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A funeral home is under investigation for allegedly selling gold teeth taken from a dead body so the owner could go to Disneyland.

Megan Hess runs both Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors and Donor Services, a company selling body parts to laboratories, out of the same building in Montrose, Colorado.

It is thought to be the only case in America of a body parts broker and funeral home sharing a building.

Mother and daughter morticians in Colorado were arrested after they were accused of charging $1,000 for cremations they often wouldn't carry out and for selling bodies and body parts, some of them diseased, without permission from grieving relatives.

Megan Hess, 43, and her mother, Shirley Koch, 66, were charged with six counts of mail fraud involving 38 decedents and three counts of illegal transportation of hazardous materials, says the US Justice Department in an unsealed indictment.

In one case it is alleged that the women shipped a head infected with hepatitis-C in the mail and on commercial flights.