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

Hair dresser accused of murdering 4 year old to use body parts to "ensure a successful business." picked by Neiako 12 months ago

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

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

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

A duck hunter found a body Saturday of one of four children allegedly thrown from a coastal bridge by their father, raising hopes that the other bodies will be recovered, a sheriff said.

Update to picked by muppet 7 months 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

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A tow truck driver discovered a human head in a trash bag alongside Interstate 5 Tuesday morning. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

You know the world is going to hell when police say it's a possibility that the legs are from the same person and may belong with a torso found nearby.
Just how many body parts do they find up there on a weekly basis?! picked by gnikgnok 1 year 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

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

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 2 years ago

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

I think the title says it all... picked by Browntrout 2 years ago

Police found the body just before 7 p.m. local time, they said in a release. Also, one veteran firefighter, District Chief Bob Leek, died at the scene, and the whereabouts of a Sunrise employee remained unknown.

Follow up: picked by punthe 1 week ago

Chinese woman came to a hospital suffering from blood in her urine, when doctors found her body pierced inside with 26 needles. picked by maxriter 12 months ago

A body found in Kansas appears to be that of a missing college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn star, police said Thursday. picked by dollyllama 9 months ago