MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – The state’s former chief forensic officer faces new charges that she falsified records in connection with cremations in Hillsborough County.

Kathrine Wieder has been indicted on 16 counts alleging she falsified cremation records and hid records from investigators.

She is accused of falsely certifying that she had inspected bodies before cremation. She faces similar charges in Merrimack and Rockingham Counties.

Rockingham County officials began investigating Wieder and former assistant deputy medical examiner Gene Nigro for fraud last winter. Nigro has pleaded guilty to drug and fraud charges.

The investigation led police in February to the unregistered Bayview Crematory in Seabrook, where they found a decomposing body in a broken cooler, unmarked urns filled with ashes and two bodies being cremated in the same oven.

The business is being sued by a group of four Maine families who claim the crematorium mishandled their loved ones’ remains. The lawsuit, filed in June in Portland, Maine, seeks money for negligence and emotional distress from the crematorium’s owners, its former owner, and several funeral homes and directors.

That suit is similar to another class-action suit filed on behalf of 36 Massachusetts families sue.

On Monday, Bayview’s former superintendent was indicted on new charges following an investigation of the crematorium’s records between 2003 and 2005.

James Fuller, 53, of Seabrook, is accused of doctoring death records for three bodies in May 2003 by photocopying the signature of a Massachusetts doctor to make it appear the bodies had been inspected before they were burned.

According to a police, the records include more than 50 forged cremation certifications, evidence that at least 20 cremations were done without required cremation certificates, evidence that more than 40 cremations were done without required death certificates, and two letters from Fuller to funeral directors seeking death certificates and permission to perform cremations after the fact.