Hearts, brains and bones: Stolen body parts scandal stretches from Harvard to Kentucky

2025-04-20 01:45:24 source: category:Scams

This story contains graphic material that may be disturbing for some readers. 

They bought and sold human hearts and lungs and livers and brains — not to mention skulls, spines, skin and fetuses. It was ghoulish and macabre. 

But it also was profoundly sad for victims like a woman in Little Rock, Arkansas, identified in court papers only as D.S. 

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