Illinois Funeral Director Marcee Dane Gets Jail Time for Cremation Cover-Up and Fraud

Marcee Dane Arrest Photo

Libertyville, Illinois

A former funeral home director in Illinois is accused of a deeply disturbing crime. She’s been accused of giving bereaved families the wrong cremated remains and has pleaded guilty in a cover-up of the fraud.

Marcee Dane, 32, of Libertyville pleaded guilty to desecration of human remains, a violation of the Cemetery Protection Act and a Class 3 felony, a release from the Lake County State’s Attorney’s office said.

According to prosecutors, Marcee Dane tried to cover up a mix-up involving a family’s ashes by first lying to the family, then getting another person’s remains and sending the family those remains to cover the mistake.

Dane even went so far as to exhume cremains and remove an identification tag in case either family discovered the error and chose to exhume the cremains, authorities said.

Marcee Dane was a funeral director at Burnett Dane Funeral Home in Libertyville, where the scandal occurred.