![]() “What happened here is not excusable,” he said. James Haddow, attorney for Kincer, told the jury Wednesday that he won’t be contesting Poulin’s description of the events that occurred. His lawyer, James Haddow, stands next to him. Kincer is accused of letting bodies pile up unrefridgerated in the basement of his Lewiston business in 2021. Kenneth Kincer, right, owner of Affordable Cremation Solution, watches the jury file in Wednesday at the start of a civil lawsuit against him in Androscoggin Superior Court in Auburn. Pike couldn’t face the prospect of identifying her father, whose body, like others left in that Lewiston basement, would be difficult to identify due to the likely advanced decomposition that had occurred during the intervening weeks in temperatures nearing 100 degrees.īut it was Pike’s sister, Marielle Bischoff-Wurstle, who suffered the greatest effect of the funeral home’s delays in cremating their father.īischoff-Wurstle had learned about the home’s troubles through a TV newscast that described in graphic detail the state of the corpses found there, including the description of a “reddish-brown fluid flowing into the drain in the floor.” It had been more than two weeks since her father had died. ![]() The woman told Pike that the Lewiston funeral home had been shut down by the state and the funeral director’s license had been suspended. ![]() Wurstle died May 30, 2021, and his body was collected by Affordable Cremation Solution and left unrefridgerated for nearly three weeks as the family was trying to make contact with the business. A photograph of plaintiff Marielle Bischoff-Wurstle and her father, Bruce Wurstle, is shown Wednesday during opening arguments at the trial of Kenneth Kincer, owner of Affordable Cremation Solution in Lewiston. ![]()
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