NJ Funeral Home Denies Leaking Whitney Houston Casket Image

A Newark, NJ funeral home owner claims the most obvious answer to who leaked a controversial photo of the late Whitney Houston isn't necessarily the right one.

Carolyn Whigham, who owns and operates Newark's Whigham Funeral Home, denies that she or her business' employees leaked a photo of Houston laying in her casket to the National Enquirer, reports The Huffington Post.

She does have theories, though.

Both The Huffington Post and New Jersey Star-Ledger claim that while Whigham maintains she didn't leak the photo nor her people, she has an idea who did. Likewise, so did two pastors who took part in Houston's memorial service. They just apparently won't be the ones to out the responsible party or parties publicly. Whigham does claim to have determined that the photo was taken Feb. 17, a day before Houston's funeral.

Speculation had initially been that Whitney's ex-husband Bobby Brown's sister, Tina, might've snapped and sold the photo.

"It's up to the Houston family to release the name," said. Rev. Jethro James of Paradise Baptist Church. The Star-Ledger also claims that Cissy Houston, Whitney's mother, also wants to know who snapped a photo of Whitney's body being wheeled out of the Beverly Hill Hilton, where Houston was declared dead in her hotel room the evening of Feb. 11. Cissy has claimed that the Beverly Hills Police Department has taken up investigating that, but a police representative claims that snapping the photo in itself wasn't a crime.

A defending statement from the National Enquirer actually went as far as to call the casket photo "beautiful."