The Weisberg Incident – 16,433 bodies in Woodland Hills

The Weisberg Incident – 16,433 bodies in Woodland Hills The Abortion Holocaust, part 1

In 1980 Malvin Weisberg, who lived in an upscale neighborhood in Woodland Hills, on the western side of L.A.’s San Fernando Valley, began making payments on a large (20’x8’x8’) land/sea storage container from the Martin Container company in Wilmington. Weisberg supposedly needed the steel box to store tennis court lights.

Weisberg defaulted on his payments for the container until finally the Martin company came on February 3, 1982 to repossess the large box.

On February 4, when workers opened the doors to the steel box, now parked in the container yard in Wilmington, they were overwhelmed with the stench of decaying human flesh. When they looked inside, they saw bodies strewn among open boxes and plastic buckets. One worker described the scene as a “war zone” and reported watching a headless body tumble forward.

Martin Container employees called the Los Angeles County health department, which began transferring bodies to the county coroner’s office. At the coroner’s office, just west of the L.A. County/USC Medical Center, Dr. Eva Hauser, assisted by Dr. Joseph Wood, weighed, measured and performed autopsies on at least 43 of the larger infant bodies. Some had been dead for more than two years. Some were at least 30 weeks old. All were severely mutilated through salt poisoning or dismemberment with surgical knives. The smell, the buzz of flies, and the sight of mangled infant bodies made the autopsy procedure difficult for the doctors. Many of the bodies still had labels that identified the abortionists.

Since Los Angeles County now had possession of the bodies, the county had to decide how to dispose of them. The Feminist Women’s Health Center, an abortion business, and the ACLU filed suit to have the babies’ bodies incinerated, rather than buried.

The Los Angeles County board of supervisors, led by supervisor Michael Antonovich, requested burial. President Ronald Reagan sent a letter to decry the killing of these children and to encourage a memorial service. On May 30 state senators David Roberti and Alex Garcia, county supervisors Antonovich and Deane Dana, Dr. Gerald Navarre, and Martin Container employee Hank Stolk held a press conference to urge Los Angeles district attorney John Van de Kamp to release the bodies for burial.

During the news conference photos of many of the aborted babies were shown to the media. Several reporters became hostile and alleged that the photos were illegal. Incensed by the reporter’s lack of compassion, Roberti shouted, “They took pictures at Auschwitz” and then accused reporters of “convoluted morality.”

After a lengthy court battle between Los Angeles County and the abortion industry, the 16,433 bodies were crammed into several large pine boxes and buried at Odd Fellows Cemetery in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles on October 6, 1985.

President Reagan provided a written eulogy for the burial, but he had already written poignantly in 1982, “The terrible irony about this sudden discovery is not that so many human lives were legally aborted, but that they are only a tiny proportion of the 1.5 million unborn children quietly destroyed in our nation this year. This is the truth many would rather not face.”

Malvin Roy Weisberg operated Medical Analytic Laboratories in Santa Monica from 1976 until March 1981. A significant part of the business of these laboratories was to conduct pathology exams on the bodies of unborn babies from clinics in Los Angeles and surrounding areas.

A May 1983 Associated Press story pointed out that Weisberg’s laboratories at one point received nearly $175,000 in Medi-Cal payments, with $88,000 coming from pathology tests on aborted fetuses. Of this, half of it ($44,000) was paid federally through the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). By the Hyde Amendment, this money was ineligible for testing on pre-abortion or post-abortion tissue, which meant the state of California would need to pay back federal funds claimed by Weisberg and by any other laboratories.

Weisberg was not a medical doctor; to do the exams he hired Milo Allado, a pathologist from the Philippines who had been a physician for the U.S. military. Allado’s name was on the paperwork found in Weisberg’s sea/land container that held the 16,433 unborn baby bodies discovered accidentally in February of 1982.

This accidental discovery occurred because Weisberg (33 years old at the time) had neglected to make timely payments on the container he was purchasing from the Martin Container company in Wilmington. Weisberg had been keeping the aborted baby bodies at his Santa Monica office, but in 1980 there were complaints about the sight and smell of so many bodies, and Weisberg ordered the container to be delivered to his Woodland Hills home. (The first check for $1700 bounced.)

