The indictment alleges the woman approached the man in 2021 and began selling him remains that the mortuary was supposed to cremate and return to an Arkansas medical school.
An Arkansas woman has pleaded not guilty to charges that she sold 20 boxes of stolen body parts from medical school cadavers to aThe April 5 indictment, unsealed Friday in federal court in Little Rock, accuses Candace Chapman Scott, 36, a former mortuary worker, of setting up the transactions with a man she met through a Facebook group about "oddities."
The buyer is not identified in the federal indictment, but separate state charges in Pennsylvania name him as Jeremy Lee Pauley, of Enola, Pennsylvania. "Just out of curiosity, would you know anyone in the market for a fully in tact, embalmed brain?" the indictment alleges Scott wrote to Pauley in her first Facebook message.
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