Organ Donation Centers

Videos

~ Biological Resource Center update- Trial begins for body donation facility accused of fraud – ABC 15 Arizona – VIDEO

~ Body Brokers? Biological Resource Center Investigated for Handling of Remains – Crime Watch Daily – YouTube

~ 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

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~ FBI found ‘bucket of heads, arms and legs,’ bodies sewn together at body donation facility, agent sa – YouTube

~ 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

~ Horror Research; Biological Centre In U.S. Sued For Mishandling Bodies Donated To Science – 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 makes disturbing discovery after donating his mom’s body to Biological Resource Center – YouTube

~ 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

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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

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Videos

~ Josh Braswell Commercial – Alabama Organ Center

~ Whistleblower uncovers mortuary kickback scheme – YouTube

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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

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Videos

~ A look at the business of selling human remains – YouTube

~ Body Parts Found – 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

~ FBI investigation – 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

~ Organ trafficking – 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

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Mainstream News

• ~ A Body Broker Took Bodies Donated To Science, Dismembered Them, And Sold The Body Parts Illegally – Ranker
• ~ Accused cadaver dealer locked up for contacting wife – Detroit Free Press
• ~ Bloody Business by Michigan Crime Stories – Sound Cloud – AUDIO
• ~ Bodies Were ‘Frozen Together in Flesh-on-Flesh Chunks’: FBI – Newser
• ~ Body broker victim never expected father’s head to end up in FBI freezer – mlive.com.url
• ~ Body broker who peddled diseased human parts gets jail – New York Post
• ~ Body broker’s attorneys want ‘sickening’ photos withheld from trial – mlive.com
• ~ Body broker’s Illinois victim never expected father’s head to end up in FBI freezer – Herald & Review
• ~ Body broker who sold diseased remains is convicted of fraud – Reuters

• 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.

