US: Funeral directors charged over body-part sales

Three funeral directors sold 244 corpses for $1,000 (€710) each to a New York businessman who trafficked in the resale of often-diseased body parts, a court heard.

The stolen bones, skin and tissue – which are nearly impossible to trace from donor to recipient because of forged documents – were transplanted in unsuspecting medical patients worldwide, the grand jury in Philadelphia found. The case will now go to trial.