The Mail: I was given a young man's heart - and started craving beer and Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Yesterday, the Mail told the extraordinary story of how a heart transplant recipient in America committed suicide - just like the man whose heart he had received 12 years previously. In another extraordinary twist, it emerged that the recipient had also married the donor's former wife.

So can elements of a person's character - or even their soul - be transplanted along with a heart?

One woman who believes this to be the case is CLAIRE SYLVIA, a divorced mother of one.

She was 47 and dying from a disease called primary pulmonary hypertension when, in 1988, she had a pioneering heartlung transplant in America.

She was given the organs of an 18-year-old boy who had been killed in a motorcycle accident near his home in Maine.

Claire, a former professional dancer, then made an astonishing discovery: she seemed to be acquiring the characteristics, and cravings, of the donor.

Here, in an extract from her book A Change Of Heart, Claire tells her remarkable story...

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=558256&in_page_id=1774

A wealthy couple has been missing from Hilton Head Island for about a month. The last time they were seen they were with this guy discussing some kind of business. Police had zeroed in on him when he committed suicide. So, they are pretty sure the couple is dead. It was the suicide/probable murderer who had received a heart from someone who committed suicide.