FBI Agent Describes Grisly Warehouse in Start of Body Broker’s Trial

FBI Agent Describes Grisly Warehouse in Start of Body Broker’s Trial
FBI agents search the premises during a December 2013 raid on Arthur Rathburn’s warehouse in Detroit, Michigan. REUTERS/Steve Neavling/File Photo
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DETROIT—The warehouse of a Michigan man who sold donated body parts to researchers was littered with dead flies, dog bowls and human remains “frozen together in flesh-on-flesh chunks,” a federal agent testified Friday.

The grisly description came during the opening day in the federal trial of businessman Arthur Rathburn, who sold or leased donated body parts, including human heads, to medical researchers for two decades.