• ~ Body parts dealer: Fake terrorism fighters fooled me into confession – Detroit Free Press
• ~ Businessman who made millions selling cadavers gets 9 years in prison after they were found to be infected with HIV and Hepatitis – Meaww
• ~ Cadaver dealer gets 9 years for selling diseased body parts – FOX 2 Detroit
• ~ Cadaver dealer loses appeal after getting prison for selling diseased body parts – FOX 2 Detroit
• ~ Cadaver dealer released on bond in body-parts case – USA Today
• ~ Cadaver dealer ‘stored heads in mouthwash, washed human remains down the drain and rented body parts to medical researchers without telling donors’ families what he did with remains’ – Daily Mail Online
• ~ Cadaver Dealer’s Wife Pleads Guilty, Assists Prosecutors – Grosse Pointe, MI Patch
• ~ Cadaver dealer’s wife pleads guilty in body parts case – Detroit Free Press
• ~ Cadaver dealer’s wife pleads guilty in body parts case – USA Today
• ~ Cadaver Dealer’s Wife Pleads Guilty in Dead-Body Scheme, Assists Prosecutors – Chicago, IL Patch
• ~ Cooler Of Male Genitalia Among Phoenix Body-Part Broker Horrors. When the FBI raided Biological Resource Center, they found a bucket of arms, legs and heads; a penis-filled cooler; and other horrors – Phoenix, AZ Patch
• ~ Couple Arrested After Diseased Body Parts Rented Out for Medical Training- Feds – NBC Chicago
• ~ Couple is charged with selling infected body parts – The Boston Globe
• ~ Detroit-area couple in body parts business accused of fraud – Breitbart.url
• ~ Detroit body broker guilty of fraud, transport of diseased body parts – mlive.com
• ~ Detroit couple accused of hacking donated corpses with chainsaw, selling diseased body parts to unwitting medical students – New York Daily News
• ~ Detroit Man Who Sold Diseased Body Parts Gets Nine Years in Prison – Gizmodo
• ~ DMC received hepatitis-infected remains from Detroit body broker’s supplier, FBI says – mlive.com
• ~ Exclusive: Federal agents found fetuses in body broker’s warehouse (Warning- Graphic images) – Reuters
• ~ FBI agent describes grisly warehouse in start of body broker’s trial – Reuters
• ~ FBI indicts couple in body-parts investigation – Chronicle Media
• ~ FBI Reportedly Investigating Stolen Body Parts Trade In Detroit – HuffPost
• ~ Federal Agents Discover Whole Fetuses in ‘Body Broker’s’ Warehouse – Breitbart
• ~ Feds- Cadaver dealer rented out infected legs, heads, necks – Detroit Free Press
• ~ Feds- Grosse Pointe businessman made $13M selling body parts – Detroit Free Press
• ~ Feds- Grosse Pointe cadaver dealer tied to 18 more human heads – Detroit Free Press
• ~ Fetuses Discovered In Warehouse Of Body Part Dealer Accused Of Fraud: Report – International Business Times
• ~ Foetuses seized as part of FBI body parts investigation – US News – Sky News
• ~ Freezer full of body parts awaits day in court – Detroit Free Press
• ~ Grisly Details Allowed in Black Market Body Parts Trial in Detroit – Detroit, MI Patch
• ~ Grosse Pointe Park Couple Indicted In Body Parts Dealing Scheme – CBS Detroit
• ~ Grosse Pointe Park Man Convicted In Body Parts Dealing Scheme – CBS Detroit
• ~ Grosse Pointe woman takes plea in body parts case – The Detroit News
• ~ Grosse Pointers charged in infectious body parts scheme – The Detroit News
• ~ Human Fetuses and Rotting Heads Found in Warehouse Used for Legal Sale of Human Body Parts – Newsweek
• ~ In a warehouse of horrors, body broker allegedly stacked human heads – Reuters Investigates
• ~ Indictment – US V Arthur Rathburn and Elizabeth Rathburn
• ~ Inside the world of body brokers and organ donation – mlive.com
• ~ Intact aborted babies found in federal raid of body parts dealer’s warehouse – News – LifeSite
• ~ Jury Convicts Michigan Man Who Had Body Parts Business – Newsmax.com
• ~ Jury in Detroit-area body parts case selected, trial could last 2 weeks – WXYZ 7 Detroit
• ~ Kankakee woman to body parts broker- ‘burn in hell’ – Local News – daily-journal.com
• ~ Little shop of horrors- MI couple arrested for black market cadaver business — RT USA News
• ~ Little shop of horrors- Michigan couple arrested for black market body-selling ring – Sott.net
• ~ Man accused of selling body parts sent to Milan, Mich. prison – The Detroit News
• ~ Man facing federal charges in body broker case – WXYZ 7
• ~ Man had human body parts in paint cans, beer coolers and plastic containers- FBI agent – Fox News
• ~ Man who peddled diseased body parts gets 9 years – Chicago Tribune.url
• ~ Man Who Sent HIV-Infected Body Parts Convicted Of Fraud. Arthur Rathburn shipped human heads and torsos for medical training, but hid that the body parts were from people with infectious diseases – Detroit, MI Patch
• ~ Man who sold diseased body parts ‘deserves to fry’ says victim – FOX 2 Detroit
• ~ Michigan abortionist Arthur Rathburn’s trial is the next horror story for the baby killing industry, fetal tissue market – The Global Dispatch
• ~ Michigan cadaver dealer indicted over body parts – USA Today
• ~ Michigan couple allegedly rented out diseased body parts from cadavers – The Toronto Star
• ~ Michigan diseased body parts dealer to be sentenced today – wzzm13.com
• ~ Michigan man, Arthur Rathburn, convicted for fraud scheme involving distributing infectious disease laden body parts – Outbreak News Today
• ~ Michigan man gets prison in diseased body parts probe – AP
• ~ Michigan man jailed for selling body parts infected with HIV, hepatitis – Fox News
• ~ More details emerge in case of ‘body broker’ who rented severed heads – mlive.com.url
• ~ National black market body parts ring exposed in Michigan – Rolling Out
• ~ Pointes man faces scrutiny in alleged body parts sales – The Detroit News
• ~ Preserved fetuses found in body broker’s warehouse – New York Post
• ~ Revealed: Federal agents found four preserved fetuses in their second trimester during Detroit raid of body broker’s warehouse – Daily Mail Online
• ~ Seller of tainted body parts sentenced to 9 years – The Detroit News
• ~ Suspect in body parts sales sent to Detroit halfway house – Detroit Free Press
• ~ US Charges Michigan Couple for ‘Renting’ Out Human Body Parts – Sputnik International.url
• ~ U.S. v. Rathburn et al: Court Docket #16-CR-20043 – US DOJ
• ~ The horrifying case of the husband-and-wife cadaver dealers – Washington Post
• ~ Two Individuals Indicted in Fraud Scheme Involving Distribution of Infectious Human Remains – USAO-EDMI – Department of Justice

