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Judge dismisses families' lawsuits against Harvard over morgue scandal
Families who sued Harvard University after loved ones’ remains were stolen and sold on the black market have had their cases dismissed. Paula Peltonovich says she was told her dad, whose body was donated to Harvard Medical School for research, is one of the victims of the morgue scandal. “To know somebody bought something of my father’s, or multiple...
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Pa. man pleads guilty to charges in Harvard Medical School stolen body parts case
A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from the theft and sale of human body parts taken from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary.
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Man pleads guilty in human body part case tied to Harvard Medical School
A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from the theft and sale of human body parts taken from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary. Jeremy Pauley of Thompson pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property.
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New arrest in suspected stolen body parts ring tied to Harvard Medical School
A Kentucky man was arrested this week on a weapons charge after being investigated as part of the suspected human body parts ring that led to a Harvard Medical School morgue official’s arrest last month. The man, William Nott, had about 40 human bones, including skulls, at his house in Mt. Washington, Kentucky, as well as a Harvard Medical School…
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Class-action suit filed over alleged Harvard morgue body part thefts
A class-action suit, filed in Massachusetts’ Suffolk Superior Court Friday, seeks “monetary damages for the severe emotional distress caused” by an alleged body part-selling scheme at the Harvard Medical School morgue.
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‘The whole thing's wrong': Loved ones respond to theft and sale of human remains
Charges have been brought against a group of people accused of stealing parts of donated bodies from Harvard Medical School’s morgue and selling them on the black market
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Feds: Human brains, skin stolen from Harvard morgue, sold on black market
A group of people stole and sold off human remains from Harvard Medical School’s morgue, federal prosecutors say, with a grand jury indicting the morgue’s manager and his wife, among others.