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A biomedical company that received donated dead bodies and then sold them for a profit for experiments such as IED blast tests has been ordered to pay $58 million to the families of the deceased individuals. A Maricopa County Superior Court jury awarded ten of the 21 families of donors $58 million, finding that Biological Resource Center (BRC) of Phoenix deceived them into donating their deceased loved ones’ bodies. The families later discovered the bodies were sold for a profit without their consent. A report at the Washington Post referred to BRC as a “human chop shop” and observed the...

LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - The staff at Gene Messer Volkswagen got a terrible shock on Wednesday, when they saw a dead body wrapped in a sheet in the back of a vehicle that had come in for an oil change.

Bara, 8 October 2011, Militants killed kidnapped Ex Cops of Bara Khyber agency. According to local sources militants have kidnapped five month back Sahib Khan from his home Bara Sepah area of Khyber agency. No one claim the responsibility of his kidnapping. Sahib Khan was Ex Sobadaar (Ranker cops) of Khasadar force, after his kidnapping his family contact with militants group , where they informed that after some day Sahib Khan will be released , but yesterday his dead body found in Bara Sepah area of Khyber agency. Local community informed the political agents of Bara Khyber agency about incident....

A Wichita man lived with his deceased loved one for days, hoping for a higher power to bring the woman back to life, police said. Officers were called to a welfare check in the 1000 block of S. St. Clair Wednesday evening. Investigators said neighbors called police, concerned they had not seen the woman recently. Police said a 54-year-old man answered the door, but did not want officers to enter the home. Authorities detained the man after a smelling a strong odor in the living room. Officers searched the home and found a 57-year-old woman in the bedroom, deceased. Officials...

Police Find Homeless Woman's Mummified Body In Passenger Seat COSTA MESA, Calif. -- A California woman who befriended a homeless woman and let her sleep in her car told police she didn't know where to turn when the woman unexpectedly died - so she drove the body around for months along with a box of baking soda to hide the smell, authorities said Thursday. snip The woman who drives the car, a 57-year-old who herself had fallen on hard times and was living with friends, told officers she had last seen the woman alive in December. It wasn't clear when...

~ EXCERPT ~ A former real estate agent drove with the partially mummified body of a homeless woman in the passenger seat of her car for between three and 10 months, according to a report. The grim discovery was made after the car was left partially blocking a driveway in Costa Mesa, Calif., on Monday and the police were called, the Orange County Register reported. When the officers arrived, they noticed a foul smell coming from inside the vehicle, a 1997 Mercury Marquis, and then saw a leg poking out from a pile of clothes used to conceal the body....

Two women placed their dead relative in a wheelchair and dressed him in sunglasses as they tried to check in at Liverpool airport for a flight to Germany. They later claimed the man was asleep. The women had already convinced a taxi driver that 91-year-old Curt Willi Jarant was well enough for the 45-minute drive to the airport from Oldham, a suburb of Manchester. Staff at John Lennon Airport in Liverpool noticed something was wrong. Andrew Millea, a worker who greeted the group with a wheelchair, said one of the women asked for help lifting her elderly father from the...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sunday, December 18, 2005 PRESS CONTACT: Jasmyne Cannick (Local Media) (323) 839-0216 jasmynecannick@hotmail.com LaNiece Jones (Int’l and Nat’l Media) (510) 568-5899 lajpr@aol.com Viewing to Take Place on Monday, Memorial Service Slated for Tuesday LOS ANGELES - There will be a public viewing of Stanley Tookie Williams on Monday, December 19, 2005 from 3 p.m. until 9 p.m. at the House of Winston Mortuary located at 9501 South Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles. The memorial service for peacemaker Stanley Tookie Williams will take place Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 12 noon. The service will take place at Bethel...