Videos
~ Biological Resource Center update- Trial begins for body donation facility accused of fraud – ABC 15 Arizona – VIDEO
~ Body donation business accused of mishandling remains to pay out $58 million – 12news.com
~ BUCKETS OF HEADS, ARMS, LEGS AND BODIES SEWN TOGETHER – YouTube
~ ‘Bucket of heads’- Testimony released about condition of body donation center – YouTube
~ ‘Chop Shop’ insider says body donation business remains highly unregulated – ABC 15 Arizona – VIDEO
~ ‘Cooler filled with male genitalia’ found in raid of body-donation company – KRON4 – VIDEO
~ Exclusive: New details released in FBI ‘body brokers’ investigation – YouTube
~ Families sue Biological Resource Center – YouTube
~ FBI Finds Buckets Of Heads In Arizona ‘Chop Shop’ – YouTube
~ FBI finds donation center misused bodies – CNN Video
~ FBI raids Valley biological resource center – YouTube
~ FBI shines light on “human chop shop” in Phoenix – YouTube
~ FBI shines light on now shut down “human chop shop” in Phoenix – ABC 15 Arizona
~ Head sewn to torso in ‘Frankenstein manner’ at Arizona body donation center – NBC News – VIDEO
~ Hotline set up for Biological Resource Center investigation – YouTube
~ Human body parts trafficking – YouTube
~ Inside the ‘Body Snatching’ Business That Saw Donated Remains Horribly Mistreated – Inside Edition – VIDEO
~ Lawsuit: Head sewn to torso in ‘Frankenstein manner’ among gruesome findings at body donation center. An FBI agent submitted testimony describing “various unsettling scenes” during a raid on a now-defunct Phoenix body donation center in 2014 – 12news.com – VIDEO
~ Like FRANKENSTEIN! Buckets Of BODY Parts Recovered In FBI Raid On BODY Donation Center! – YouTube
~ New concerns over body donation business in Phoenix – YouTube
~ New details released in Phoenix body parts business – YouTube
~ New info in FBI ‘body brokers’ investigation – YouTube
~ No one is inspecting the Arizona body donation industry – AZ Central – VIDEO
- “more regulation on a head of lettuce than on a human head”
” target=”_blank”>~ Owner of body-donation center pleads guilty – 12news.com – VIDEO
~ Owner of human tissue donation firm pleads guilty in Arizona – FOX 10 Phoenix – VIDEO
~ Phoenix body donation company revealed to be body parts ring – 12news.com – VIDEO
~ Phoenix body donation company revealed to be body parts ring – YouTube
~ The FBI has released new documents describing new details in the case of what is described as a “human chop shop” in Phoenix. – FOX 4 News – VIDEO
~ Trial begins against body donation facility accused of fraud – FOX 10 Phoenix – VIDEO
~ Valley makes disturbing discovery after donating his mom’s body to Biological Resource Center – Dailymotion – VIDEO
~ Valley man learns mom’s body was sold for ‘blast testing’ – ABC 15 Arizona – VIDEO
~ Valley tissue bank being investigated by FBI – YouTube
~ What Could Happen if You Donate Your Body to Science – YouTube
Mainstream News
- ~ A business where human bodies were butchered, packaged and sold – Reuters Investigates
- ~ A Former Body Broker Explains Why Arizona Center Sewed Different Body Parts – Insider
- ~ An Arizona man is suing a body-donation company after it gave his mother’s corpse to the military for blast testing – Business Insider Australia
- ~ An Arizona man is suing a body donation company after it gave his mother’s corpse to the military for blast testing – Business Insider India
- ~ Arizona Attorney General Wants Body Donation Programs Regulated – KJZZ
- ~ Arizona business cut up, sold parts from bodies donated to science, court records show – AJC
- ~ Arizona business cut up, sold parts from bodies donated to science, court records show – Dayton Daily News
- ~ Arizona business cut up, sold parts from bodies donated to science, court records show – FOX23 News
- ~ Arizona business cut up, sold parts from bodies donated to science, court records show – WSOC TV
