Clinic sewed woman’s head on man’s body

BODIES donated to medical research by relatives were mangled in grisly experiments like something from the pages of Frankenstein – including a woman’s head sewn on a male corpse.

Limbs in buckets and organs in a cooler were among 1,755 body parts weighing a total of ten tons found when US officials raided the Biological Resource Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

The news has emerged after 33 people whose loved ones’ bodies were donated to the clinic began a civil action, which is due to go to court in October. They said the firm claimed the bodies would be used for disease research or organ donation.

But a year after it was raided in 2014, owner Stephen Gore was convicted of operating an illegal business and was found to have been selling body parts.

The price listed ranged from £2,300 for a torso to £300 for a knee. In a declaration for the lawsuit, former FBI special agent Mark Cwynar described seeing ‘infected heads’ and a small woman’s head attached to a male torso in a ‘Frankenstein manner’.

Troy Harp, who donated the bodies of his mother and grandmother, said he thought their remains would be used to help cure diseases, adding: ‘Cancer, and leukaemia and whatever else, using sample cells – that’s what I was told. This is a horror story. It’s just unbelievable.’