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For years before The Mortician, the Lamb Funeral Home in Pasadena looked like any other neighborhood mortuary.
Following funeral director David Sconce's 2023 release from prison, the upcoming HBO documentary series 'The Mortician' explores the dark secrets of his family's Lamb Funeral Home in Pasadena, Calif.
David Sconce is the owner of Lamb Funeral Home in Pasadena, California, and the subject of HBO's docuseries The Mortician. He committed a series of crimes, including corpse mutilation and mass ...
David Sconce: Maybe. (Long pause) All right, so there was one night I had to go to the cemetery with Barbara. I get out and I go to unlock the gate.
The ending to HBO’s The Mortician was quite grim. If we’re being (very) generous to the docuseries’ titular subject David Sconce, it was also perhaps a bit vague. The Hollywood Reporter was ...
In the 1980s, David Sconce took The Lamb Family Funeral Home over from his parents. Under his direction, the employees of the crematorium would burn bodies well beyond the capacity of the ovens.
Apparently, David Sconce never watched The Jinx. Season 1 of HBO's The Mortician ended on Sunday with the documentary subject, a crematorium operator and convicted felon, seemingly confessing to ...
David Sconce: Maybe. (Long pause) All right, so there was one night I had to go to the cemetery with Barbara. I get out and I go to unlock the gate.
The Mortician is about the fall of Pasadena’s Lamb Funeral Home, a once-respected family-run business until Sconce took over in the 1980s. What follows is a methodical unraveling of a mortuary ...
The series centers on David Sconce, the high school football star and fourth-generation Lamb operator. His great-grandfather, Lawrence Lamb, founded the funeral home in 1929, run by Sconce’s ...
The Mortician follows the scandal behind the David Sconce-operated Lamb Funeral Home in the 1980s. Sconce served time in prison for mutilating corpses, holding mass cremations and paying strongmen ...