- ~ Arizona company piled up bodies and dismembered limbs instead of using them for research, lawsuit says – CNN
- ~ Arizona Company Piled up Bodies and Dismembered Limbs Instead of Using Them for Research, Lawsuit Says – NTD News
- ~ Arizona man finds out mother’s body donated to science was sold to be used in IED blast test – TheHill
- ~ Arizona Man Learns His Mom’s Body Was Sold to the Military, Then Blown Up – Phoenix New Times
- ~ Arizona man says his mother’s body was blown up in a military detonation test without his consent: report – Fox News
- ~ Arizona Man Shocked to Find Out His Mother’s Donated Body Was Strapped to a Chair and Detonated in U.S. Military ‘Blast Testing – Newsweek
- ~ Army ‘tied mum’s body to chair and blew it up’ after son donated it for research – Metro News
- ~ Biological Resource Center update- Trial begins for body donation facility accused of fraud – ABC 15 Arizona
- ~ Body donation business accused of mishandling remains to pay out $58 million – 12news.com
- ~ Body donation center kept fridge full of severed penises and infected heads – Metro News
- ~ Body donation company that cut up and sold corpses to be experimented on for profit without the consent of families is ordered to pay $58million after son found his dead mother was blown up by an IED – Daily Mail Online
- ~ Body donation firm owner sentenced to probation – ABC 15 Arizona
- ~ Body Parts Racket-Alleged in Arizona – Courthouse News Service
- ~ ‘Buckets of limbs, a cooler filled with male genitalia and a woman’s head sewn onto a man’s torso’: Lawsuit against Arizona scientific center reveals the true horror of ‘Frankenstein-style’ research involving 1,755 donated body parts – Daily Mail Online
- ~ Buckets Of Heads And Limbs Discovered During FBI Raid On Arizona Body Donation Center – All That’s Interesting
- ~ ‘Chop Shop’ insider says body donation business remains highly unregulated – ABC 15 Arizona
- ~ Civil Trial Begins In Improper Use of Body Parts At Arizona Donation Center – KNAU Arizona Public Radio
- ~ Civil trial to begin for Phoenix body donation facility accused of fraud – AZ Central
- ~ ‘Cooler filled with male genitalia’ and head attached to body in ‘Frankenstein manner’ among items found in FBI raid of Arizona body-donation company – New York Daily News
- ~ ‘Cooler filled with male genitalia’ found in raid of Phoenix body-donation company. 33 plaintiffs say Biological Resource Center lied to families and treated the deceased with a lack of dignity or respect.- Arizona Central
- ~ ‘Cooler filled with male genitalia’ found in raid of body-donation company – KRON4
- ~ Dismembered Limbs, Head Sewn Onto the Wrong Body Allegedly Found in Raid on Arizona Body-Donation Company – Time
- ~ Dismembered limbs sewn together like ‘Frankenstein’ at body-parts donation center, FBI found. A former Phoenix FBI agent said that when he raided the Biological Resource Center Inc., he “observed several unsettling scenes.” – NBC News
- ~ Ex-FBI agent details raid on Phoenix body donation facility – AP
- ~ Ex-FBI agent details raid on Phoenix body donation facility – ABC News
- ~ Families sue PHX center for selling body parts – ABC 15 Arizona
- ~ FBI agent describes finding -Frankensteins- and a -cooler full of penises- at an unregulated Arizona body-donation center – BoingBoing
- ~ FBI agents found buckets of human body parts and a torso with another person’s head sewn onto it in a horrific raid at an Arizona body-donation center – Insider
- ~ FBI agents who discovered a torso with another person’s head sewn onto it in a horrific raid on an Arizona body-donation center were so traumatized they needed counseling, court hears – Insider
- ~ FBI finds bodies sewn together and other parts in human chop shop – New York Post
- ~ FBI Finds Buckets of -Heads, Arms and Legs- in Raid on Body-Donor Facility, New Testimony Says – Newsweek
- ~ FBI Finds Bucket of Heads, Cooler of Penises, Sewn ‘Frankenstein’ Corpse at Body Donation Center – Gizmodo
