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Funeral directors 'sold corpses for cash'
Chris Ayres in Los Angeles
America’s bodysnatching trade was exposed in gruesome detail yesterday when three funeral directors were charged with selling corpses for $1,000 (£500) apiece so that their bones, tissue and skin could be transplanted into unsuspecting hospital patients around the world. The funeral directors are accused of forging death certificates to say that the cause of death was either a heart attack or blunt-force trauma, so that the body parts could be sold on.
At least one of the “donors” was HIV-positive and suffered from hepatitis C and cancer.
Funeral directors 'sold corpses for cash'
Chris Ayres in Los Angeles
America’s bodysnatching trade was exposed in gruesome detail yesterday when three funeral directors were charged with selling corpses for $1,000 (£500) apiece so that their bones, tissue and skin could be transplanted into unsuspecting hospital patients around the world. The funeral directors are accused of forging death certificates to say that the cause of death was either a heart attack or blunt-force trauma, so that the body parts could be sold on.
At least one of the “donors” was HIV-positive and suffered from hepatitis C and cancer.