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Family Files Complaint in Organ Scandal

Written by DeadGirl

Saturday, 20 October 2007

By DAVID GAMBACORTA

Rosalie Carter died of cancer at age 80 on Jan. 24, 2005, but she wasn't allowed to rest in peace for long. Carter's remains were entrusted to a Kensington crematory owned by three local funeral- home operators - Louis Garzone, his brother, Gerald Garzone, and James McCafferty - who were all in the morbid business of illegally harvesting body parts. Workers at Liberty Cremation Inc. falsified Carter's death certificate to make it appear that she was younger and healthier when she died, and promptly went to work harvesting her tissue, according to court documents obtained by the Daily News.
Attorneys Lawrence R. Cohan and Melissa Fry Hague filed a civil complaint in Common Pleas Court yesterday on behalf of Carter's son against McCafferty, the Garzone brothers and other key figures in the national body-parts scandal.

Carter's son, William, learned about a year-and-a-half after she died that his mother's body had been harvested at Liberty Cremation .

"I'm not sure you can measure just how distressed the victims' families are," Cohan said.

Earlier this month, a Philadelphia grand jury indicted McCafferty, 37, of Frankford; Louis Garzone, 65, of Kensington; Gerald Garzone, 47, of North Wales, Montgomery County; the alleged national ringleader, Michael Mastromarino, 44, of Fort Lee, N.J.; and Lee Cruceta, 34, of Monroe, N.Y.

According to the grand jury, McCafferty and the Garzone brothers pocketed nearly $250,000 for stealing diseased body parts from the corpses of 244 Philadelphians and selling them to Mastromarino's company, Biomedical Tissue Services.

BTS resold the diseased tissue to four companies that processed it for hospitals. *

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20071020_Family_files_complaint_in_organ_scandal.html

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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries