Los Angeles
A California university official was arrested last week and charged with selling medical-school cadavers for profit. Embalmer Henry Reid, director of UCLA’s willed-body program, allegedly sold the bodies to entrepreneur Ernest Nelson, who was also arrested. Nelson cut up the cadavers and sold parts to dozens of private research labs. Nelson’s lawyer showed the Los Angeles Times invoices indicating that Nelson had bought 496 cadavers for $704,600 over six years. Nelson admitted everything, but said UCLA administrators had approved the sales. UCLA attorney Louis Marlin called the claim “ridiculous,” and said that Reid and Nelson were simply “crooks.”
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