A ‘Frankenstein’ of sewn together corpses was found at a body donation center that kept ‘a bucket of heads, arms, and legs,’ authorities say.
The gruesome discoveries were found during a 2014 FBI raid at the Biological Resource Center (BRC) in Pheonix, Arizona, according to recent testimony from a lawsuit.
An FBI agent claimed the BRC kept ‘a cooler filled with male genitalia, infected heads,’ and ‘a small woman’s head sewn onto a large male torso like Frankenstein and hung up on the wall,’ according to KTVK.
Authorities say the bodies were cut apart with chainsaws and band saws. Pools of blood and other bodily fluids were found on the freezer floor, they said.
Troy Harp, who is one of 33 people suing the facility, said: ‘This is a horror story. It’s just unbelievable! This story is unbelievable.’
Harp said he donated both his mother and grandmother’s bodies to the BRC to be used for scientific purposes.
The facility reportedly sent him his mother’s ashes in the mail, but Harp said he is now unsure if they were really his mother’s.
FBI agents ultimately found 1,755 human body parts during their raid of the BRC. They removed the bodies in 142 separate body bags weighing 10 tons, Reuters reported.
According to former FBI agent Mathew Parker, some agents who were apart of the raid have since been diagnosed with PTSD.
Parker said: ‘I couldn’t sleep at night after seeing that. It just looked like a junkyard chop shop where they are just ripping things apart.’
Selling non-transplantable human body parts is legal in nearly every US state. Arizona and Colorado have recently passed new regulations for body brokers, but the industry is still vastly unregulated.
BRC owner Stephen Gore pleaded guilty in October 2018 to illegal control of an enterprise. He was sentenced to one year of deferred jail time, meaning he must only report to jail if a judge orders him, as well as four years of probation.
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