- ~ FBI Finds Horrific Frankenstein-Like Experiments At Body Donation Facility In Arizona – IFL Science
- ~ FBI finds gruesome treatment of human bodies by tissue donation company – LifeSite
- ~ FBI Found Human Remains at Body Donation For-Profit- Gruesome Details – Insider
- ~ FBI found bucket of human heads, body parts sewn together ‘like Frankenstein’ at Phoenix facility – AP CNN – azfamily.com
- ~ FBI raid uncovers buckets of body parts, ‘unsettling scenes’: report – Fox News
- ~ FBI shines light on now shut down “human chop shop” in Phoenix – ABC 15 Arizona
- ~ GRAPHIC- Son learns mother’s body sold to military for ‘blast testing’ after FBI raids donation facility – WAFB 9
- ~ Head sewn in a ‘Frankenstein manner’- Court docs reveal new horrific details of Phoenix body-donor business – FOX 4 Now
- ~ Here’s What the FBI Found in a Body Donation Company – Newser
- ~ How the body of an Arizona great-grandmother ended up as part of a U.S. Army blast test: Her family hoped Doris Stauffer’s body would be used to study Alzheimer’s. The story of how she became the subject of a Pentagon experiment casts a spotlight on a growing and unregulated industry: human body brokers.- Reeuters Investigates
- ~ ‘Horror Story’ Uncovered In Raid Of Arizona Body Donation Center, Lawsuit Claims – Oxygen
- ~ How a great-grandmother’s body ended up in a U.S. Army blast test – The Dickinson Press
- ~ Human chop shop- Body donation center made Frankenstein cadavers, US Army blew ‘em up — RT USA News.url
- ~ ‘Human Chop Shop’ Ordered to Pay $58M for Selling Donated Dead Bodies – Breitbart
- ~ Human Chop Shop Owes $58M to Plaintiffs in Body Donation Lawsuit, Jury Says – Phoenix New Times
- ~ Human chop shop that sold body parts for experiments without consent ordered to pay $58 million to donors’ families – Washington Post
- ~ Illegal body donation; Stephen Gore sentenced to deferred jail, probation – 12news.com
- ~ Inside the ‘Body Snatching’ Business That Saw Donated Remains Horribly Mistreated – Inside Edition
- ~ Jury awards $58M in lawsuit against body donation firm – WBOY.com
- ~ Jury awards $58M in lawsuit against body donation firm that sold cadavers for military testing – Military Times
- ~ Jury awards $58M to 10 plaintiffs in Phoenix body donation lawsuit – AZ Central
- ~ Lawsuit: Head sewn to torso in ‘Frankenstein manner’ among gruesome findings at body donation center. An FBI agent submitted testimony describing “various unsettling scenes” during a raid on a now-defunct Phoenix body donation center in 2014 – 12news.com
- ~ Lawyer: Plaintiffs deserve $13.2 million each in body donation case – AZ Central
- ~ Man Horrified That Army Blew Up Mom’s Body After It Was Donated For Research – HuffPost
- ~ Man Says Arizona Body Donation Facility Sold His Mother’s Remains to Military for ‘Blast Testing’ – KTLA
- ~ Man suing body donation company after mother’s corpse was used for bomb testing – CBS News
- ~ Military Blew Up Woman’s Body After Buying It From Cadaver Broker – Phoenix, AZ Patch
- ~ Owner of body-donation center pleads guilty – 12news.com
- ~ Owner of human tissue donation firm pleads guilty in Arizona – Daily Herald
- ~ Owner of human tissue donation firm pleads guilty in Arizona – FOX 10 Phoenix
- ~ Owner of Phoenix body donation facility that mishandled bodies now in civil court – azfamily.com
- ~ Phoenix body donation company revealed to be body parts ring – 12news.com
- ~ Special Report- A business where human bodies were butchered, packaged and sold – Reuters
- ~ Stephen Gore- 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know – Heavy.com
- ~ Tissue donation business scheme- Owner of Biological Resource Center takes deal – FOX 10 Phoenix
- ~ Trial begins against body donation facility accused of fraud – ABC News.url
- ~ Trial begins against body donation facility accused of fraud – FOX 10 Phoenix
