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NBC News is publishing the names of over 1,800 unclaimed individuals sent to the University of North Texas Health Science Center to help families find answers.
While using unclaimed bodies for this purpose remains legal in much of the country, including Texas, it’s widely viewed as unethical because of the absence of consent and the pain it can inflict ...
The University of North Texas Health and Science Center stopped using unclaimed bodies following NBC News' reporting. The Funeral Commission’s discovery raises new ethical and legal questions ...
A 10-month NBC News investigation laid out in stark detail how two of the country’s most populous counties sent unclaimed bodies to a Texas medical school, which used them for medical training ...
The then-unidentified bodies of the Clouses were found on January 12, 1981 in northern Harris County, Texas, in a boggy, wooded area just north of the Houston city limits. [1] [2] A civilian’s dog let to wander into the woods returned to its owner with a decomposing human arm. [11]
Rhonda Renee Johnson and Sharon Lynn Shaw were two teenage girls who disappeared in Harris County, Texas, on the afternoon of August 4, 1971. In early 1972, skeletal remains of both girls were discovered in and around Clear Lake near Galveston Bay. A local man, Michael Lloyd Self, was charged with their murders in 1972 and convicted of Shaw's ...
The University of North Texas Health Science Center will stop accepting unclaimed bodies following an NBC News investigation that documented how the Fort Worth program cut up and leased out the ...
The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences in the Texas Medical Center serves as the Harris County Medical Examiner and Crime Laboratory.. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences is a science-based, independent operation consisting of two distinct forensic services for the Harris County community – the Medical Examiner Service and the Crime Laboratory Service.