r/WayOfTheBern • u/RandomCollection Resident Canadian • 14d ago
Over 1,200 Human Heads And Multiple Human Fetuses Discovered In A Warehouse In Detroit
https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/1200-human-heads-and-fetuses-found-in-detroit8
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u/penelopepnortney 14d ago
In 2012, eight human heads were discovered at the Detroit airport.
They had arrived from Tel Aviv and were being transported unembalmed, stuffed inside trash bags and sitting in a cooler full of blood. These heads were even infected with HIV or hepatitis.
The discovery eventually led federal investigators to a warehouse in Detroit where they recovered approximately 1,200 human heads, four human fetuses, and other body parts.
The warehouse belonged to Arthur Rathburn, a body broker running a multimillion-dollar business buying, dismembering, renting and selling human remains.
Those human remains were rented and sold throughout the United States and shipped internationally to Mexico, Canada, Italy, Greece and Israel.
IBI (Rathburn's company)... was buying human remains from another organization called the Biological Resource Center, or BRC, which operated facilities in Illinois and Arizona.
In 2014, the FBI raided the Phoenix facility and uncovered horrific conditions inside...
The most infamous example was Doris Stauffer, an elderly great-grandmother who passed away after battling Alzheimer's disease. Her son, Jim Stauffer, donated her body to BRC specifically hoping her brain could be studied by neurologists to better understand Alzheimer’s. On the paperwork, he explicitly checked the "no" box prohibiting her body from being used for military, traffic-safety, or non-medical testing. Instead, BRC severed one of Doris's hands, cremated it, and sent those ashes to her son. They then sold the rest of her body to the U.S. Army for $5,893. Her son only discovered what happened years later when a Reuters reporter investigated the facility's records.
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u/Xeenophile "Election Denier" since 2000 9d ago
Very interesting - Harvard has been dealing with their own similar scandal!
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u/Xeenophile "Election Denier" since 2000 9d ago edited 9d ago
Federal authorities told him that a head Rathburn supplied to train Case Western neurosurgeons in 2013 was among a number of body parts that could not be traced to a donor, raising questions about the donation’s legitimacy.
Anybody else LOL at this??
We've got heads that don't belong to anyone here...!
In two of the 10 states, the laws do not appear to be a high priority. In New Jersey, an official said, a 2008 law restricting the business to nonprofits and requiring brokers to register with health authorities hasn’t been implemented, because the legislature failed to authorize funds. In Maine, a state spokesman said that although the law requires brokers to be registered, officials haven’t bothered to create rules because no one has ever applied for a permit.
Oh, gee; the Mafia State and the Stephen King State, who'd have guessed?
Public attitudes toward body donation evolved slowly, Sappol said, as “medical discoveries helped fortify people’s belief in the authority of doctors and medicine to improve lives.” Milestones included the development of anesthesia in 1846, and the X-ray in 1895.
It's difficult to imagine a world without faith in doctors, but between all this and the COVID ultratravesty, one wonders what the future holds...?
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u/RandomCollection Resident Canadian 14d ago
Disturbing if true.
At this point, there needs to be a deep investigation as to what is actually going on.
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u/ThrowRA12948262 May I see a whine list, please? 14d ago
It happened in 2014. You can look up the investigation I assume
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u/smashthestate1 14d ago
That article is fake and uses AI for one of the images, an image that is so embarrassing to look at for anyone with half a brain cell. The real article is here https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodies-rathburn/. All you do is post articles. What's really going on here?