Klamath County Circuit Court Judge Alycia Kersey on Tuesday postponed a plea change hearing for Klamath Falls cremation business owner Maximillian Bodzin to February.
Bodzin was arrested Dec. 19, 2019 on seven counts of theft and abuse of a corpse and was held on $100,000 bail, prior to being released on his own recognizance in March.
Following investigations by Klamath Falls Police Department and Klamath County Medical Examiner John Dougherty, it was discovered that Bodzin stored seven bodies in a cooler in his business, located on East Main Street in 2019, instead of having them cremated, according to a previous
Herald & News story.
Bodzin’s attorney, Joshua Guest, asked the court for more time for Bodzin to fundraise to repay the seven families, after Bodzin allegedly failed to provide the cremation services for which they paid him as owner of Klamath Falls-based Affordable Cremation Care.