December 17, 2025, 3:45 p.mDecember 17, 2025, 3:45 p.m
The former head of the morgue at Harvard Medical Institute has been sentenced to eight years in prison for illegal trafficking in body parts. As the US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday (local time), the 58-year-old’s wife was also sentenced to one year in prison for aiding and abetting.
The accused is said to have traded the body parts between 2018 and 2022. (symbol image)Image: keystone
The convicted man was in charge of the mortuary at Harvard University’s Medical Institute until his arrest in May 2023. According to the investigation, between 2018 and 2022, he stole organs and other parts from corpses that had been donated to the Institute for Medical Research. The stolen body parts included hands, heads, faces and brains.
Without the knowledge of the donors’ relatives and his employer, he took the body parts home and, together with his wife, sold and sent them to interested parties. (sda/afp)
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