Posted on 04/25/2024 12:46:53 PM PDT by Vendome
In October 2021, a woman in the US state of Arkansas allegedly typed out a simple Facebook message: "Just out of curiosity, would you know anyone in the market for a fully intact, embalmed brain?"
The woman was a staffer at Arkansas Central Mortuary Services, and according to prosecutors, the message was sent to an antique dealer in Pennsylvania.
A search of his home would later uncover multiple buckets containing human remains, including pieces of brain, heart, livers, skin and lungs.
Investigators say the pair were part of an underground community spanning multiple states across the US, made up of both morgue staff and collectors willing to pay top dollar for human remains.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
The 'oddities' dealers and the 'tanned human skin' Several months before the woman in Arkansas allegedly contacted him, investigators say self-described "preservation specialist" Jeremy Pauley received a shipment of human skin in the mail.
A man with half his face including his eyeball tattooed Jeremy Pauley.(Supplied: Cumberland County DA) Pauley, 42, is a collector of "medical antiquities" and "tribal artefacts" who offered preservation restoration services.
"Specimens that are graciously donated to science deserve the upmost [sic] respect and care — long after their immediate use in the scientific field," he wrote on his website.
"Every body donated to science deserves to be used for its intended purpose, even if that requires months of conservative efforts to do so."
Somewhere around June or July, prosecutors say, Pauley was asked to tan the skin allegedly sent to him by Katrina Maclean.
Ms Maclean was herself an "oddities" dealer, running her business, Kat's Creepy Creations, out of Peabody, Massachusetts.
"[She] engaged his services to tan the skin to create leather," says a grand jury indictment.
"On or about July 31, 2021, Pauley sent a photograph of the leather and Maclean agreed to provide Pauley with human skin in lieu of monetary payment.
(You can read the rest of this freak show at the link)
not the bee [from hell]?
Makes the case for cremation. Although I once witnessed a “ceremony” on the beach where they didn’t go in to the water to empty the urn, it was just thrown onto the sand. SMH.
Harvard...
Just so you know
There is no low
Below which they will go
Which thoroughly explains the depravity of those grads that you’ve suspected of being idiots despite them telling you that they’re the best of the best.
I can’t imagine hating my parents, or myself, enough to do that to my face/head.
More Biden voters showing their true multicolors
Gasp, I had a liberal moment.
Let’s make that last line
Below which they will NOT go
Another reason I stopped signing my donor card and no longer want to be donated to a medical school after I die.
Not that I care, I will be in heaven, but to much of the body/organ trade gets dark.
"...So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde, and that's it hangin' on the shed!"
Hang on the shed? Well, buzzards gotta eat!
$20 is $20.
Yikes!
That’s why ‘me and mine’ are going to be resting in niches.
No relative is getting near our remains.
Anyone that touches my husbands sacred remains will get a visit from hell!
Abby Normal.
This character looks like he always has his eye out for spare parts.
Looks like he thought Mad Max was a handbook.
When I went to airborne school in 1988, one of the instructors ("black hats") told us that a WWII paratrooper had recently passed away and requested his cremains be scattered during a parachute drop. The family had gathered in the bleachers at Fryar Drop Zone at Ft. Benning to watch the scattering. The old timer's ashes had been scattered by a descending paratrooper but due to an unexpected shift in the winds, a portion of the ashes came down amongst and upon the gathered family members...
But what draws some people to collect someone else’s body parts?
“In our research, we often find that what people say about why they collect human remains is at odds with what they actually do with the human remains,” Graham and Huffer said. “People will say that they are collecting remains so that they don’t languish in a museum, so that they can be appreciated and ‘learned from,’ which begs the question, by whom?”
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The human remains trafficking experts said they often see the defense “Oh, not all collectors!” on the various platforms they monitor.
However, they said, “When you look at the large scale patterns in how people talk about what they’ve collected (on the order of tens of thousands of posts), and you look at large scale patterns in how they photograph or display them, it’s quite clear that having control over other people as represented by human remains is a strong latent factor in this trade writ large.”
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