Human Body Parts “Chop Shop” In Phoenix, Arizona

Turns Out The Human Body Parts “Chop Shop” In Phoenix, Arizona Details Are Far Worse Than They Told Us

“It's been more than five years since ABC 15 first exposed a scandal involving a body donation business in Phoenix. A place known as the Biological Resource Center and a place with one promise.

Connects those who wish to donate their body to science with medical research and education facilities.

Turns out the donation was just the beginning. The owner accused of selling bodies and body parts. The trial set to begin in just months and tonight new grisly details of what the FBI says really happened. ABC 15's Nicole Valdes is live and Nicole, this paints a Frankenstein-like picture.

Yeah, it really does. Katie and Steve closed for years. This building off 24th Street and University doesn't look like much. But according to new claims in these court documents, the biological resource center was essentially running a chop shop for human body parts, mixing, matching and selling them in ways we never heard of until tonight.

Described as unsettling, but it sounds a whole lot worse. One FBI agent revealing what it was really like inside the Phoenix body donation facility. In 2014, he saw everything from buckets of heads, arms and legs, to coolers filled with severed penises when the FBI raided the building. Confused and angry. We thought this was gonna be doing some good. He even spotted a smaller head sewn onto a larger torso in a quote, Frankenstein manner.

It wasn't a choice we made. It wasn't a choice any of the families made. Body parts piled on top of each other inside Biological Resource Center, where families donated their loved ones for medical research. Discoveries of sickness and disease. Maybe come up with a cure. Some say the company violated everything they promised. Tragedy that's never resolved, and it just keeps going on and deeper and deeper. The limbs, according to that agent, with no apparent identification.

The company sued months after the FBI raided families claiming their loved ones weren't treated with dignity and respect, a promise written on their own consent forms. The company also accused of selling body parts for profit after saying they'd only use the parts they needed and would cremate the ones they didn't and return them. A torso with a head apparently went for $2,400. A leg about $1,100.

They'd even sell knees and feet alone for under 500. Now the owner of the Biological Resource Center was already sentenced, but he was only given probation. He will be back in court in October though for several civil lawsuits filed by Arizona families. For now, we're live in Phoenix, Nicole Valdez, ABC 15, Arizona.”