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Hearts, brains and bones: Stolen body parts scandal stretches from Harvard to Kentucky
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Date:2025-04-19 22:27:24
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They bought and sold human hearts and lungs and livers and brains — not to mention skulls, spines, skin and fetuses. It was ghoulish and macabre.
But it also was profoundly sad for victims like a woman in Little Rock, Arkansas, identified in court papers only as D.S.
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