What if you found out that when you went to visit your mother’s grave, you were visiting another person’s remains. That’s the story of Shelly Condie. Shelly’s mother, Shirley, said she wanted to have an open casket funeral before she died. However, when it came to the day of the funeral, the funeral director, Timmy Lynn Smith, kept providing the family with one excuse after another as to why they couldn’t fulfill the Condie’s request. Timmy said that her body wasn’t fit to show as an open casket because she “didn’t look too well”.
Ed Wunsch had a burial for his brother, Henry, as well. The arrangement for his funeral was none-other than Timmy Lynn Smith. Around 4 days after his burial, Ed received a phone call that Henry’s body had just left for cremation. But wait, how is it that Henry’s body just left for cremation when he was already buried? Ed found out that the buried remains were those of Gerald Resmer, another Mattawa resident. Turns out that Gerald and Henry were actually acquaintances before. So, if Gerald was in Henry’s grave, then who was buried in Gerald’s? OPP Detective Sgt. Jeff Dagg and his team sorted out several sets of cremated remains and placed them in their rightful grave.
Timmy was taken to court and faced with a multiple charges. He pleaded guilty to 48 charges but never revealed his reasoning to why he did it.
This was probably the most surprising story I have heard in a long time. To think that someone that devious and so mental could do such a thing with deceased people is just inhumane. It’s a “hard-to-believe” story but at the same time you have to believe it because it’s fact. What’s even more interesting is that Timmy, the funeral director, was known to be a thoughtful, nice person. What could change a person to purposefully rearrange dead bodies? I guess no one will ever know since he chose to remain silent of his reasoning.
