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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPolice: Indy man stole brains from museum, sold them for cash
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/01/01/police-indy-man-stole-brains-from-museum-sold-them-for-cash/4281433/Authorities say David Charles, a 21-year-old Indianapolis resident, is accused of breaking into the Indiana Medical History Museum multiple times this year and stealing jars of human brain tissue and other preserved material. A tipster who paid hundreds of dollars on the online auction site helped bring the organ entrepreneurism to an end.
The museum, 3045 W. Vermont St., is the site of the former Central State Hospital, which served patients with psychiatric and mental disorders from 1848 to 1994. Indianapolis police had investigated several break-ins at the museums storage facility before a California phone call led police to Charles.
A San Diego man who had bought six jars of human brain tissue off eBay for $600, plus $70 shipping, called the museum after noticing labels on the containers and suspecting some kind of skulduggery, according to court documents.
Detectives with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department used that tip to trace the transactions, eventually speaking to the eBay seller who provided the brain tissue to the San Diego man. That seller had obtained the brain matter from Charles, police said.
Wonder who purchased them? lol
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Police: Indy man stole brains from museum, sold them for cash (Original Post)
SummerSnow
Aug 2014
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malaise
(268,870 posts)1. This guy?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)2. Oh yeah, I thought it was him.lol
JEB
(4,748 posts)3. Does Boner have an eBay account?
His original brain is pretty well pickled and this would be an upgrade.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)4. This thread requires Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman