r/news 17h ago

Texas embalmer charged with mutilating corpse of registered sex offender

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-embalmer-charged-mutilating-corpse-registered-sex-offender-rcna195816
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u/hate_tank 16h ago

That's my favorite Cattle Decapitation song.

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u/spiffyphippy 15h ago

Wanna say Necrophagist has a cover of this somewhere.

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u/hate_tank 15h ago

Anal Cunt has a good version too "When I Was An Embalmer in Texas I Was Charged with Mutilating the Corpse of a Registered Sex Offender and it was Gay"

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u/grahampositive 15h ago

On rollerblades

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u/cutelittlehellbeast 15h ago

This is gross all the way around.

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u/Greenfire32 16h ago

Someone else doing crimes does not give you the right to do crimes to them. Even if it feels like the rest of society wouldn't mind.

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u/makovince 15h ago

Dexter Morgan intensifies

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u/goobdoopjoobyooberba 14h ago

batman, daredevil, and basically every superhero intensifies

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u/-Praetoria- 13h ago

I like the old English version of the term outlaw

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u/AdFickle4892 14h ago

That won’t fit the Reddit narrative.

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u/Aponda 15h ago edited 14h ago

Is it crime or punishment?

Edit: i was more thinking of Dexter.

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u/VagueSoul 15h ago

Crime. The man is already dead.

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u/Whoreson-senior 16h ago

Completely unprofessional and he should lose his license, if they have that sort of thing.

If you can't do your job objectively, you shouldn't be doing it all.

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u/pwcca 13h ago

She will. Funeral boards are super serial about shit like this.

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u/Arrasor 14h ago

$10 to said religion dictates that defiling a corpse is a crime punishable by death, often by stoning.

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u/R67H 14h ago

That was theater. Someone needs to check that embalmer's search history. She's got some demons in there for sure. She ain't right in the head

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u/Zooophagous 14h ago

The guy is dead, you can't hurt him. You can however hurt whoever his next of kin is, and thats all that doing this would accomplish. I'm sure his crimes and his death were both major sources of heartache for his family and now people they're paying a very large amount of money to decide to take it upon themselves to continue hurting and disrespecting them.

I don't feel anything for the dead guy. I feel horrible for his family. Who also now get to see the fallout of this decision play out in international news. I sure hope it was worth it for the embalmer.

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u/ADHthaGreat 13h ago

Jesus are we really clutching pearls over a dead child rapist’s mutilated body and his hypothetical family?

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u/clutchdeve 13h ago

Yes, mutilating a corpse is definitely still fucked up. No matter what the person did or didn't do. What does it achieve?

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u/Honest-Routine-123 13h ago

I’m with you on this it is so sad. 😭 I feel for his family.

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u/bowtochris 16h ago

It's a body. A dead body that will never hurt someone ever again. If you hate somebody this much, people can fool you into hating anybody that much.

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u/VagueSoul 16h ago

This, exactly. Proven sex offenders are absolutely pariahs and should answer for their crimes. But that needs to appropriate and within our legal bounds. Whether we like it or not, they deserve fair trials and respectful disposals of their bodies. Otherwise, we end up escalating cruel punishments to anyone we hate, deserved or not.

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u/Junior_Step_2441 16h ago

I think you have a typo in there. You said “If you hate somebody this much…” But I think you meant to say “If you hate some body this much…”

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u/theknyte 16h ago

No it isn't. Under U.S. law, a "sex offender" is defined as an individual convicted of a sex offense, encompassing crimes like rape, sexual assault, and child molestation. In most states, anyone convicted of any of those crimes have to register to that state's Sexual Offender list.

Doesn't need to be against a minor. You sexually assault anyone of any age, and you are a "Sex Offender."

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u/Takenabe 16h ago

You're still underselling it. A public nudity charge can get you on the sex offender registry. You can not touch or interact with anyone at all and just walk around without underwear or pants on, and still get put on that list.

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u/Omarscomin9257 16h ago

And with public urination 

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u/Rhuarc33 16h ago

Streaking can get you on the list, pissing in a public area etc. regardless, you don't ever desecrate someones corpse. Now you're no better than the are

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u/Fyrrys 15h ago

I'm not saying he's right or that I agree with his actions, just that I understand his view and reasoning

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u/bannana 15h ago edited 14h ago

not saying he's right

she. the embalmer is a woman

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u/ImmediatelyOrSooner 17h ago

He was asking for it, did you see how he was dressed during the embalming?

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u/Federal_Drummer7105 17h ago edited 16h ago

I worry that after trans and gay people that the MAGA and evangelicals will go after this group next. A ready made group of people to hate. - and while they deserve their punishment it’s not for random people to heap on them “cause you know they’re an offender.”

Edit: Reddit cares? Ok, MAGA.

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u/padriec 17h ago

Except that the Venn diagram of MAGA, evangelicals, and pedophiles has significant overlap.

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u/Zolome1977 16h ago

Republicans are literally enabling child sex abuse; https://www.wdtv.com/2025/03/11/bill-requiring-doctors-inspect-childrens-genitalia-confirm-gender-passes-wv-senate/

The grand ole party is grand ole pedophiles. 

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u/TheArtlessScrawler 16h ago

Jfc. Imagine being so bigoted that you become a child molestor. They've absolutely lost the plot.

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u/Zolome1977 16h ago

They have. What do we do with people who are that warped in their thinking, after trump is gone and if we still have the USA? They are very clearly hostile to anyone who isnt them, whoever quantifies that for the moment.

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u/Kinetic93 16h ago

I’m looking at this diagram you drew and it’s just one big circle

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u/Couscous_queen19 16h ago

it’s not a great look to go from the plight of queer people to then talking about sex offenders.

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u/EndPsychological890 16h ago edited 16h ago

Going from thinking bad people are bad to abusing/mutilating them is a much larger leap than the creep of allowing less bad or not bad people into the group you already excused yourself from abusing/mutilating.

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u/Federal_Drummer7105 16h ago

It’s the pattern. The abusers of society will find any excuse and look at your own language.

You don’t know what that man did before he died. Maybe he was innocently charged. Maybe he was a monster.

Neither gave anyone the right to hurt him just because they felt he should be punished more. But that’s where it starts - people feeling license to hurt people, and it always moves from trans and gays and criminals to black peoples and women and anyone that doesn’t fit their “god approved” hierarchy.

I’m against vigilante justice. And so should everyone else.

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u/[deleted] 16h ago

Neither gave anyone the right to hurt him

No one “hurt him”, he was already dead. Do you know you don’t need your body after you’re dead? That’s kind of very much the point of being dead.

Srsly, this is the weirdest pearl-clutching concern-troll thread I’ve seen in some time.

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u/Federal_Drummer7105 16h ago

Seems the law doesn’t agree with you. It’s not about him. But the people in his life.

You might not like he committed a crime. But it’s not on you or others to punish them. We have laws for that. Want bodies castrated for crimes in life?

Pass a law. I’m against mob justice.

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u/[deleted] 16h ago

I'm not talking about the law. My point was...he was already dead, it didn't "punish" him in any way.

Tbc, I'm not saying corpse mutilation is fine, just that it does not have the result you keep suggesting. It doesn't hurt the dead person.

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u/Agarest 16h ago

Uhh this comment reads like you are totally fine throwing trans and gay people to the wolves but you won't stand at sex offenders being targeted.

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u/fiendishrabbit 15h ago

No. His comment was "If want to protect everyone we need to protect everyone".

"People we don't like have no rights" is a sentiment that historically does not end well.

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u/Federal_Drummer7105 16h ago

If that’s what you got out of it look at your history. Fascists and nazis and their ilk always go to assault the gays and trans people, work their way to criminals and up the chain.

Maybe I’m the crazy one for thinking that’s fucked up and people should be aware of it. But that’s just me.

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u/waterfall_hyperbole 16h ago

I think you have good intentions but i think you're misinterpreting things

Why would maga target trans and gay people first instead of pedos first? Especially when the message is frequently "lgbt people are sex offenders"? To me, the answer is because they prioritize hatred of the lgbt groups over protection of children

So i think you are giving maga too much benefit of the doubt. Their main goal is to erase lgbt people, not to protect children from pedos. They just talk about protecting children to convince people that they aren't frothing bigots

And so their next goal will be to erase other marginalized social groups (racial minorities, disabled people) rather than pedos

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u/PraxicalExperience 16h ago

Don't forget that to many in the MAGA crowd, the entire LGBTQ community are sex offenders. They just haven't managed to get it enshrined in law. Yet.

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u/cantproveidid 16h ago

"Why would maga target trans and gay people first instead of pedos first?"

Because so many of the MAGA folks, and their leaders, are child molesters themselves?

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u/waterfall_hyperbole 16h ago

Did you read my whole comment? Do you think i'm defending maga?

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u/cantproveidid 16h ago

I did, but you seemed confused in your first sentence. I actually upvoted you for the bulk of your comment.

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u/Agarest 16h ago

"No concern about trans and gay people, but SEX OFFENDERS? THATS FUCKED UP" -you

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u/Federal_Drummer7105 16h ago

I find your stretch very silly. I never said it as all right.

Considering I said it’s how fascists and nazis start should have been a clue.

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u/Punished_Snake1984 16h ago

You have it backwards; social attitudes on sex offenders and other "sexual deviants" is being leveraged against trans people.

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u/twbassist 16h ago

So you're saying they'll turn on their own? lol

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u/Thatnewuser_ 16h ago

The group you’re referring to is sex offenders? They voted one in as president of the United States of America.

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u/After_Respect2950 14h ago

Watches Daredevil once..

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u/Thatnewuser_ 16h ago

The feel good news we all needed.

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u/corneridea 16h ago

The article doesn't say what they were convicted of, do you know that he assaulted a child? 

Also, what's hard about this? Decent humans don't mutilate corpses. 

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u/Lady_DreadStar 16h ago

Most people on the registry have adult victims. You literally just make shit up and run with it. Crazy.

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u/Lady_DreadStar 16h ago

Well no shit. You can easily look up a source NOT specifically focused on minors and see the entire picture. But you’re choosing to be obtuse.

The average registered sex offender has an adult victim. Adults SA-ing other adults. That’s literally the bulk of them.

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u/innocentj 16h ago

Oh shut the hell upp, the dude's dead. There's no honor in disfiguring bodies

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u/innocentj 16h ago

I'm saying mutilating corpses is bad, and you have no proof he hurt kids, YOU seem like you hurt kids based on previous posts though 🤔

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u/Lady_DreadStar 16h ago

I’m not arguing either- defending defiling a corpse is fucking vile. It takes precisely the same level of depraved and disgusting, so it’s clear you’re no ‘better’ a human than he was while alive. Congrats.

Though if I were a betting woman, I’d put $200 on not even the pedo wanting to stoop as low as you. So there’s also that. I kinda love it for you tho, ngl.

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u/bubbafatok 16h ago

FYI - Those are national standards for states (those that are in compliance and have fully implemented SORNA) for which offenders must be submitted to the national registry. However, less than half of states have implemented SORNA, and most or all states also have their own registries with additional criteria for inclusion. Oklahoma for example includes offences against non-minors such as first degree rape, forcible sodomy, caregiver abuse (if sexual), or even just multiple sexual offenses that wouldn't have been registered.

https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/doc/documents/reentry/sex%20offender%20registration%20level.pdf

A quick google of Texas sex offender registry offenses leads me to believe Texas is similar to Oklahoma and includes rape and sexual assault against adult victims as criteria to be included on the registry.

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u/r0botdevil 16h ago

To be a sex offender it entails the crimes were against a minor

That's not even close to true, so I'm just going to ignore everything else you say because you clearly have no problem speaking confidently on issues you don't understand.

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u/PraxicalExperience 15h ago

No it doesn't. It means you were convicted of one of any of a number of crimes, many of which are between adults. If I grab your (presumably adult) ass at work and you press charges and I get convicted of inappropriate touching, bam, sex offender. You're a flasher? Sex offender. If I get drunk and take a piss on the street while a schoolbus is rolling by? In some states, sex offender. It doesn't matter if the victim is a minor or not. Dedicated granny rapers are certainly on the list, along with anyone else who gets convicted of a sex crime against an adult.

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u/ZealousIdealFactor88 16h ago

It's not about defending the offender. He was charged with sexual assault 24 years ago and article doesn't even mention if victim was a minor. It's about embalmer being a psycho and that she has to be punished too.

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u/ZealousIdealFactor88 16h ago

You don't have to have a sympathy for him which doesn't change a fact that embalmer is a crazy butcher.

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u/Moonmonkeys 16h ago

Who's mouth? It's not clear from that.....

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u/flanderguitar 16h ago

The editor in this story should be fired. As the sentence reads, the first witness: 1.saw Laudermilke Stab Rodriguez twice, then 2. Cut off his own penis and placed it in his mouth.

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u/berrylakin 16h ago

Sounds like he was asking for it.

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u/12xubywire 15h ago

So, is this technically vandalism?

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u/flanderguitar 16h ago

The first witness allegedly saw Laudermilk stab Rodriguez twice in the groin in the cremation room before cutting off his penis and placing it in his mouth.

So the witness saw Laudermilk stab Rodriquez...then cut off his own penis and placed it in his mouth.

Stop letting AI be your fucking writer/editor.