Overview

• Adeline Ngan-Binh Bui, a former employee at Capital Mortuary Services in Austin, Texas, has been charged with Abuse of Corpse Without Legal Authority and Tampering with Government Records.
• Investigators allege Bui conducted unauthorized embalming experiments on severed body parts, including injecting formaldehyde into limbs and studying decomposition effects.
• Bui is accused of fraudulently using a former employee's identity to forge or amend 128 death certificates without consent, enabling her to intake remains and collect payments.
• The Texas Funeral Service Commission and Austin Police Department have ongoing investigations into regulatory violations and criminal misconduct at Capital Mortuary Services.
• Capital Mortuary Services has been issued a cease-and-desist order for operating outside its licensed scope, while Bui awaits trial after being released on bond.