- ~ Trial Begins For Arizona Body Donation Center Accused Of Fraud – KNAU Arizona Public Radio
- ~ Trial Begins for ‘Human Chop Shop’ Accused of Selling Body Parts – Phoenix New Times
- ~ Trial to begin for Phoenix body donation facility accused of fraud – AP CNN – azfamily.com
- ~ Trial Underway Involving The Biological Resource Center Accused of Selling Body Parts – Legal Reader
- ~ Valley man learns mom’s body was sold for ‘blast testing’ – ABC 15 Arizona
- ~ Why the FBI raided a Phoenix body donation center – 12newsnow.com
- ~ Why the FBI Raided an Arizona Business Is Disturbing – TheBlaze
Videos
~ Josh Braswell Commercial – Alabama Organ Center
~ Whistleblower uncovers mortuary kickback scheme – YouTube
Mainstream News
- ~ Alabama Organ Center encourages AU and LSU fans to ‘Donate Life’ – WSFA 12
- ~ Alabama Organ Center kickbacks detailed – al.com.url
- ~ Alabama organ center officials in plea deal over kickbacks – Reuters
- ~ Birmingham whistleblower awarded $14.7 million in organ center probe – al.com
- ~ Ex-Alabama Organ Center chief ordered to prison for 13 months in kickback scheme (updated) – al.com
- ~ Family of dead cheerleader whose organs were donated are comforted one year on as recipients get in touch to thank them – Daily Mail
- ~ Former Alabama Organ Center Associate Director Sentenced for Fraud – FBI
- ~ Former Alabama Organ Center director sentenced to 13 months – WBRC 6
- ~ Former Alabama Organ Center executives charged with fraud – WBMA
- ~ Former Alabama Organ Center Executive Sentenced for Fraud – FBI
- ~ Former Associate Director of Alabama Organ Center sentenced in kickback scheme – al.com
- ~ Judge Awards $15M in Alabama Mortuary Worker Whistleblower Lawsuit – Insurance Journal
- ~ Judge awards whistleblower nearly $15 million – AP
- ~ Judge awards whistleblower nearly $15 million – enewscourier.com
- ~ Mortuary whistleblower threatened with being cremated awarded $15M – New York Post
- ~ Organ donations on the rise in Alabama, down nationwide – WBMA.url
- ~ Over 3,000 Alabamians are in need of a life saving organ transplant – WTVY 4
- ~ US probes Alabama organ donation center; 2 officials fired – al.com
- ~ Whistle Blower wins lawsuit against employer who threw feces at him – WBRC 6
- ~ Whistleblower threatened with being cremated alive after exposing mortuary kickback scheme – CBS News
Videos
~ A look at the business of selling human remains – YouTube
~ Convicted Detroit cadaver dealer to be sentenced on Tuesday, got an earful Monday – YouTube
~ Detroit cadaver dealer Arthur Rathburn’s fate up to a jury, faces 20 years – YouTube
~ Freezer Body Part Trade – YouTube
~ Grosse Pointe Park man charged in body broker case back behind bars – YouTube
~ Jury in Detroit-area body parts case selected, trial could last 2 weeks – YouTube
~ Licenses pulled from Detroit body parts business – YouTube
~ Man accused of selling body parts apparently sold his freezers – YouTube
~ Man who sold diseased body parts ‘deserves to fry’ says victim – FOX 2 Detroit – VIDEO
~ Metro Detroit cadaver dealer set for trial 4 years after gruesome discovery – YouTube
~ Tracy Smolka at sentencing for body broker Arthur Rathburn in Detroit – YouTube
~ Trial for Detroit man accused of buying diseased bodies and selling them – YouTube
~ W5: Body parts sold in the U.S. and illegally delivered to Canada – YouTube
Mainstream News
- Rathburn’s ex-wife and business partner, Elizabeth, testified that they bought body parts from companies that encourage people to donate their bodies to science. In an effort to boost profits, she testified, the Rathburns sometimes bought infected bodies and parts, which are sold at discount because few medical entities want them for training or education. Elizabeth Rathburn pleaded guilty to fraud, and she cooperated with the prosecution. During testimony before the federal jury in Detroit this month, she said that she expects her sentence will be between four and 10 months.