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~ 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

~ “She was sold, embalmed and shipped out-‘ Funeral home accused of doubling as body parts broker – YouTube

~ 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

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Mainstream News

• ~ A Colorado funeral home doubles as a broker of body parts — and both businesses are being investigated – The Denver Post
• ~ A Colorado funeral home owner also sold human body parts. A new bill would make that illegal – The Denver Post
• ~ Already under investigation for her body-parts business, a Montrose woman has her state insurance license revoked – The Colorado Sun
• ~ Amid FBI investigation, state closes case on Montrose funeral home – The Daily Sentinel
• ~ Attorney: Body-Parts-for-Sale Case Worse Than One Settled for $58M – Westword
• ~ Attorney- Multi-million dollar judgment against Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors reflects ‘magnitude of desecration’ – Montrose Press
• ~ Bobby Espinoza Fears Body Broker Who Sold His Dad’s Head Can Abuse Others – Westword
• ~ Body Broker Lawsuit: Woman’s Head Went to One Place, Pelvis to Another – Westword
• ~ Body of complaints piled up- State knew of funeral home concerns long before FBI raid – The Daily Sentinel
• ~ Body ‘trafficking,’ racketeering alleged in Sunset Mesa suit – Montrose Press
• ~ Colorado funeral home operators charged with selling bodies – ABC News
• ~ Colorado funeral home operators indicted for illegally selling body parts – Reuters
• ~ Colorado funeral home operators indicted in alleged body-part selling scheme – ABC 7 Denver
• ~ Colorado Funeral Home Owners Charged With Brokering Body Parts – Courthouse News Service
• ~ Colorado law firm helps win $58 million for victims of body broker business – KKCO 11
• ~ Colorado morticians charged with selling body parts – New York Daily News
• ~ Colorado shuts down funeral home operated by body parts broker – Reuters
• ~ Colorado Shuts Down Funeral Home Operated By Body Parts Broker – NDTV
• ~ Company seeks dismissal from funeral home suit – Montrose Press
• ~ Confessions of a Body Broker – Westword
• ~ Coroner, buyers should have known Colorado funeral home wrongly sold body parts, lawsuit claims – The Denver Post
• ~ Coroner’s attorneys say complaint misdirected – Montrose Press
• ~ Court grants another default entry against Sunset Mesa Funeral Foundation, in body-handling suit – Montrose Press
• ~ Court grants motion for entry of default in mortuary suit – Montrose Press
• ~ Court says coroner has immunity in body-sale lawsuit against funeral home – Montrose Press
• ~ Cremains tests raise questions, ‘deception’ – The Daily Sentinel
• ~ Cremation society added to Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors lawsuit – Montrose Press
• ~ Death certificate discovery- Local funeral homes may have used Sunset Mesa – KJCT 8
• ~ Default hearing held in Sunset Mesa mortuary suit – Montrose Press
• ~ Default judgment entered against Sunset Mesa – Montrose Press
• ~ Exclusive: FBI raids Colorado body broker following Reuters report – Reuters
• ~ FBI confirms ghastly details of investigation into Montrose funeral home and body parts broker – The Denver Post
• ~ FBI probe funeral home with links to body parts business – Newsday – BBC
• ~ FBI probe into Colorado funeral home that doubled as body broker firm, report says – Fox News
• ~ FBI raids Montrose funeral business – The Daily Sentinel
• ~ FBI scrutinizes Colorado funeral home with side business — selling body parts – stltoday.com
• ~ FBI scrutinizes funeral home that also makes money selling body parts – Reuters Investigates
• ~ FBI searches Montrose funeral home and human body parts business – The Denver Post
• ~ ‘Find me, Mom. Find me’- Testimony taken for pain and suffering claims in Sunset Mesa body sales suit – Montrose Press
• ~ For Montrose Families At The Center Of The Funeral Home Scandal, Feelings Of Betrayal And Guilt Linger – Colorado Public Radio
• ~ Former Owners Of Sunset Mesa Funeral Home Arrested – Colorado Public Radio
• ~ Funeral home mom, daughter accused of secretly selling body parts – New York Post
• ~ Funeral home owner, mother, indicted – Montrose Press
• ~ Funeral home owners arrested for harvesting, selling bodies – The Durango Herald
• ~ Former Montrose funeral home director accused of selling body parts loses state insurance license – The Denver Post
• ~ Former Owners Of Sunset Mesa Funeral Home Arrested – Colorado Public Radio
• ~ Funeral home runs a side business selling human body parts – and made so much money selling dead people’s gold teeth that the owner’s mother took the whole family to Disneyland – Daily Mail Online
• ~ Funeral Home Services Suspended After FBI Raid – CBS Denver
• ~ Get ’Em Bodied: FBI Investigates Colorado Funeral Home That Sells Human Body Parts – The Root
• ~ Human Body Parts Price List and Other Reasons for New Colorado Law – Westworld
• ~ “It wasn’t his ashes”: Suspiciouns about Colorado funeral home’s body parts business grew amid lax regulations – The Denver Post
• ~ Judge hits Sunset Mesa Funeral Foundation with $468K civil judgment over ‘repugnant conduct’ related to handling of man’s cremation  – Montrose Press
• ~ Judge shoots down latest bid to stay funeral home suits – Montrose Press
• ~ Lawsuits Filed Against Closed Colorado Funeral Home – CBS Denver
• ~ “Life where there was death”: New business hopes to transform Colorado funderal home that allegedly sold body parts against families’ wishes – The Denver Post
• ~ Megan Hess Finally Indicted for Allegedly Selling Corpses’ Body Parts – Westword
• ~ Mom and daughter BUSTED selling body parts! – Crime Online
• ~ Mom, daughter sold body parts from funeral home without families’ consent, CO cops say – The Sacramento Bee
• ~ Montrose funeral home owner who allegedly sold hundreds of bodies without families’ consent is federally indicted – The Colorado Sun
• ~ Montrose Funeral Home Operators Arrested For Illegally Selling Body Parts – CBS Denver
• ~ More questions raised by testing of Montrose funeral home remains – The Denver Post
• ~ Mortuary: Body-handling suit ‘baseless’ – Montrose Press
• ~ Mother-Daughter Team Caught Illegally Selling Hundreds Of Bodies Out Of The Family Funeral Home – All Thats Interesting
• ~ Mother and daughter who ran Colorado funeral home accused of illegally selling body parts – NBC News
• ~ ‘None of this happened the way you think it did’. For years, the clients of a Colorado funeral home kept their loved ones’ cremated remains. Then the FBI called. – The Colorado Independent
• ~ NOT AT REST: The cremated remains of 170 people sit in a Montrose funeral home basement. Now the new occupant is trying to do right by them – The Daily Sentinel
• ~ Owners of Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors indicted for illegally selling human body parts – The Denver Post
• ~ Plaintiffs fire back at Nielson dismissal motion – Montrose Press
• ~ Second suit filed against Montrose mortuary, ex-owner – The Daily Sentinel
• ~ Seeking Victim Information in Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors Investigation — FBI
• ~ Selling body parts- The secret black market industry in Colorado – ABC 7 Denver
• ~ Selling body parts- The secret black market industry in Colorado – KMTV 3 Omaha
• ~ ‘She was sold, embalmed and shipped out-‘ Funeral home accused of doubling as body parts broker – ABC 7 Debver
• ~ SPECIAL REPORT-FBI scrutinizes funeral home with side business: selling body parts – Reuters
• ~ STONE COLD ‘CROOKS’: Funeral directors ‘gave families CEMENT instead of remains’ – The Sun
• ~ Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors – The Denver Post
• ~ Sunset Mesa Funeral Home operators arrested for illegal body part scheme – KJCT 8 ABC
• ~ Sunset Mesa Funeral Home Operators Arrested For Illegal Body Part Scheme – USAO-CO – Department of Justice
• ~ Sunset Mesa Funeral Home Plea Deal – KJCT 8
• ~ Sunset Mesa Funeral Home Plea Deal – NBC 11 KKCO
• ~ Sunset Mesa Funeral Home victims honored at cemetery – NBC 11 KKCO
• ~ Sunset Mesa mortuary case defendants found liable for millions in damages – Montrose Press
• ~ Sunset Mesa survivors gather to commemorate the dead allegedly mishandled by funeral home – Montrose Press
• ~ Sunset Mesa (U.S. v. Megan Hess and Shirley Koch) – US DOJ
• ~ Ten Horror Stories About Loved Ones’ Bodies Allegedly Chopped Up and Sold – Westword
• ~ Third lawsuit filed against Colorado funeral home accused of selling loved ones’ body parts without permission – The Denver Post
• ~ “This really has shattered me”: Betrayal, anger, grief haunt victims of Colorado funeral home that sold loved ones’ body parts without permission – The Denver Post
• ~ Trial date set in Sunset Mesa Funeral Home fraud case – Montrose Press
• ~ Trial for Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors’ alleged body scheme pushed to August – Montrose Press
• ~ ‘UNTHINKABLE ACTS’ – Hess, Koch indicted in body brokering case – Montrose Press
• ~ Victims In Funeral Home Body Brokering Tell Disturbing, Emotional Stories – CBS Denver
• ~ Victims of Sunset Mesa Funeral Home incident react to operators’ arrests – NBC 11 KKCO
• ~ Woman’s lawsuit accuses funeral home of illegally harvesting mother’s body parts – The Durango Herald

