INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
Today in New York four men, including a dentist, were charged with illegally harvesting bones and organs from more than 1000 corpses.
The story can be found in its full form here:
Organs Harvested Like Out Of Some Bad Horror Movie
This is so bad that I must now just quote directly from the article :
The four defendants allegedly made millions of dollars selling unscreened body tissue taken from the bodies of people who never consented to be donors, including that of veteran BBC broadcaster Alistair Cooke.
According to a 122-count indictment, the team forged death certificates and donor consent forms to create the appearance that the tissue was harvested legally.
Though transplant guidelines set age limits and health requirements for donors, the defendants falsified the records so that, in the case of Cooke for example, the stolen parts were listed as coming from a healthy 85-year-old who died of heart failure.
Cooke was 95 when he died in New York in March 2004 from lung cancer.
At the same time, the accused would regularly toss gloves, aprons, and other evidence of their criminal handiwork into the bodies before sewing them back up, prosecutors said.
Horrific.
