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NEW YORK - The mastermind of a scheme to plunder corpses from funeral homes and sell them for millions of dollars pleaded guilty Tuesday in a deal that could send him to prison for the next five decades.
ADVERTISEMENTMichael Mastromarino, a 44-year-old former oral surgeon, confessed to the judge that he carried out the scheme from 2001 to 2005. He will face between 18 years and 54 years, and will have to forfeit $4.68 million.
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Leader of body parts scheme makes plea
News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:50 PM EDT
Article Source: Yahoo! News
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Authorities released photos of exhumed corpses that were boned below the waist. Prosecutors said the defendants had made a crude attempt to cover their tracks by sewing PVC pipe back into the bodies in time for open-casket wakes.
Dressed in a button-down Ralph Lauren shirt and blue jeans, Mastromarino methodically outlined the gruesome scheme in a nearly hourlong confession.
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#1 - Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:51 PM EDT{"commentId":1596820,"authorDomain":"myriver"}
Funeral homes are creepy enough as it is!
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{"commentId":1600243,"authorDomain":"SVForbes"}
They truly are.
This, is really getting pretty low, though.
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{"commentId":1600398,"authorDomain":"myriver"}
Yeah....
So....how can I help my family harvest my body parts for cash? (The market can't be totally illegitimate.)
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I guess, if the dead person could specify in their will that relatives of the dead person could harvest and sell body parts, but ONLY if the relatives reaped the profits...., then that put's it in a new light.
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