Weisberg’s home on Califa Street in the Woodland Hills Country Club sat next to a flag lot, a piece of property with a long driveway that led to larger lot off the street. In back of Weisberg’s house there were tennis courts. Next to the tennis courts, on the vacant flag lot sat the large (20’x8’x8’) steel container before it was re-possessed.

After a short item appeared in the LA Times about the discovery of the bodies, two pro-lifers visited the Weisberg home in February 1982. Mrs. Weisberg appeared at the front gate in tennis clothes, accompanied by another female. Mrs. Weisberg seemed to acknowledge the existence of the bodies, but at that point her female companion encouraged her to return to the house. The only other testimony to the grisly incident was a neighbor boy, who told the visitors that his parents would not let his sister play with the Weisberg children at their house, because there were “babies’ bodies” stored in a garage there.

To cut back on smog, the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control District had strict rules by the late 1970s limiting on-site incineration in the L.A. Basin. So disposing of human bodies was going to mean burying in the L.A. area or shipping somewhere out of the area – costs Weisberg was apparently not willing to bear.

And there was little chance to make money from the sale of the bodies. Since the bodies were kept in formaldehyde, they could not be used for research or for other uses.

All that is known for certain is that the bodies accumulated on the Woodland Hills property.

Health and Human Services inspector Richard Kusserow stated “prior to its closing in April 1981, [Medical Analytical Laboratories] had routinely submitted questionable billings under the Medi-Cal program, using an erroneous billing code…. the case lacked criminal prosecutive merit due to a lack of proof that the false billings were intentional. Because the laboratory was out of business, and its owner had declared bankruptcy, there were no assets against which to proceed for civil recovery.”

Martin Container employees in Wilmington find unborn baby parts The Abortion Holocaust, part 3

The technology of containerized shipping — where steel boxes of a standard size and shape could be loaded from ship to truck or railroad car — took hold during the Vietnam War era. These containers became the norm for moving goods throughout the world. They helped drive the expansion of cheap consumer goods brought to the United States from Asia.

The sea/land containers, made with 14-gauge steel (1/10 inch), were also called intermodal or ConEx boxes.

Martin Container company, the oldest and largest such company on the West Coast, was located near the Long Beach and Los Angeles harbors. In the mid 1970s, Nick Martin, the company owner, began to expand beyond the use for shipping and decided to market the sturdy boxes as storage units.

In 1980 Malvin Weisberg needed to store the growing number of aborted baby bodies accumulating at his laboratory in Santa Monica. The number of bodies would eventually total over 16,000. Weisberg ordered a standard Martin container (20’x8’x8’) to be delivered to his Woodland Hills home. The container was kept in back of Weisberg’s house, next to his tennis courts.

Weisberg’s first check in 1980 to Martin for $1700 bounced, and he missed subsequent payments. Finally on February 4, 1982 Martin sent a truck and driver to Woodland Hills to repossess the container. The truck included a rig to slide the box up on rails with a winch. However the container packed nearly full with bodies broke the winch.

To make things worse, the driver was attacked by a dog, was bitten, and had to call animal control.

Reached by the driver, Martin told him to wait and called a company with a large crane to go back up the narrow driveway.

The second truck with the crane lifted the container up, deposited it on the original Martin truck, and the container was brought back from Woodland Hills to the Martin yard in Wilmington.

A day or two later, Martin employees Hank Stolk and Ron Gillette went to empty out the steel box.

Stolk said he thought it was like a war zone; formaldehyde and bodies spilled out of plastic buckets.

Gillette, according to a later Cal Thomas story, spoke of seeing “hands torn right off” and of “grown men weeping and vomiting.” Later, when reporters arrived, Gillette said, “You stand there and stare at a ripped-apart baby for 15 minutes like I did. You stand there and count the fingers and look at legs with little kneecaps that have been tore off the body. You stand there and try to find the head, only to realize there ain’t no head. You do that just like I did. And then you tell me how you feel.”

The Martin container staff called police and then the health department. The medical-legal section of the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office got the container with the contents transferred to a lot next to an LA county building. The paperwork from the container went to a portable office structure on the lot to be analyzed. The bodies were moved to a semi trailer.

