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A former North Carolina body parts harvester was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for what prosecutors described as a heinous fraud scheme in which he falsified medical records of cadavers so tissues could be sold for transplant.
A former mortuary worker convicted of carving up and selling cadavers donated to the University of California at Los Angeles' medical school was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday and ordered to pay more than $1.7 million.
A former New Jersey funeral director has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a ring that illegally harvested body parts.
A man was convicted Thursday of carving up cadavers donated to UCLA's medical school and selling the parts to unsuspecting medical research companies in a $1.5 million scheme.
An upstate New York woman who helped illegally remove bone and tissue from corpses in 2005 has been convicted on 103 counts.
British police on Thursday named a man whose body parts were found strewn across the English countryside and said they have arrested two people in connection with the case.
A man accused of buying and reselling human body parts donated to a University of California medical school conspired with a school official when they realized the scheme was profitable, prosecutors said during opening statements Wednesday.
It is a macabre challenge to detectives: Establish the identity of a murder victim whose body parts have been found in several different locations in the English countryside north of London.
A former North Carolina body parts supplier pleaded guilty Monday to mail fraud after prosecutors accused him of falsifying cadavers' medical histories and blood samples so he could sell potentially tainted tissue for transplant.
The former chief of UCLA's cadaver program has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for his role in selling donated body parts.
A former funeral director in Rochester, N.Y., has been sentenced to six to 18 years in prison for allowing body parts to be removed without permission from 17 corpses.
A former funeral director in upstate New York was convicted Friday of illegally harvesting body parts from corpses that were then sold to a company that marketed such material for medical procedures.
Three men who conspired to plunder corpses and sell the sometimes diseased body parts were sentenced to prison Wednesday for what victims said was a gruesome, greedy scheme that violated basic principles of trust and human decency.
The former chief of UCLA's cadaver program pleaded guilty Friday for his role in selling donated body parts to medical, drug and research companies in a scheme that netted up to $1 million, prosecutors said.
A judge Tuesday ordered separate trials for three funeral home directors and four former employees of a biomedical supply company accused of looting body parts from three dozen corpses.
Two brothers who ran a pair of funeral homes and a crematorium admitted Tuesday that they sold corpses to a company that trafficked stolen body parts, a macabre scheme that left families aghast and unclear about the fate of their loved ones.
A funeral director accused of illegally harvesting body parts from corpses pleaded guilty Wednesday to 248 felonies related to the case.
The mastermind behind a multimillion-dollar scheme to loot hundreds of corpses and sell bone and tissue for transplants was sentenced Friday to 18 to 54 years in prison after he apologized to the horrified families of the deceased.
A man convicted of secretly cutting up corpses — including that of "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke — has received a sentence of nine to 27 years in prison for his role in a ghoulish multimillion-dollar body parts scheme.
The former head of UCLA's cadaver program and a businessman were indicted Friday on eight felony counts involving black market sales of donated human body parts in a scheme that allegedly cheated the university out of more than $1 million.
A judge on Monday convicted a man of secretly cutting up corpses — including that of "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke — as part of a multimillion-dollar body parts scheme.
A woman whose severed hands and feet were found outside two homes about a mile apart had known her life was in danger, her mother said Tuesday.
The daughter of "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke came face to face Monday for the first time with the man accused of hacking up her father's corpse in a multimillion-dollar body parts scheme.
The mastermind of a scheme to plunder corpses from funeral homes and sell them for millions of dollars pleaded guilty in a deal that could send him to prison for the next five decades.
Prosecutors had misgivings after making a plea deal with a man accused of plundering dead bodies and selling their parts to tissue companies for transplants.
Teachers, parents meet after controversial lessonTeachers and Parents met in Sandwich, MA, after a science teacher gave a lesson to fifth graders showing them pictures of the lung, brain, tissue, heart, and spleen. He also showed them pictures of the female's egg and a fertilized embryo.
11 Body Parts Named After People "Who is Paul Langerhans, and how did his islets wind up in your pancreas? Good question. Although lots of body parts take their names from Greek or Latin, more than a few are named after people.
42.90 Euros Per Arm: Inside a Creepy Global Body Parts BusinessThe German company Tutogen's business in body parts is as secretive as it is lucrative. It extracts bones from corpses in Ukraine to manufacture medical products, as part of a global market worth billions that is centered in the United States.
