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  • 2017-03-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Was a Live Morgue Employee Cremated by Mistake? (en)
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  • On 1 March 2017, the website World News Daily Report (WNDR) reported that Beaumont, Texas, morgue worker Henri Paul Johnson was inadvertently incinerated by a coworker as he napped on the job: Also depicted in the article was Jenna Davis, a coworker who purportedly heard Johnson's death screams: As is the case with all content published by WNDR, a fake news site, there was no truth to the story. The article's photograph of the supposedly deceased morgue worker Henri Paul Johnson was actually a picture of a DeSoto County constable Christopher Plumlee, who was arrested in 2015 for DUI. And the photograph of coworker Jenna Davis was actually a picture of forensic pathologist Dr. Lisa Funte, taken from a May 2012 Beaumont Enterprise profile of her. Variations: The story was reposted by a site spoofing ABC News (abcnews-us.com) in December 2017 and March 2018: Although names and locations in the article changed, the basic premise (and its lack of veracity) remained the same. The image reproduced above accompanied the story and was taken from a March 2016 WREG report about a funeral home in Atlanta which had nothing to do with a morgue employee who was accidentally cremated. In April 2018, the fake news site 8shit.net repurposed this story as an April Fool's prank in which a morgue employee pretending to be dead was cremated by co-workers: (en)
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