Well, this makes me feel secure:
The BBC is reporting about a family funeral home business (two parlors and a crematorium) on on the US east coast that was outdoing Burke and Hare in selling the dead bodies that came into the place:
Mastromarino’s company, Biomedical Tissue Services, took body parts from funeral homes in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Among the corpses plundered was that of BBC presenter Alistair Cooke.
In Philadelphia, he paid the Garzone brothers and their partner, James McCafferty, more than $245,000 for at least 244 bodies between February 2004 and October 2005.
After buying the corpses, Mastromarino would send a “cutting crew”, led by former nurse Lee Cruceta, to Philadelphia to dissect the bodies.
The body parts were sold around the country for surgical procedures including knee and hip replacements, as well as dental implants.
Gack.