Crystal River, Fla.
The daughter of baseball great Ted Williams, who died last week at 83, accused her half-brother of trying to freeze their father’s body in hopes of someday selling his DNA. Bobby-Jo Ferrell said an undertaker told her that Williams’ body was being shipped to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation cryonics lab in Arizona. “I will rescue my father’s body,” she said, vowing to get a court order against her half-brother, John Henry Williams. Williams, who has made a living selling baseball memorabilia connected to his father, was not available for comment. Ferrell’s husband, Mark, told the New York Post his brother-in-law visited the cryonics lab a year ago, and decided it would be neat to freeze his father “so he can play baseball in a hundred years.”
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