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Eugene

(62,659 posts) Tue Oct 17, 2023, 10:20 AM Oct 2023

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Hells Angels got rid of bodies at Fresno funeral home known as the 'pizza oven,' feds say

Source: Los Angeles Times

Hells Angels got rid of bodies at Fresno funeral home known as the 'pizza oven,' feds say

Noah Goldberg
Mon, October 16, 2023 at 4:58 PM EDT·3 min read

Merl Hefferman told the crematory manager of the funeral home that he wanted to make things disappear, prosecutors said.

The manager, Levi Phipps, thought Hefferman could only be talking about one thing: human bodies.

Federal prosecutors spelled out in the most graphic detail yet last week how Hefferman, a member of the Hells Angels of Sonoma County, used his connection at a Fresno funeral home to incinerate the body of Joel Silva, a murdered member of the biker gang, in the summer of 2014.

Those details included a new allegation: that Silva's was one of four bodies Hefferman, 54, directed to be illegally cremated at the funeral home known to the Hells Angels as the "pizza oven," prosecutors said in their sentencing memorandum.

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Hells Angels got rid of bodies at Fresno funeral home known as the 'pizza oven,' feds say (Original Post) Eugene Oct 2023 OP

That's an effective means of disposal. BlueTsunami2018 Oct 2023 #1

I read something like this in a fictional story in a book. I can't remember which book. Srkdqltr Oct 2023 #2

I guess that's how Jimmy Hoffa wound up...Just dust blowing in the wind...nt mitch96 Oct 2023 #3

BlueTsunami2018

(4,007 posts)

1. That's an effective means of disposal.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Oct 17, 2023, 10:49 AM

Oct 2023

As long as no one talks.

Srkdqltr

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2. I read something like this in a fictional story in a book. I can't remember which book.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Oct 17, 2023, 10:52 AM

Oct 2023

Truth is strange

mitch96

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3. I guess that's how Jimmy Hoffa wound up...Just dust blowing in the wind...nt

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Oct 17, 2023, 11:11 AM

Oct 2023

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