After the contents had been transferred to the county, the Martin Container company tried to give the container to a Little League in the Los Angeles area. The Little Leaguers rejected it because it “smelled bad.”

L.A. County Coroner autopsies some of the 16,433 babies found The Abortion Holocaust, part 4

In early February, 1982, after workers at the Martin Container company discovered more than 16,000 unborn baby bodies in a shipping container at their yard in Wilmington, company staff called the police and then the health department.

Los Angeles County took possession of the bodies. Disposal of bodies was considered first a health problem, though there were questions of legality because some of the babies were late-term.

The L.A. County board of supervisors passed a resolution asking that autopsies be performed on the babies’ bodies to see if any laws had been violated. For example, were any babies plunged into formaldehyde alive? To answer such a question, a pathologist needed to perform autopsies to examine the lungs for oxygen residue.

(Behind the scenes feminists, including attorneys Carol Downer and Gloria Allred, were trying to have the babies classified as medical waste and incinerated.)

At least 43 of the bodies were considered late-term and were sent to the county coroner’s office for further examination. Some bodies came from the container, and after the discovery in this container, some came from Malvin Weisberg’s Woodland Hills garage, near where the sea-land container with the bodies had been for at least two years.

Thomas Noguchi was born and studied medicine in Japan. In 1952 he came to the United States to complete a residency in pathology at Orange County General Hospital and joined the L.A. County Coroner’s Office in 1960. He was appointed chief medical examiner in 1967.

Noguchi had a taste for publicity; he held news conferences and claimed to be a pioneer in solving crimes. He performed or supervised autopsies on Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin, Robert Kennedy, and in 1981 was involved in the investigations of the deaths of William Holden – found in a hotel with a head wound – and Natalie Wood – who drowned in a Catalina yachting accident.

Noguchi was forced to step down from his office in 1982, and in 1983 he published a best-selling memoir, Coroner.

Confronted with the bodies from the Weisberg case in early 1982, he was not happy with the board of supervisors resolution but reluctantly complied, according to a witness at the time. According to the witness, the medical section of the coroner’s office was chaotic. “There were bodies, flies everywhere, in contrast to Noguchi’s own lavishly furnished office which had a huge desk, a couch, a console, and chairs.”

The autopsies of the 43 babies in the coroner’s office took place on one day. Dr. Joseph Wood, a pathologist from San Diego, was recruited. Dr. Eva Hauser, a deputy medical examiner, and some technicians assisted Dr. Wood. Two photographers took pictures for Dr. Wood, and a coroner’s photographer took pictures for the coroner’s office

Dr. Wood arrived at 9 a.m., conferred with Dr. Noguchi, Dr. Eva Hauser, Dr. Ronald Kornblum (who eventually succeeded Dr. Noguchi as chief medical examiner), and other staff, and started the 43 autopsies around 10 a.m. Buckets containing the bodies of the late-term babies were loaded on trolleys, I.D. number boards put next to bodies, and the babies weighed and measured. Dr. Wood was taking out samples of lungs and putting them into specimen bottles.

Dr. Wood decided to have lunch before returning to finish the autopsies around 3 or 4 p.m. He went through all 43 buckets, even ones where the bodies were in pieces.

Dr. Noguchi, Dr. Hauser, and other coroner’s staff were opposed to the autopsies by Dr. Wood and his assistants (which included taking pictures) and called the district attorney’s office. The DA declined to interfere.

The conclusion of the investigation was ambiguous with respect to the abortions committed after 20 weeks and the failure to file reports; the district attorney decided he would not file charges.

Within a year federal authorities went through all the paperwork and the containers.

They were auditing to see where the money went. It was deputy district attorney Nikola Mikulicich and the federal officials who did an exact count and came up with the number of 16,433 babies’ bodies.

The feds were looking at containers to determine who the doctor was and whether there was a Medi-Cal payment. Since the Hyde Amendment had been signed into law in the late 1970s, there was not supposed to be any federal money spent on abortion.

In the end, the bodies were dumped out of their individual identifying containers and turned over to the Gutierrez mortuary for mass burial.

