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Michigan cadaver dealer indicted over body parts
http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/01/29/mich-cadaver-dealer-indicted-body-parts/79545226/
DETROIT It was 2006 when Arthur Rathburn's name and morbid profession first surfaced in a book called Body Brokers, which delved into the underground world of cadaver dealers and labeled him a shady mortician who sold and rented heads, necks and legs for a handsome profit.
On Friday, after years of being watched by the FBI, Rathburn of Grosse Pointe Park was indicted on numerous charges in U.S. District Court in Detroit, accused of running a nationwide scheme that involved cutting up bodies without consent and renting heads, arms and legs riddled with disease to unsuspecting medical researchers.
A dazed and homeless Rathburn sat in court on Friday, reading the 19-page indictment that accused him of heinous acts, like cutting up bodies with chainsaws, shipping blood-filled coolers of fresh heads on commercial airliners falsely claiming the blood was Listerine and storing more than 1,000 body parts on ice at his rundown warehouse in Detroit.
Rathburn, who has been living out of his van and his warehouse pending a divorce, was ordered jailed over the weekend, though he could be released on bond next week and placed in a halfway house. His estranged wife, Elizabeth Rathburn, also was charged in the indictment and appeared in court with her sister. She was released on bond and said nothing as she left the federal courthouse, hiding her face behind a stack of white papers.
http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/01/29/mich-cadaver-dealer-indicted-body-parts/79545226/
DETROIT It was 2006 when Arthur Rathburn's name and morbid profession first surfaced in a book called Body Brokers, which delved into the underground world of cadaver dealers and labeled him a shady mortician who sold and rented heads, necks and legs for a handsome profit.
On Friday, after years of being watched by the FBI, Rathburn of Grosse Pointe Park was indicted on numerous charges in U.S. District Court in Detroit, accused of running a nationwide scheme that involved cutting up bodies without consent and renting heads, arms and legs riddled with disease to unsuspecting medical researchers.
A dazed and homeless Rathburn sat in court on Friday, reading the 19-page indictment that accused him of heinous acts, like cutting up bodies with chainsaws, shipping blood-filled coolers of fresh heads on commercial airliners falsely claiming the blood was Listerine and storing more than 1,000 body parts on ice at his rundown warehouse in Detroit.
Rathburn, who has been living out of his van and his warehouse pending a divorce, was ordered jailed over the weekend, though he could be released on bond next week and placed in a halfway house. His estranged wife, Elizabeth Rathburn, also was charged in the indictment and appeared in court with her sister. She was released on bond and said nothing as she left the federal courthouse, hiding her face behind a stack of white papers.
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Michigan cadaver dealer indicted over body parts (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jan 2016
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underpants
(182,878 posts)1. Damn, there goes our plans for our center pieces
I guess we'll have to go with flowers.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)2. Who rents a head?
I guess it must cost an arm and a leg to buy one.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)3. I have to say, it never occurred to me that one could rent a head.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)4. Perfect case to apply eye for an eye punishment.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)5. He was a leg up on the competition.
But he was always willing to lend a hand.