The Biological Resource Center in Phoenix, Arizona : Human Experimentation and Corpse Mutilation

At the Biological Resource Center, Burg said, many families were told that their loved ones’ bodies would go toward medical research to potentially help treat or even cure the ailments they’d suffered from. Cremation costs would also be covered.

Instead, body parts were diced up and sold, in some cases around the world, for profit. Some people also received boxes containing cement dust instead of their relatives’ ashes, he said.

“They said we’ve found your father’s head in Florida or, say, we think their body went to the human market in South East Asia,” the lawyer said.

 The FBI agent, identified as Mark Cwymar, described seeing buckets of human heads, arms, legs and male genitalia in a cooler. On one wall hung the body of a large man whose head had been replaced with the head of a small woman, sewn on in a “Frankenstein manner.” That macabre display was described as a “morbid joke.”

The tools the facility’s workers used included chainsaws and band saws. They were stored away in freezers that resembled meat lockers.