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: Bizarre Crimes of the Week

Update on No Respect for the Dead-or the Living

By David Lohr

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The Ghouls Who Sold Stolen Body Parts Back in May of this year I wrote about a group of ghouls that made substantial big bucks by selling stolen body parts (see No Respect for the Dead-or the Living) in a bizarre case that spanned three states. Now, Louis and Gerald Garzone, ages 66 and 48, respectively, two brothers who ran a Philadelphia funeral home and were deeply involved in the scheme masterminded by New Jersey dentist Michael Mastromarino, pled guilty to a body snatching scam on September 2, 2008. In their guilty plea, the two brothers admitted to selling as many as 244 corpses to Mastromarino's company, Biomedical Tissue Services, after raking in $245,000 for their efforts in the colossal chop shop rip-off. A week earlier Mastromarino, already serving 18 to 54 years in prison for his part in the operation that had been ran in New York, pleaded guilty to hundreds of charges that could potentially keep him in prison for the rest of his life...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on October 02, 2008 (boomark / email).