~ 2 Arrests Made In Colorado Funeral Home Scam – YouTube
~ A Colorado funeral home is accused of victimizing families after claims that it secretly sold body parts in the hours after death. – ABC 7 Denver – VIDEO
~ Colorado funeral home operators indicted in alleged body-part selling scheme – YouTube
~ Families Reveal Disturbing Details Following Funeral Home Raid – YouTube
~ FBI probe funeral home with links to body parts business – Newsday – BBC – VIDEO
~ FBI Raids Montrose Funeral Home Accused Of Donating Dismembered Bodies – YouTube
~ FBI To Test More Human Remains In Funeral Home Investigation – YouTube
~ For nearly a decade, two Colorado funeral home operators illegally sold body parts — and, in some cases, entire bodies — without families knowing about it and often gave them ashes that didn’t belong to their loved ones, federal prosecutors announced on Tuesday. – ABC 7 Denver – VIDEO
~ Funeral home accused of doubling as body parts broker – YouTube
~ Funeral home owner ‘sold gold teeth from dead body’ – YouTube
~ Funeral Home Services Suspended After FBI Raid – YouTube
~ Montrose Funeral Home Operators Arrested For Illegally Selling Body Parts – CBS Denver – VIDEO
~ Regulators investigate Montrose funeral home doubling as body parts broker – YouTube
~ Selling body parts- The secret black market industry in Colorado – ABC 7 Denver – VIDEO
~ Sunset Mesa Victim Speaks Out – YouTube
~ Verdict in Arizona ‘human chop shop’ case could reverberate in Colorado – YouTube
~ Woman sues funeral home accused of selling her mother’s body parts – YouTube
Mainstream News
Videos
~ Chicago father, son accused of selling body parts on black market – YouTube
~ Father And Son Charged With Selling Diseased Body Parts In Alleged Brokering Scheme – YouTube
~ Father and son from Rosemont accused of selling diseased body parts on black market – WGN-TV – VIDEO
~ Feds raid Chicago operation linked to Detroit body parts business – YouTube
~ New documents reveal chilling details of alleged ‘body broker’ ring – ABC7 Chicago – VIDEO
~ Secretary Of State Jesse White Says Legislation To Be Introduced Would Prevent Future Sale Of Body Parts – CBS Chicago – VIDEO
~ Suburban Body Collection Center Was Selling Parts, Feds Believed – YouTube
~ What Happens When Bodies Are Donated to Science? – Al Jazeera America – VIDEO
~ Woman Wants Legislation After Her Father’s Body Parts Were Sold In An Alleged Black Market Body Part Brokering Scheme – CBS 2 Chicago – VIDEO
Mainstream News
Videos
~ “Body Brokers” Make Money Off The Dead – NBC Chicago – VIDEO
“Body Brokers”
- A How-to Letter for Planned Parenthood: Pandora’s Box of Selling Body Parts
- ‘Body Brokers’ Get Kickbacks To Lure People With Addictions To Bad Rehab – Nevada Public Radio
- Body Brokers Leave Trail Of Questions, Corruption – HuffPost
- Body Brokers Leave Trail of Questions, Corruption – ICIJ
- “Body Brokers” Make Money Off The Dead – NBC Chicago
- ‘Body Brokers’ review- Scam preys on drug users in thriller – Los Angeles Times
- Body Donation Investigation — FBI
- Body Donation Programs In 3 States, Including Michigan, Under Scrutiny – CBS Detroit
- Disturbing FBI investigation involves cadavers, body parts, and possible black market connections – Digital Dying
- Exporting Americans: Body brokers supply the world with American heads, limbs and torsos – The World
- FBI investigating cadaver donation programs in at least three US states – The Guardian
- In Science’s Name, Lucrative Trade in Body Parts – The New York Times
- Inside the American ‘body broker’ industry: Medical businesses are supplying the world with torsos, limbs and heads – but relatives of the donors say their loved ones were duped by the highly unregulated industry – Daily Mail
- People With Addictions Lured To Bogus Rehab Treatment Via ‘Body Brokers’ – NPR
- Skin and Bone: Recycling dead humans into medical implants is a lucrative trade, rousing concerns about how tissues are obtained – ICIJ Investigation
- Special Report U.S. body brokers supply world with torsos, limbs and heads – Reuters
- The ‘body brokers’ making a killing selling human corpses ‘like 19th century grave robbers’ – The Irish Sun
- The ‘body brokers’ making a killing selling human corpses ‘like 19th century grave robbers’ – The Sun
- The Body Trade: Cashing in on the Donated Dead. A Reuters series – Reuters Investigates
- Part 1: In the U.S. market for human bodies, anyone can sell the donated dead – Reuters Investigates
- Part 2: A Reuters journalist bought human body parts, then learned a donor’s heart-wrenching story – Reuters Investigates
- Part 3: How one company made a fortune selling bodies donated to science – Reuters Investigates
- Part 4: In a warehouse of horrors, body broker allegedly kept human heads stacked on his shelves – Reuters Investigates
- Part 5: Mystery in the woods: In 2014, a woman’s severed head was found. Who is she? – Reuters Investigates
- Part 6: Cadavers in the ballroom: Doctors practice their craft in America’s favorite hotels – Reuters Investigates
- Part 7: A business where human bodies were butchered, packaged and sold – Reuters Investigates
- Part 9: Made in America: U.S. body brokers supply world with human torsos, limbs and heads – Reuters Investigates
- The FBI Is Shutting Down Shady Cadaver Centers Left and Right – The Atlantic
- The Seamy Side Of The Human Tissue Business – NPR
- Yes, Reuters Really Did Buy Two Human Heads and a Spine – Gizmodo