Texas Embalmer Charged With Felony Corpse Abuse After Disturbing Incident
An investigation stemming from a particularly disturbing consumer complaint filed with the Texas Funeral Service Commission in February has led Harris County authorities to charge a Houston embalmer with felony abuse of a corpse.
A March 6, 2025 affidavit prepared by Harris County District Court states that in early February, Amber Paige Laudermilk, 34, who was employed as an embalmer by a Houston area funeral home, allegedly castrated the body of 58-year-old Charles Roy Rodriguez, a registered sex offender who had died of natural causes in January.
According to court documents shared in a video on the Facebook page of the Office of Constable Alan Rosen, Harris County Constable Precinct 1 and excerpted by an Austin, Texas news outlet, Laudermilk “she stabbed Rodriguez’s genitals twice before castrating him, then ‘stuffed’ the genitals into his mouth.”
An investigation stemming from a particularly disturbing consumer complaint filed with the Texas Funeral Service Commission in February has led Harris County authorities to charge a Houston embalmer with felony abuse of a corpse.
A March 6, 2025 affidavit prepared by Harris County District Court states that in early February, Amber Paige Laudermilk, 34, who was employed as an embalmer by a Houston area funeral home, allegedly castrated the body of 58-year-old Charles Roy Rodriguez, a registered sex offender who had died of natural causes in January.
According to court documents shared in a video on the Facebook page of the Office of Constable Alan Rosen, Harris County Constable Precinct 1 and excerpted by an Austin, Texas news outlet, Laudermilk “she stabbed Rodriguez’s genitals twice before castrating him, then ‘stuffed’ the genitals into his mouth.”