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Videos

~ Cadaver dealers’ case still on hold over prison time, human remains stay on ice for 268 families – YouTube

~ Chicago father, son accused of selling body parts on black market – YouTube

~ Donald Greene, Charged With Black Market Body Part Brokering, Still Licensed Funeral Director In Ill – 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

~ Father Duped In Alleged Black Market Body Part Brokering Scheme Wants Daughter’s Body Back – YouTube

~ 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

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Mainstream News

• ~ Affidavit details why FBI raided Rosemont body donation firm – Daily Herald
• ~ Attorney- Rosemont body donation company cooperating with FBI – Daily Herald
• ~ ‘Body brokers’ charged with selling diseased human remains – New York Daily News.url
• ~ Donald Greene, Charged In Alleged Black Market Body Part Brokering Scheme, Still Licensed Funeral Director In Illinois – CBS 2 Chicago
• ~ Father And Son Charged With Selling Diseased Body Parts In Alleged Brokering Scheme – CBS Chicago
• ~ Father and son from Rosemont accused of selling diseased body parts on black market – WGN-TV
• ~ Father and son in Illinois sold diseased human remains for profit, federal charges say – USA Today
• ~ Father Duped In Alleged Black Market Body Part Brokering Scheme Wants Daughter’s Body Back – CBS Chicago
• ~ Father, son accused of selling body parts on black market – New York Post
• ~ Father, Son Accused Of Selling Body Parts Infected With HIV, Hepatitis – HuffPost
• ~ Father, son accused of supplying black market with diseased body parts – AJC
• ~ Father, son accused of supplying black market with diseased body parts – Boston 25 News
• ~ Father, son charged for allegedly selling diseased body parts – 6abc Philadelphia
• ~ Father, son charged with selling infected body parts on black market – Fox News
• ~ Father wants daughter’s body back after giving her remains to alleged black market dealers- report – Fox News
• ~ FBI Raids Crematorium, Body Donation Center In Illinois; Is Investigation Connected To Michigan- – CBS Detroit
• ~ Feds raid Schiller Park crematorium, Rosemont medical research office – ABC7 Chicago
• ~ Feds target possibly contaminated cadavers sold for research – Chicago Tribune
• ~ Hundreds of body parts found in raid on Chicago’s Schiller Park crematorium – Daily Mail Online
• ~ Illinois dad and son charged in Michigan body parts probe – AP
• ~ Illinois father and son are charged for selling donated human body parts ‘knowing they had tested positive for infectious diseases including HIV, sepsis and hepatitis’ – Daily Mail Online
• ~ Mom who donated son’s body to science alleges remains were illegally trafficked – Chicago Tribune
• ~ New documents reveal chilling details of alleged ‘body broker’ ring – ABC7 Chicago
• ~ Poor, Black and dead in Chicago meant big cash for body brokers – Rolling Out
• ~ Secretary Of State Jesse White Says Legislation To Be Introduced Would Prevent Future Sale Of Body Parts – CBS Chicago
• ~ What Happens When Bodies Are Donated to Science? – Al Jazeera America
• ~ Woman Wants Legislation After Her Father’s Body Parts Were Sold In An Alleged Black Market Body Part Brokering Scheme – CBS 2 Chicago

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Mainstream News

• ~ 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- Inside America’s Underground Trade in Human Remains- Cheney, Annie- 9780767917346- Amazon.com- Books
• ~ 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 – US crime – 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
• ~ 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
• ~ Special Report U.S. body brokers supply world with torsos, limbs and heads – Reuters

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