How ghouls have been stealing parts from corpses in city funeral homes
October 5, 2005 12:14

By WILLIAM SHERMANDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERA ghoulish ring trafficking in bones, tissue and other body parts illicitly harvested from corpses at funeral homes throughout the city is under investigation by the Brooklyn district attorney's office, the Daily News... (Read Article)

Nearly 1,000 corpses will be part of the Brooklyn district attorney's expanding probe into the illicit theft and sale of bones and other body parts carved from fresh corpses at funeral homes, the Daily News has learned. NY Daily News (Read Article)

By WILLIAM SHERMAN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

More than 30 bodies will have to be exhumed in an expanding probe into the trafficking of bones and tissue illegally harvested from corpses in funeral homes throughout the city, the Daily News has learned.

REASON: Regeneration Technologies, Inc. (RTI) is conducting a voluntary recall of all tissue received from BioMedical Tissue Services (BTS; Ft. Lee, New Jersey) as a result of information regarding the accuracy of donor screening documentation. RTI informed... (Read Article)