Special Report: A Business Where Human Bodies Were Butchered, Packaged and Sold

Special Report: A Business Where Human Bodies Were Butchered, Packaged and Sold
A sign points to the delivery entrance at Biological Resource Center, one of several human body donation companies that was under investigation by the FBI, in Phoenix, Arizona, on Dec. 17, 2017. REUTERS/Caitlin O'Hara
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PHOENIX—Sam Kazemi stood over the old man’s corpse. Nearby lay pliers, a scalpel and a motorized saw designed to cut drywall and pipe.

On a busy day, Kazemi might harvest body parts from five or six people who had donated their bodies to science. On this day in November 2013, the corpse before Kazemi typified the donors who gave their remains to his employer, Biological Resource Center.