Officers found six corpses that had not been embalmed and showing signs of decomposition stored outside of a refrigeration unit.

CALLAWAY — Two local funeral home employees have been arrested after authorities found 16 corpses being mishandled, according to Bay County Sheriff’s Office arrest reports.

Gregory Dunphy, 64, and Felicia Boesch, 39, were charged Sunday with a combined total of 16 counts of unlawful storage of human remains. Deputies responded to Brock’s Home Town Funeral Home, 5907 State 77, at about 5 p.m. Sunday to a tip about the bodies being stored improperly. Officers allegedly found 16 corpses that were either being kept in the main part of the funeral home without refrigeration or in a refrigeration unit, in which the bodies are regularly kept, at an improper temperature, BCSO reported.

BCSO reports indicated Dunphy was the person to report the incident. He could not be reached for comment. Boesch also could not be reached.

An outgoing message for Brock’s phone number stated the funeral home had “permanently closed.” Brock’s website had also been shut down as of Monday.

According to BCSO reports, flies were throughout the main part of the funeral home where officers found six bodies being kept without refrigeration. In the “cooler,” ten bodies — required to be stored at no more than 40 degrees — were stored at 62-degrees, officers reported.

“None of the bodies had been embalmed,” officers wrote. “Those remains whose families requested cremation had not been cremated.”

BCSO spokeswoman Ruth Corley said their investigation revealed the funeral home was still operational at the time of the discovery.

“They were still receiving people,” Corley said. “They weren’t closed.”

The bodies of the deceased had temporarily been turned back over to the medical examiner’s office. Family members were in a state of shock as the news circulated. Some of the deceased had been with the funeral home for as long as a month under the pretense that they’d been cremated, family members said.

“It’s really disgusting. Now we have to put up money again for the cremation because the low lives took the money and didn’t do their job,” Shannon R. Luck, niece of one of the deceased, wrote on Facebook. “So over a month later, we have to have him moved from medical examiner’s office to another funeral home to hopefully move forward.”

A family member of another of the deceased said a significant amount of decomposition had set in.

“We are horrified, devastated and emotionally cannot fathom this,” said Kimberly Gates, sister of one of the deceased. “Now we can’t view her because the state she is in.”

Dunphy, director of the funeral home, told authorities he had no access to additional supplies and had run out of body bags. Dunphy told investigators Boesch was the office administrator, but her title and responsibilities were left unclear. Boesch, whose father owns the funeral home, told officers she did perform some cremations and then declined to answer additional questions, BCSO reported.

Dunphy, of Panama City, was arrested and charged with six misdemeanor counts of unlawful preservation and storage of human remains. Investigators believe Dunphy was responsible for managing the main funeral home and thus responsible for the six bodies being stored there. Boesch, of Wewahitchka, is believed to be responsible for the cooler area and was charged with ten counts of unlawful preservation and storage of human remains for the bodies kept in the cooler at improper temperatures.

Dunphy’s license as a funeral director and embalmer was active as of Monday.