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Meet the collectors fueling the human remains market

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This is not your everyday kind of collecting. Body parts of donors stolen from the Harvard Medical School morgue were sold to people across the country. And the thefts discovered last summer exposed a thriving trade of human-remains buyers and sellers.

Reporter Ally Jarmanning met with some of these collectors to learn what draws them to this macabre trade.

This segment aired on June 26, 2024.

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Ally Jarmanning Senior Reporter
Ally is a senior reporter focused on criminal justice and police accountability.

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