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 ...

SCROLLING through social media, human feet, fingers and skulls are easily up for grabs – with soaring price tags for certain body parts. Grim as it might be, so-called “death brokers” are perfectly ...

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When 69-year-old Marietta Jinde died in September 2016, police had already been called to her home several times because of reports of possible abuse. A detective described conditions at the woman’s ...

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