School district plans to buy, demolish Downard Funeral Home

According to a report from Kalama Hines from East Idaho News, the funeral home where a dozen decomposing bodies and 61 jarred fetuses were found a year ago could soon become a parking lot.

During a meeting Tuesday, the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District 25 Board of Trustees unanimously voted to purchase Downard Funeral Home.

Board members shared ideas for options other than turning the property into Pocatello High school student parking.

“I don’t think we would want to use that building as any instructional space whatsoever,” said superintendent Dr. Douglas Howell at the meeting.

The owner of the building, Lance Robert Peck, was charged with 63 misdemeanors after an investigation. The building smelled of rotting flesh and was filled with oily bodily fluids and thousands of flies, according to recently unsealed court documents.

The school district’s letter of intent stated administrators expect its purchase of Downard for $500,000 to be completed by Oct. 14.

Read the full article HERE at East Idaho News.

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