HOUSTON, Tx. () – A Houston woman who worked at a funeral home is accused of mutilating the body of a dead sex offender.

Amber Paige Laudermilk, 34, who was employed as an embalmer, is charged with Abuse of a Corpse, a Texas State Jail Felony.

She is accused of using a scalpel in February 2025 to savage the body of Charles Roy Rodriguez, 58, a registered sex offender, who received 10 years of Deferred Adjudication after being charged with Sexual Assault in 2001.

“This case is about two troubled people: the victim who was a registered sex offender and the defendant, who is accused of viciously attacking his dead body,” Precinct One Constable Alan Rosen said. “No matter what one thinks of his life, the law requires that he be treated with dignity in death.”

“I don’t know the suspect’s past, but we have the utmost empathy for anyone who has been the victim of a sexual assault or is the family or friend of someone who has been the victim of a sexual assault,” Rosen said. “The facts clearly indicate she was angry and I hope after this is resolved in the courts, she gets the help she needs.”

A charging document filed in Harris County states that Laudermilk stabbed and castrated Rodriguez’s body as well as carried out additional abuses.

She was in the presence of an embalming student at the time of the incident, according to the document.

Rodriguez died of natural causes at a Houston hospital in January.

He is listed in the Texas Department of Public Safety sex-offender registry.

The Texas Funeral Service Commission referred the incident to the Office of Harris County Constable Precinct One for further investigation.