Six bodies and 154 cremated remains were recovered from a suspended crematorium's Hayward warehouse, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office said Friday.
document the struggle many families faced over the years trying to locate the remains. Some saying the company's website was suspended.
Family members indicated that after their calls to Oceanview Cremations manager, Robert Smith, went unanswered, they believed their loved ones had been cremated or scattered at sea as requested. "After a period of time, they just assumed that their love one was taken care of in the way that they entrusted Oceanview to take care of them. So the remains were supposed to be spread at sea. And that clearly didn't happen," says Lt. Modeste.Part of the investigation will also be to figure out why some the remains have been in storage for all these years.
The coroner's bureau is now asking for the public's help in reuniting one unidentified body and the other remains. They say the decedents were received between 2020 and 2021. Five decedents were from Alameda County, and the sixth came from Sonoma County. Grissom's Mortuary has since sorted and alphabetized the cremated remains, which are from the following counties:
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