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Kansas AG brings additional charges against former coroner

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Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has alleged 79 additional consumers were harmed by a Leawood man accused of providing autopsy services in violation of state law, bringing the total number to 82, according to an amended civil petition filed with the court.  

Schmidt also said the state now has control of more than 1,600 biological samples collected by Shawn Parcells, 41, of Leawood, and is working to identify family members or others with a legal claim to individual samples. He said many of the samples are small, such as vials of blood, or slides prepared for microscopes, but some are larger samples of human tissue.


The attorney general is seeking restitution for the consumers for violations of the Kansas Consumer Protection Act. The ongoing civil lawsuit alleges three counts of Kansas Consumer Protection Act violations, and 14 counts of Kansas False Claims Act violations. 

Parcells has also been charged criminally in Wabaunsee County District Court with three felony counts of theft and three misdemeanor counts of criminal desecration.