Three funeral directors sold 244 corpses for about $1,000 each to a New York businessman who trafficked in the resale of often-diseased body parts, a grand jury charged Thursday. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

Everyone's making money in the market for body tissue --except the donors. Alistair Cooke's remains were only the most famous of more than a thousand bodies plundered by Michael Mastromarino, owner of Biomedical Tissue Services (BTS). picked by Bornbad 3 years ago

Hair dresser accused of murdering 4 year old to use body parts to "ensure a successful business." picked by Neiako 2 years ago

Eleven people in Burundi are facing trial for allegedly killing, or aiding in the killing and selling of albinos and albino body parts. Police suspect that albino body parts are sold in neighbouring Tanzania, where they are used in witchcraft. picked by thirdeye 6 months ago

Malaysian police have arrested a woman in connection with the murder of a man whose body was chopped into 11 pieces and stuffed into a refrigerator in a posh apartment in the capital. Follow up to this story. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Progress on the road to regenerating major body parts, salamander-style, could transform the treatment of amputations and major wounds picked by karenben 2 years ago

Undertaker admits stealing and selling Alistair Cooke body parts
Case reveals workings of body-snatching ring that earned almost $5 million by plundering corpses picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

Aren't you glad it wasn't delivered to your house? Well, officials say there are more than two dozen other packages out there with human body parts. picked by indierockcafe 3 years ago

The body parts, sent from China, were mistakenly dropped off Thursday at Franck and Ludivine Larmande's home by a DHL driver who thought the bubble-wrapped items were pieces of a table. picked by Neiako 3 years ago

a torso was found inside the garage and that a search today for additional body parts would concentrate on the Mound and 29 Mile Road area. picked by Bornbad 3 years ago

Police are trying to determine who put bags containing human hands and feet outside two Greenville residences on Monday morning and who the body parts belonged to. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

A woman's severed head was found Tuesday in a trash bag along an interstate highway, one of eight bags containing body parts discovered beside expressways in northeastern Pennsylvania, authorities said. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

And other body parts before stabbing herself.

"At this particular scene you could have heard a pin drop," No one was speaking. It was about as somber as it could have been." Update to this story picked by suebe 4 months ago

A biomed supplier provided the parts from cadavers without consent. The Food and Drug Administration says they could be infected with the AIDS virus, syphilis and hepatitis. picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

Parts of a child's body have been found at a former children's home in Jersey.

Picture not related. picked by topofall 2 years ago

This image was based on an illustration. Features, such as eyes, eyebrows, lips and cheekbones, were etched with individual body shapes. In the studio photographer Andreas Smetana recreated the illustration in parts by shooting groups of naked talent as separate pieces of the puzzle. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Classes were cancelled when an audit found that donated bodies were being wrongly labelled after dissection and could not be put back together when it was time for burial.
Jigsaw experts called in to fix the problem... picked by teaya21 3 years ago

A tow truck driver discovered a human head in a trash bag alongside Interstate 5 Tuesday morning. picked by Bornbad 3 years ago

The body of an Asian woman has been found in the boot of a car outside the home of missing Auckland woman Anan Liu, whose daughter, dubbed Pumpkin, was dumped by her father at a Melbourne's Southern Cross railway station. Update on this story. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

I think the title says it all... picked by Browntrout 3 years ago