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A Name on a Vault Lid: The Pruitt Family Services Extortion Case

A Name on a Vault Lid: The Pruitt Family Services Extortion Case

A concrete burial vault lid stamped with PATRICIA MORROW was found leaning against a silver maple on a frosty trail-there was no cemetery within a mile and the body had been buried six weeks earlier. How did a company called Pruitt Family Services turn routine funeral paperwork into a five-year cash extortion scheme that left names on vaults as a tangible threat?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning Larry Henderson discovered the vault lid to the pattern of calls and visits that followed grieving…

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