The morgue manager and his wife are accused of selling body parts to buyers, including one who specialized in 'creepy dolls, oddities and bone art'; one payment memo for $200 reportedly read 'braiiiiiins' (via toofab)
, she often posted to Instagram about her creations, and showed off one in 2020 which she boasted had a"real human skull." At the time, she said,"If you're in the market for human bones hit me up." She even continued to post about her bone art after the FBI searched her home in March of this year. The social media pages for her business have since been shut down.
, Maclean once shipped human skin to Jeremy Pauley and"engaged in his services to tan the skin to create leather." She is said to have paid him in more skin, instead of money. Maclean also allegedly asked Cedric to supply more tissue to send to"the dude I sent the chest piece to tan," and later contacted the buyer to confirm the shipment's arrival by saying,"wanted to make sure it got to you and I don't expect agents at my door.
Taylor, meanwhile, is said to have had 39 different transactions to a PayPal account allegedly operated by Denise, totaling $37,355.56. The memo for one payment for $200 read"braiiiiiins," while another for $1,000 said"head number 7", according to authorities. Both Taylor and Maclean are accused of reselling the stolen remains for profit., after authorities received a complaint about possible body parts being sold on Facebook.
Per the Attorney's Office, Scott, who was previously indicted,"stole parts of cadavers she was supposed to have cremated, many of which had been donated to and used for research and educational purposes by an area medical school, as well as the corpses of two stillborn babies who were supposed to be cremated and returned as cremains to their families." Some of those stolen remains were allegedly sold by Pauley to Matthew Lampi and exchanged more than $100,000 in online payments.
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