In 1982, when 16,433 bodies of unborn babies were found in a huge shipping container, forty-three of the largest bodies were sent to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office for autopsy . Labels on the containers stated that these larger baby bodies all came from Inglewood Women’s Hospital. This hospital was owned by Morton Barke, M.D.

In the early 1970s Barke owned West Coast Medical Group, an abortion business in Woodland Hills in the eastern San Fernando Valley. This is where he might have met Malvin Weisberg, who lived in Woodland Hills but operated a pathology lab in Santa Monica that provided baby-body disposal for the abortion industry.

Barke bought a clinic in 1970 that had served as an industrial medical clinic in Inglewood, a predominantly African-American community. Real estate was cheaper in Inglewood. Barke renamed the place Inglewood Women’s Hospital; it had two surgical suites, a waiting room, and a recovery room. It was near LAX, had a large parking lot, and Barke could draw from the local African-American population.

At peak operation in the late 1980s, Barke’s Inglewood Women’s Hospital was doing more than 74 abortions per day. On such a day (in late January, 1987) Belinda Byrd, a young African-American woman, bled to death after being left on an unattended gurney. A lawsuit was filed and in 1990, Inglewood Women’s Hospital (Barke) had to pay $425,000 to Byrd’s children.

Belinda’s mother thought that the death of her daughter was criminal and she wrote to the Los Angeles District Attorney:

“I am the mother of Belinda Byrd, victim of abortionists at [Inglewood]. I am also the grandmother of her three young children who are left behind and motherless. I cry every day when I think how horrible her death was. She was slashed by them and then she bled to death … and nobody cares. I know that other young black women are now dead after abortion at that address….

“Where is [the abortionist] now? Has he been stopped? Has anything happened to him because of what he did to my Belinda? Has he served jail time for any of these cruel deaths? People tell me nothing has happened, that nothing ever happens to white abortionists who leave young black women dead. I’m hurting real bad and want some justice for Belinda and all other women who go like sheep to slaughter.”

At least eight women are known to have died at the hands of abortionists at Inglewood Women’s Hospital: Jannet Foster, Margaret Davis, Kathy Murphy, Lynette Wallace, Cora Mae Lewis, Yvonne Tanner, and Belinda Byrd. All women but one who died were African-American.

At least four of the abortionists at Inglewood Women’s are known: Morton Barke, M.D., Scott Ricke, M.D., Gordon Goei, M.D., and Stephen Pine, M.D. All doctors were disciplined for gross negligence against women. Besides Barke, there were:

Scott Ricke – censured by the medical board of Arizona in November of 1986 for performing an after-hours abortion on a woman while alone with her, and for reportedly having sex with her first.

In another case, Shanda was 25 years old when she went to Ricke for an abortion on February 7, 1987 at his Women’s Surgical Clinic in Arizona. During the abortion, Shanda said, the head of the fetus became lodged. She was screaming in pain, but Ricke refused her request for painkillers by telling her that he didn’t have any. She asked to be taken to a hospital, but Ricke told her that since her pregnancy was more than 24 weeks along, beyond the 24-week limit most hospitals observed, no hospital would take her.

After three hours of attempts to remove the head, Ricke wrapped the body of the fetus — which was hanging out of Shanda’s vagina — in a towel, and loaded Shanda into an employee’s car to be transported to the hospital.

The Assistant Arizona Attorney General investigated the case and asserted that during the three hours he spent trying to dislodge Shanda’s fetus, Ricke left her several times to do other abortions.

Gordon Goei – his medical license was revoked outright when he killed a 6.5-month-old baby and nearly killed the mother. According to the L.A.Times on March 21, 1998, “[Goei was] a recently suspended doctor with a long history of medical complaints [who] has been arrested on suspicion of murder after performing an abortion that left his patient bleeding uncontrollably and a 26-week-old fetus in the trash at a Van Nuys clinic.”

Stephen Pine – Pine was named in the suit filed by Mattie Byrd on behalf of her daughter Belinda (see above). According to papers filed in this suit, Belinda Byrd’s baby was Pine’s 74th abortion that day.