Baby's body parts found in sewage worksBody parts belonging to a baby have been found in a sewage treatment works near Hull, Humberside Police said.
Albinos Murdered and Body Parts Sold for WitchcraftOne person has been sentenced to life in prison and eight others to jail in Burundi over the murder of albinos whose remains were sold for witchcraft. Three other suspects were acquitted by the court in Ruyigi province over the the killings of at least 12 albinos.
WTF?!? Police find woman's head, arms in suspect's freezer"Could you please send a detective or homicide detective over to West Bay Apartments?" she asked. "We believe we have body parts in our pond and in one of our Dumpsters."
Mafia harvest body partsCrime families in Italy are paying 65,000 GBP for a kidney and take punters to private surgeons in crime-riddled Bulgaria and Romania to perform the op. Desperate businessmen are selling their body parts to Mafia families to survive the credit crunch.
'Killer' dumps victim's body parts in different villages around HertfordshireA suspected killer has dismembered a man and is dumping his body parts in different villages around Hertfordshire, police believe.
Detectives Explain Why Victim Was DismemberedBREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- It sounds like the script from a horror movie. A professional masseuse was arrested for murdering a client and then chopping his body into little pieces. But, she told detectives she can't remember a thing.
Doctor's Advice: Leave the Toilet Seat Up..."One of the longest-running spousal debates may now be settled in favor of men and for the sake of little boys.
Dog digs up child's foot; police hunt for body - CNN.comA family dog brought home a child's severed foot, but searchers combing surrounding woods in northwest Alabama found no signs of any other remains and don't know where the child might be.
Would anyone write in marker the name of their favorite brand of soda, soap, chewing gum, or breakfast cereal across their forehead? Your forehead is just standing right there, a clean, relatively flat surface to write on.
Lead body snatcher pleads guiltyThe lead "body snatcher" in a huge part-snatching crime ring pleads guilty, and is set to bring down the entire scene. He worked with two morticians in order to steal body parts from dead people for surgeries.
'Bodies' exhibit avoids a stiff penaltyThe company behind the controversial "Bodies" exhibit has agreed to document the origin of cadavers used in its show and to offer refunds to anyone who saw it.
Police: Gruesome task ahead | GreenvilleOnline.com | The Greenville NewsPolice spokesman Jason Rampey said this afternoon it's unclear whether body parts found near two separate residences this morning are from one or more than one person.
Nurse Steals 244 Body PartsOwner of Biomedical Tissue Services poised to plead guilty to plundering body parts and selling them for as much as $7000. Among the looted cadavers was Alistair Cooke, British host of "Masterpiece Theatre."
Why I bought a kidneyZurrer cashed in RRSPs to raise the $38,600 he needed for the operation and to cover the travel costs for him and his sister Ann, a nurse, to go to Pakistan.
BBC NEWS | Health | Drug addicts used as organ donorsA serious shortage of organs means transplant surgeons are being forced to use body parts from drug addicts. Between 2002 and 2007 some 450 organs came from donors with a history of drug abuse, which may affect the quality of the organ and raise infection risks.
Bags Of Body Parts Likely Dumped This Week In Gator-Infested Area...A fisherman found the plastic bags containing a human foot, leg and other human remains at about 9:15 a.m. in a swampy area of the park, Ormond Beach police said.
Weird Heists: From birch bark to body parts and pirated pigs, a listMost people picture century-old paintings, jewelry and cash as typical targets of an elaborate heist. But thieves have branched out. From birch bark to beer, or in some cases even parrots and pigs, there's been some peculiar pilfering.
Useless Body PartsFrom wisdom teeth to ear muscles to male nipples, the human body has a number of 'useless' parts. Check out these anatomical extras that humans still have but no longer need.
Missing body parts of famous people Remember that goofy uncle of yours who always tried to impress you by "stealing your nose" or pulling the ol' separating-his-thumb-from-his-hand move? Well, those parlor tricks are nothing compared to the appendage stunts pulled by these 10 famous people.
More 9 / 11 Victims Identified NEW YORK (AP) -- Two Sept. 11 victims have been identified from bones found in the past 15 months on a vacant skyscraper's roof and underneath a service road at ground zero, officials said Thursday.
Dismembered Member Remembered - New York TimesTHE owner of Napoleon's penis died last Thursday in Englewood, N.J. Meaning someone other than Napoleon himself. In case that wasn't clear.
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