VIDEO: Body parts sold online were donated to research, Arkansas hospital says
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A Little Rock woman has been sentenced to more than a decade for stealing human remains and transporting them across state lines to sell them.
The office of U.S. Attorney Jonathan stated that 37-year-old Candace Chapman Scott was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for transporting human body parts out of Arkansas and conspiracy to commit mail fraud. There is no parole in the federal prison system.
According to prosecutors, an investigation found that Scott stole human body parts and fetal remains while she was an employee of a mortuary services provider between October 2021 and July 2022.
Authorities said Scott would sell the stolen remains to a purchaser in Pennsylvania whom she met through a Facebook group that openly discussed the sale of body parts. Scott sent the purchaser 24 boxes of stolen human remains, including two fetuses.
Prosecutors said Scott told the purchaser that ashes of other cremated bodies would be returned to the fetuses’ parents, instead of the ashes of their children.
The remains authorities said were stolen included a skull, multiple brains, an arm, an ear, multiple lungs, multiple hearts, multiple breasts, a belly button, testicles and other parts.
While executing a search warrant of Scott’s home, investigators said they found numerous stolen body parts that she admitted she transported in trash bags from her work.
Scott received $10,625 from the purchaser in Pennsylvania for the human remains, prosecutors said.
In addition to prison time, U.S. District Judge Brian S. Miller sentenced Scott to a total of three years of supervised release, a fine of $10,625 and restitution in the amount of $1,800.
Scott was indicted in April 2023 and pled guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and interstate transportation of stolen property in April 2024.
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