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Lodge sometimes took the body parts — which included heads, brains, skin and bones — back to his home, where he lived with his wife, Denise, 63, and some remains were sent to buyers through the mail, authorities said. Lodge also allegedly allowed buyers to come to the morgue to pick what remains they wanted to buy.
Bodies donated to Harvard Medical School are used for education, teaching or research purposes. Once they are no longer needed, the cadavers are usually cremated and the ashes are returned to the donor's family or buried in a cemetery.
People probably use the dead organs to further study the human anatomy (they been studying it for centuries while the human anatomy is the same today as it was in the time of Ancient Egypt), witchcraft (hey, it happens), to make a special drinkable juice, whatever. The point is people have uses for those dead organs, understandable ones and disgusting ones.
According to the U.S. Attorney from the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Pauley was one of six people charged in connection with trafficking stolen human remains. Authorities said those body parts were stolen from the Anatomical Gifts Program at Harvard Medical School.
That indictment stated Pauley received human skin from people in Boston, that he allegedly tanned and turned into leather.
A woman from Massachusetts who owns a store that sells "creepy" things bought two faces. I'll bet she could make some "art" with it and sell it from the back of the store for some good money. Also two stillborn babies were sold. Imagine what they would do with those. This is about collecting and crafting items using human parts for a hobby. Perhaps there are also fetishists using them for even more disgusting purposes.
I had the same question although my basic knowledge tells me those organs are dead and can't be used as transplants.
I'm sure they will argue the body was to be cremated anyway so no loss but it's still a disgusting act.
Exactly and I'm not surprised someone didn't do it before these guys. You never know what a school does with remains if it can't use them they sell them because they need the money more. It's es[ecially disturbing because it's Harvard...
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Here is one of the people(?) involved in buying parts.
A woman from Massachusetts who owns a store that sells "creepy" things bought two faces. I'll bet she could make some "art" with it and sell it from the back of the store for some good money. Also two stillborn babies were sold. Imagine what they would do with those. This is about collecting and crafting items using human parts for a hobby. Perhaps there are also fetishists using them for even more disgusting purposes.
Beyond disgusting. I'm not surprised though, people profit from donated bodies. I've said it in a few body donation threads on CD, one was a womans veteran husband she had donated to a broker company that bought the body when it was focused in an pay per view autopsy that charged about $800 a head. She was not happy because he specified medical research. IIRC his body was not used or accepted because of possible COVID or he was too old, may have had surgeries where body parts had already been implanted to him such as a back fusion.
A number of the old west outlaws feared this kind of crap more than they did being killed. They still got put on display and dissected.
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