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Before the company moved to Arizona from Riverside, California in 1994, it became a center of controversy when a county coroner ruled that Alcor client Dora Kent ( Alcor board member Saul Kent's mother ) was murdered with barbiturates before her head was removed for neuropreservation by the company's staff.

Alcor contended that the drug was administered after her death.

No charges were ever filed ; former Riverside County deputy coroner Alan Kunzman later claimed that this was due to mistakes and poor decision-making by others in his office.