however we now have the utmost empathy for anybody who has been the sufferer of a sexual assault or is the household or buddy of somebody who has been the sufferer of a sexual assault,” Rosen stated. “The details clearly point out she was offended and I hope after that is resolved within the courts, she will get the assistance she wants.”
A charging doc filed in Harris County District Clerk’s Workplace states that Laudermilk stabbed and castrated Rodriguez’s physique in addition to carried out extra abuses. She was within the presence of an embalming pupil on the time of the incident, in accordance with the doc.
Rodriguez died of pure causes at a Houston hospital in January.
He’s listed within the Texas Division of Public Security sex-offender registry.
The Texas Funeral Service Fee referred the incident to the Workplace of Harris County Constable Precinct One for additional investigation.
