Burke and Hare are back in business -- in Brooklyn
Ghoulish body parts for sale ring stole the bones
of "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke just before he was
cremated...
Ghoulish body parts for sale ring stole the bones of "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke just before he was cremated...
The celebrated broadcaster and actor died March 30, 2004, of lung cancer that spread to his bones.
The next day, without permission of any family members, body snatchers surgically carved out the 95-year-old's diseased bones.
The bones were sold for more than $7,000 to two tissue processing companies for eventual transplant procedures, sources told The News.
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The alleged leader of the body-snatching ring is Michael Mastromarino, whose operations are under investigation by the Brooklyn district attorney's office.
Mastromarino ran Biomedical Tissue Services Ltd., a tremendously profitable tissue recovery business that sold body parts, including bone, skin and cardiac valves.
It gets even more gruesome. Body snatchers on a grand scale.
Posted: Fri - December 23, 2005 at 06:02 AM