It's not quite Halloween yet, but this grizzly and apparently true tale comes to us now, nonetheless, from Associated Press:
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A man who found out the bone implanted in his neck to relieve back pain was stolen from a corpse is suing a medical technology company and several tissue processing businesses, including two in Tennessee.
... New York authorities believe Mastromarino, owner of now-defunct Biomedical Tissue Services, made deals with funeral directors to remove bones, tendons and heart valves from corpses without notifying their families or screening for disease. He has pleaded innocent to charges that include a felony punishable by up to 25 years in prison.
Mastromarino is accused of doctoring death certificates and forging consent forms, then replacing the bones with PVC pipe and sewing the incision so it would not be noticed at the funerals.
The body parts were shipped to processing firms nationwide, sterilized and then implanted in patients from early 2004 to September 2005.
(h/t - Stageleft)
- Garry J. Wise, Toronto
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