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Instagram, Etsy and Gumtree users could exploit a legal loophole to buy and sell colonial-era human remains, an MP fears. Bell Ribeiro-Addy told the Commons she had heard cases of body parts sold ...
The state of Florida prohibits the sale or purchase of human remains and "Authorizes certain science centers located in this state to transport plastinated bodies into, within, or out of this state and exhibit such bodies for the purpose of public education without the consent of this state's anatomical board if the science center notifies the ...
A Minnesota tattoo artist and human remains aficionado was sentenced to 15 months in prison for adding the stolen corpse of a stillborn baby boy to his collection, among other smuggled body parts ...
A body broker (also non-transplant tissue banks) is a firm or an individual that buys and sells cadavers or human body parts.. Whereas the market for organ transplantation is heavily regulated in the United States, the use of cadaver parts for research, training, and other uses is not.
The parts stolen and sold included heads, brains, skin, bones, vital organs and other human parts. [6] Other reports state that the operation allegedly sold stillborn babies due for cremation. [7] One of the indicted buyers had posted a photo of a real human skull on Instagram and another had purchased skin with the intent to make leather. [8] [9]
Agents and officers helped recover the human remains from "a remote wooded area off Stackhouse Road in Marshall, North Carolina," which will now be sent to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, the ...
On September 7, 1997, hunters in North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest found human bones, clothing, and some other items scattered in the woods near a campground. The remains, most of which were around a shallow grave, were identified as belonging to a woman between the ages of 40 and 55 with a seriously arthritic knee.
“I have been assured during each conversation with the respondent funeral home and staff that all human remains are in refrigeration since the May 17th conversation with the business owner ...