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Old 12-22-2005, 11:00 AM   #1 (permalink)
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TV host’s bones center of grisly plot

This is really sick & twisted! They should go to prison for a Long Time!


TV host Alistair Cooke's bones allegedly stolen
Thieves sold venerable broadcaster's body parts for $7,000, report says
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Updated: 12:23 p.m. ET Dec. 22, 2005

NEW YORK - A ghoulish ring of body part thieves stole the bones of Alistair Cooke, the late host of the PBS series “Masterpiece Theater,” and sold them for more than $7,000 to two tissue processing companies for eventual use in transplant procedures, it was reported Thursday.

The New York Daily News, quoting sources familiar with the case, said the body snatchers struck shortly after the broadcaster, journalist and actor died on March 30, 2004, of lung cancer that spread to his bones.

Without permission from family members, the thieves surgically carved out the 95-year-old’s diseased bones just before his remains were cremated, the newspaper said.

It identified the alleged ringleader of the body parts gang as Michael Mastromarino, who ran Biomedical Tissue Services Ltd., which sold body parts, including bone, skin and cardiac valves, to tissue processing companies.

Cooke’s bones were sold to Regeneration Technologies, Inc. of Alachua, Fla., and Tutogen Medical Inc. of Paterson, N.J., the Daily News reported. It said Cooke’s bones could have been used for dental implants or numerous orthopedic procedures, including dowels for damaged spines.

Cooke's friends and family were said to be outraged by the theft.

"I hope those guys burn in hell for what they did," the Daily News quoted longtime Cooke family attorney David Grossberg as saying.

The use of cancerous bone for transplant procedures would be a violation of Food and Drug Administration regulations and the use of body parts from the aged also is against transplant protocol, the newspaper said.

It quoted sources as saying that Mastromarino allegedly changed Cooke’s cause of death to a heart attack and changed his age from 95 to 85 in paperwork given to the two processing companies.

It said Mastromarino and former partner Joseph Nicelli, an embalmer, are being investigated by the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.
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Old 12-22-2005, 11:07 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Fucking... hell.

That's crazy. I mean, seriously, batshit crazy. Are you sure that's for real?
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Old 12-22-2005, 11:09 AM   #3 (permalink)
 
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Umm.. WHY?
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Old 12-22-2005, 11:10 AM   #4 (permalink)
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That's it! I'm getting creamated or shot into the sun!!!

EDIT: I'll schedule it to happen with armed guards not 15 minutes after my death. Man, this dying thing is getting expensive.

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Old 12-22-2005, 11:21 AM   #5 (permalink)
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He DID get cremated... they stole them before he did. sad...
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Old 12-22-2005, 11:21 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by willravel
That's it! I'm getting creamated or shot into the sun!!!
Not a guarantee of anything, unfortunately:

Quote:
Without permission from family members, the thieves surgically carved out the 95-year-old’s diseased bones just before his remains were cremated, the newspaper said.
Edit: Foiled! Curses!
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Old 12-22-2005, 11:30 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Hahaha... man that's gross.
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Old 12-22-2005, 12:31 PM   #8 (permalink)
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dem bones dem bones, dem literate bones.
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Old 12-24-2005, 12:51 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Old 12-25-2005, 04:29 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Just go to show, nothing too ghoulish that people won't try to make money off it. My wife is always very suspicious of funeral homes so I am sure she will make sure my remains are disposed of properly.
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