In February 1988 the health department of Los Angeles County shut down Inglewood Women’s Hospital after a 14-year history of deficiencies and serious violations of the state health code. And deaths to women. Immediately, Barke sold the place to fellow abortionist Edward Allred, M.D. of the Family Planning Associates abortion chain. Barke said he became a manager for Allred.

As of December 2012 Barke was 77 years old and maintained his medical license. He owned the Evaluation Center for Medical Marijuana in Venice. At the time, Barke lived in a condo in Playa Vista, about four miles from his marijuana business.

As of December 2012 Scott Ricke was the medical director of the Institute for Aesthetic Medicine in La Jolla, where he supervised or did “Botox®/Dysport®; Dermal Fillers; Esthetician Services; Hair Removal; Skin Rejuvenation; Skin Tightening; Wrinkle Reduction.”

According to Wellness.com, Dr. Goei practiced obstetrics/gynecology, specializing in “female reproductive health issues” on Reseda Boulevard in Reseda. But a July 17, 2008 story on LawFuel.com said that Goei faced prosecution for tax evasion and wire fraud.

The Vitals.com website listed Dr. Pine’s ob-gyn practice at six locations. The main address was on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.

After three and a half years of legal wrangling, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in August of 1985 ordered the 16,433 mangled babies’ bodies found in Woodland Hills in 1982 to be turned over to the Guerra-Gutirrez-Alexander Mortuary for burial. The mortuary was selected because it didn’t have a religious affiliation.

To comply with a court order that the identity of the mothers, babies and abortionists be concealed, the Los Angeles County Health Department ordered the bodies to be dumped in bulk out of the individual containers into six coffin-sized plywood boxes lined with plastic. The department assured the ACLU that there would be no containers with identifying marks. While the ACLU would not object, the Feminist Women’s Health Center petitioned the Los Angeles Superior Court to block the burial, but the courts refused.

The largest babies were carefully placed inside. The smaller bodies were finally placed within each box until all six coffins were filled. The weight of each of the six boxes containing the 16 thousand babies’ bodies was so heavy that six adult men were needed to carry each of the six coffins.

On Sunday afternoon, October 6, 1985 six grey hearses carrying the coffins arrived at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Boyle Heights. The non-denominational Odd Fellows Cemetery was chosen after pro-abortionists importuned the courts to block burial in a Catholic or other religious-affiliated cemetery, which had offered burial spaces.

Hundreds of people attended, including county supervisor Michael Antonovich, who read a eulogy from Ronald Reagan. Reagan’s message stated: “Just as the terrible toll of Gettysburg can be traced to a tragic decision of a divided Supreme Court, so also can these deaths we mourn. Once again a whole category of human beings has been ruled outside the protection of the law by a court ruling which clashed with our deepest moral convictions.”

(Reagan had written a letter in May, 1982 encouraging a memorial for the 16,000 babies. White House counsel — now Supreme Court Chief Justice — John Roberts wanted theletter to be kept private. But the letter was published widely, including in the American Holocaust brochure.)

Others in attendance were U.S. Rep. Bob Dornan, state Senate President David Roberti, and state Sen. Joseph Montoya. Archbishop Roger Mahony was unavailable to attend, but Auxiliary Bishop John Ward attended and blessed the graves and bodies. Hank Stolk, the employee who was the Martin Container company employee involved in discovering the bodies, also gave a testimonial.

Interesting quote from the article: (Reagan had written a letter in May, 1982 encouraging a memorial for the 16,000 babies. White House counsel — now Supreme Court Chief Justice — John Roberts wanted the letter to be kept private. But the letter was published widely, including in the American Holocaust brochure.)

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Coincidentally, these little boys and girls are buried at the same cemetery as my own father - Oddfellows Cemetery.

I put all 6 parts on this post. I will post links to the other 5 parts in a follow up comment.

2 posted on 07/28/2023 4:36:38 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)

3 posted on 07/28/2023 4:43:56 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)

Back in 1969, I took my then girl friend to the Little Rock State Fair. In one of the fairway exhibits was shown “the development of humans in the womb.”
We went in. It was quickly obvious these were aborted babies in glass jars. This was when abortion was still illegal.

5 posted on 07/28/2023 8:50:10 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)

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