On Thursday, April 10th, 2025, two owners of a Florida shop named Wicked Wonderland were arrested and charged for selling human remains on the Facebook marketplace.
ABC News journalist Megan Forrester reports that Orange City Police Department Captain Sherif El-Shami claims, “This is something I haven’t seen in the 17 years that I’ve worked for this agency.” (Megan Forrester, April 14, 2025). This is a case that has been around since December 2023 when Orange City Police received an anonymous tip stating that there was a business within the city that was attempting to put human bones on sale. Megan Forrester from ABC News also states that the person giving the tip included photos of the store’s Facebook page.
When further investigating this tip, it was discovered that two women were working for this business. The Wicked Wonderland company was a family business owned by Kymberlee Schopper (mother) and the co-owner, Ashley Lelesi (daughter). The NBC6 South Florida News reports the tip revealed that, allegedly, Wicked Wonderland was selling a variety of bones including two human skull fragments ($90), a human clavicle and scapula ($90), a human rib ($35), a human vertebrae ($35) and a fragment of a human skull ($600) (NBC6 South Florida News, April 14, 2025).
However, according to Viola Flowers from NBC News, Lelesi states that she and Schopper have been selling human bones for several years now and didn’t realize it was illegal to do so in Florida (NBC News, April 14, 2025). The daughter also stated that the bones were for educational purposes.
NBC news also states that Schopper was eventually released from Volusia County Jail on a $7,500 bond on Friday, April 11th, 2025. However, it is unknown if Lelesi is still in police custody.
