24 – Michael Mastromarino
A former dentist changed careers and opened a business that supplied human biological products to tissue banks. Disease screens, family consent, and proper refrigeration of cadavers are all steps he decided to omit.
A former dentist changed careers and opened a business that supplied human biological products to tissue banks. Disease screens, family consent, and proper refrigeration of cadavers are all steps he decided to omit.
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Research by: Haley Gray
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Alistair Cooke’s Bones Were Stolen for Implantation, His Family Says by NYT
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In New York, a Grisly Traffic in Body Parts by WaPo
Smile: How Dental Implants Can Transform Your Life by Michael Wiland and Michael Mastromarino Wife of ‘Body Snatcher’ details how she learned Michael Mastromarino illegally harvested corpses in new book by Fox News
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Grotesque scandal like a cheap horror movie by NBC News
In the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
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Body-parts defendant who aided prosecutors gets shorter term by the Philadelphia Inquirer
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Funeral Directors Plead Guilty in Body Part Plot by NBC News
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Lawsuit from ‘body parts’ scandal dismissed by Democrat & Chronicle
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Trial begins Monday in body parts case by Daily Messenger
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