HOUSTON — A Houston funeral home operator faces a cascade of felony charges in one of the most bizarre cases to hit Texas in years: forging documents to claim a dead man’s nearly $2.2 million estate, operating without a valid license, and leaving investigators staring at a Home Depot bucket filled with organs alongside dozens of unclaimed cremated remains.

Unique Green, also listed in court and jail records as Michael Green or Michael James Green, is accused of posing as the common-law spouse of 78-year-old Lawrence Gammon after his family hired the operator of A Community Funeral Home for funeral services. Prosecutors say Green then filed a forged will naming “Unique M. Green” as the sole heir and moved to seize the home, vehicles, and bank accounts.

When Houston police raided the Third Ward funeral home in November 2025, they allegedly discovered the bucket of organs and 48 boxes of cremains, some belonging to families who had been waiting since 2023. Green faces charges including theft, forgery, and tampering with government records, and was released after posting an $800,000 bond. As a condition of release, Green is barred from any involvement in end-of-life services in Harris County.

Outside court on Friday, Green offered no substantive defense. Instead, the defendant declared, “I’m a celebrity,” insulted a reporter’s shoes, and, when asked about the organs, reportedly replied they “were for you to eat for lunch.”

Local outlets have covered the case extensively, consistently referring to Green as “she” and “her,” and describing the individual as a woman or funeral home director using female pronouns. Some reports note Green is a transgender woman formerly known as Michael Green. Green has publicly identified as transgender, once stating in a 2020 interview about organizing a memorial that “I’m the first Black transgender owner of a funeral home in Texas.”

That raises a straightforward question many observers are asking: Why does much of the mainstream media insist on calling this person a “woman” and using “she/her” pronouns when court records, jail listings, and prior documentation repeatedly use the male name Michael Green, and when visual evidence from court appearances prompts widespread comments about male physical characteristics?

Green’s attorney maintains the client is innocent and that explanations exist for the evidence. The case continues in Harris County courts. Families still waiting for remains and answers about the alleged estate theft deserve facts reported without linguistic filters that treat observable reality as optional.