"UTHealth Houston had leased four bodies to Med Ed Labs. But when the company shipped them back to Houston, it sent a fifth unidentified and badly decomposing corpse. The extra body — packaged in a box that, according to one official, resembled cardboard pulled out of the trash — hadn’t come from Houston and shouldn’t have been delivered to the school, emails show.
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If you own a power saw, “you can run a body broker business,” said Thomas Champney, an anatomy professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine who researches the ethical use of human bodies.
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Unlike becoming, say, a hairdresser, massage therapist or social worker, Nassiri’s entry into the body business required no formal training, no state certification and no professional license.
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In December 2023, a Health Science Center official wrote to notify Nassiri that an internal audit had found that the center was missing nine pairs of ankles and feet that had been sent to Las Vegas more than two years earlier.
It’s unclear from the emails if the feet were ever found, and Nassiri told NBC News he had no memory of the incident. The Health Science Center didn’t answer questions about the status of the missing appendages."
