Harold Warren Sr. and his son are facing accusations they left bodies to decay for months, filled a garbage bag with the deceased organs and even gave one family the wrong set of ashes.

The Attorney General's office started investigating July 11 when they discovered a strong smell throughout the chapel. They then filed a civil lawsuit to shut the funeral home down.

When Charles Duckworth died of lung cancer on January 9 this year, he had already prepaid his funeral and cremation costs at Warren Funeral Home. Harold Warren Sr. even befriended Duckworth in his dying days and Duckworth was confident both he and his family would move on in peace.

Instead his sister Marcella Narancich says she's living a nightmare that started at Charles' service when her and another sibling smelt something fishy.

"I thought she was joking she told me 'God it smells like dead bodies' and I said 'oh come on," explained Narancich.

Narancich said during her brothers service in this chapel the smell was pungent, and employees were spraying air freshener throughout the building. Marcella expected her brother's ashes to arrive in February, but month after month Warren Funeral Home put her on hold.

"Every time I would call they would tell me oh he's having a special type of cremation," stated Narancich.

She finally received Charles ashes on Wednesday, seven months after his death, but she is one of the lucky ones.

"I feel so sorry for the rest of the families the bodies they just bought up, they're just not gonna have any they just can't go on," said Narancich.

In recent weeks state inspectors retrieved numerous bodies from Warren Funeral Home, including two un-refrigerated bodies held in the chapel's basement for nearly a year, uncovered several more bodies left in advanced decay and a garbage bag filled with the deceased organs.

"A lot of this investigation is going to be paper trail, looking at the paper trail and seeing how long a time have lasted between the death of the individual and actually being cremated and turned over to family members," stated Sgt. Ken Hammond of the Columbia Police Department.

The home even gave one family somebody else's ashes, now Marcella wonders if she is also mistaken.

"He was there so long how could they tell who he was, there's just no, I'm not going to have any closure," explained Narancich.

Investigators say what they know now is just the tip of the iceberg, with many more families unknowingly victims too.

"We want to know where all the remains are before we start contacting family members," explained Hammond.

Marcella is determined to find a way to identify these ashes, before she takes them to their final resting place - her younger brothers' favorite fishing hole.