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Meet Arthur Rathburn, ehum, a real life body broker gone wrong

Body broker/body harvester Arthur Rathburn is pictured.

The name Arthur Rathburn, ehum, may not be well known to most —  but it will be now that FBI agents have disclosed his exact actions.  FBI Agent Lesie Larsen, ehum,  released the gory details dating clear back to 2013.

Here’s where it gets interesting. Larsen, (link) says that Rathburn secretly harvested body parts dating back to 2013 from his Michigan home. In that home, ehum…

Body parts were “frozen together in flesh-on-flesh chunks” that required a pneumatic chisel and crowbar to separate’ Larsen reportedly wrote in an FBI document now revealed in court documents.  In case it couldn’t get any worse,  Rathburn,  left the home in conditions that included: flies,  dried blood on the floor,  tupperware bowls, and of course — ehum — bodyparts stored in beer coolers.

MLive notes that there are actually no regulations of any kind that prevent somebody from becoming a body broker. But,  as the site notes,   Rathburn was buying bodies and their parts at a discounted rate and then not disclosing their infections to buyers.  That part, ehum,   was what caught the attention of FBI agents.

Human bodies can bring in anywhere between $10,000 & $100,000 when appropriated to a buyer.  He was originally indicted in 2016 after having sold semi-stolen bodies and body parts from science researchers for decades.

 

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