PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Families who claim the corpses of more than 1,000 relatives were dismembered and sold in an illegal body-parts scandal sued funeral directors and others on Tuesday. picked by bevissimo 4 months ago tags undertaker body parts sold scandal hand |
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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 11 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
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 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Hair dresser accused of murdering 4 year old to use body parts to "ensure a successful business." picked by Neiako 12 months ago 8 comments edit related share plime.com |
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 1 year ago 6 comments edit related share weird |
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 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
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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 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
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 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Progress on the road to regenerating major body parts, salamander-style, could transform the treatment of amputations and major wounds picked by karenben 5 months ago 1 comments edit related share science |
Undertaker admits stealing and selling Alistair Cooke body parts 0 comments edit related share plime.comCase reveals workings of body-snatching ring that earned almost $5 million by plundering corpses picked by 2manyusernames 2 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 4 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
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 7 months ago 13 comments edit related share plime.com |
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 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
The recipient, in Cascade near Grand Rapids, said her husband opened two packages - one containing a liver, the other a partial human head. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share weird |
I think the title says it all... picked by Browntrout 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share weird |
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. 0 comments edit related share weirdJigsaw experts called in to fix the problem... picked by teaya21 2 years ago |
A tow truck driver discovered a human head in a trash bag alongside Interstate 5 Tuesday morning. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
A Central Florida man is accused of punching and attacking a body inside an open casket during a funeral. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago 7 comments edit related share plime.com |
The family of a Miami man who died 17 years ago is suing a Florida cemetery for losing his remains. The body Miguel Toledo was missing recently when his grave at Dade South Memorial Park was opened to permit his widow, Ondina, to be buried alongside him. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Three funeral directors sold 244 corpses for about $1,000 each to a New York businessman. picked by DemureArt 11 months ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
Parts of a child's body have been found at a former children's home in Jersey. 0 comments edit related share plime.comPicture not related. picked by topofall 6 months ago |