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military for thousands of dollars, which in turn used her body for blast-testing experiments. He hoped that it could help find a cure for the debilitating, incurable disease.īut three years later, reporters for Reuters investigating the trade of human cadavers and body parts called Stauffer with disturbing news: the Biological Resource Center had secretly sold Stauffer's mother's body to the U.S. One of the plaintiffs in the case, Jim Stauffer, donated the body of his mother, Doris, who had Alzheimer's, to the center after she passed in 2013. The company operated for a decade and took in thousands of bodies during that time. FBI agents found 10 tons of frozen human remains during the raid, including 281 heads, 337 legs, and 97 spines. impacts, crashes, ballistic injuries and blasts.'

The 33 plaintiffs allege that the center lied to them about what their loved ones bodies' would be used for. According to the lawsuit, the bodies 'were literally used as crash-test dummies, which meant they were used in experiments involving exposures to destructive forces, e.g. In 2015, after the Federal Bureau of Investigation brought to light what was happening at the facility, family members who had donated their loved ones' bodies in the hopes of furthering medical research or assisting others sued Gore and his company in Maricopa County Superior Court.

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But a civil trial against the company and its owner, Stephen Gore, is underway this week, with opening statements scheduled for Monday. The Biological Resource Center has since been shut down. Once the medical examiner determines a cause of death and publicly identifies the woman in the box, the 60-year-old could face more charges.įor updates on this story, follow Tom Abrahams on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.A cooler filled with male genitalia, buckets of heads, arms, and legs, and a woman's head sewn onto a man's torso are some of the sights that greeted federal agents when they raided a Phoenix-based body donation business in January 2014. His identity has been confirmed, but will not be named until he is officially charged. Records show as of Monday, the 60-year-old is in the the custody of Harris County.

'I couldn't comment on his motivation as to why he came back to the scene,' HPD Detective Matthew Hughey said at the scene Sunday. Police then spotted who they believe is that same man at the crime scene and took the 60-year-old in for questioning. Police say they found images through surveillance footage of a man wheeling the box on a dolly and dropping it off. Investigators tell ABC13 that the man faces an initial charge of tampering with or abusing a corpse. SEE ORIGINAL REPORT: Houston police found dead body inside U-Haul box outside apartment in southwest Houston The 60-year-old suspect was taken into custody near the apartment parking lot near the 7000 block of Bissonnet Street where the woman's body was found. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) - A suspect has been arrested after a woman's body was discovered in a U-Haul box at an apartment complex parking lot on Sunday afternoon in southwest Houston. Hear how witnesses were led to a horrifying ordeal. A gruesome discovery was made at a Houston apartment complex.

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