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HBO’s The Mortician Revives Scrutiny of David Sconce’s Alleged Unsolved Murders

The series concludes with Sconce implying he killed three people, prompting calls from its director for prosecutors to launch fresh inquiries.

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David Sconce being interviewed in The Mortician

Overview

  • David Sconce tells filmmaker Joshua Rofé that there are “three of them altogether” crimes he cannot discuss on camera, suggesting involvement in undisclosed killings.
  • Director Joshua Rofé likens Sconce’s remarks to the Robert Durst confession in The Jinx and urges any willing prosecutor to examine the implied evidence.
  • The Mortician revisits Sconce’s 1989 guilty plea for mass cremations, harvesting body parts for profit and hiring enforcers to attack rival morticians, which led to stricter California funeral industry regulations.
  • Despite charges of poisoning rival mortician Tim Waters with oleander in 1990, the murder count was dropped in 1991 due to lack of detectable toxins, though a toxicologist now says oleander derivatives could have degraded over time.
  • Sconce, released from prison in 2023 after repeated probation violations, participated in the documentary’s final episodes, reigniting debate over potential unsolved murders linked to him.