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Harvard Morgue Body Part Buyers Tied to Facebook Oddities Group
- US alleges conspiracy to buy and sell stolen brains and hearts
- ‘If you’re posting a wet specimen, use the word moist or damp’
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Members of an alleged conspiracy involving human body parts stolen from Harvard Medical School’s morgue and an Arkansas crematorium connected through a private Facebook group for buying and selling “oddities,” according to court filings.
“Just out of curiosity, would you know anyone in the market for a fully in tact embalmed brain?” a Little Rock, Arkansas, funeral home contractor named Candace Chapman Scott asked in an October 2021 Facebook Messenger note to accused dealer Jeremy Pauley in Pennsylvania, federal prosecutors say.