It was during the early '80s when David Sconce took over the Lamb Funeral Home, engaging in horrific and ethically repugnant methods to pad profits. READ MORE: Paul McCartney recorded Beatles song ...

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 ...

The series centers on David Sconce, the high school football star and fourth-generation Lamb operator. His great-grandfather, Lawrence Lamb, founded the funeral home in 1929, run by Sconce’s ...

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.

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Sconce did this not by building a large new facility, industrializing a largely family-run industry at a previously unheard-of scale. He did it the old-fashioned way, if by old-fashioned you mean ...

HBO’s latest docuseries, ‘The Mortician,’ dissected the crimes and scandals surrounding David Sconce and Lamb Funeral Home in Pasadena, Calif.

In 1989, he pleaded guilty to 21 felony counts, which included violence by his group of employees on rival morticians. David Sconce agreed to be interviewed extensively in HBO's "The Mortician." ...