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.
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