Yup, body-snatching. The two women involved were convicted of fraud and selling body parts out of a Colorado funeral home; they covered up their grisly trade by giving the family members of the corpses urns full of randomly mixed ashes. Note that this was not organlegging; they were selling heads, limbs, and other body parts to medical professionals for training purposes. …As has been happening in the medical profession for centuries.
Note that I don’t approve of grave-robbing, and that I applaud it being successfully prosecuted. The two women got maxed-out sentences of twenty years, which feels somewhere near right for a non-violent crime of this enormity. I was just struck by one understandably distraught relative who said, “We don’t even have a name for a crime this heinous.” …Well, actually, in point of fact we do. I know it’s a very macabre thing to learn about in school, but maybe they could find a spare half hour to bring it up?
Via Hot Air.
Moe Lane
PS: I checked with Eldest Son. He confirmed they don’t learn about it in school, but he’s still picked up many of the details already from the Internet. …Well, that’s something, at least.