FBI finds ‘bucket of heads, arms, and legs,’ bodies sewn together at facility

A lawsuit against a body donation and tissue bank facility in Phoenix, Arizona, that the FBI raided in 2014 includes gruesome details of what was found there.

According to newly released testimony, investigators found buckets full of human heads and other body parts, as well as parts of two people sewn together and hung up on a wall.

The FBI raided the Biological Resource Center in 2014 as part of a human body parts trafficking investigation.

” This is a horror story, it’s just unbelievable. This story is unbelievable, ” said Troy Harp, whose mother’s and grandmother’s bodies were donated to that center.

For years, Harp has been living a nightmare. He’s one of 30 plaintiffs in the lawsuit against BRC . When his loved ones’ bodies were donated to the facility in 2012 and 2013 at their request, it was with the understanding they would be used for scientific purposes. “Cancer, and leukemia, and whatever else — using sample cells – that’s what I was told,” Harp said.

But that’s not what happened.

In 2014, the FBI raided the facility in hazmat suits as part of a multi-state investigation into the illegal trafficking and sale of human body parts.

Now, in 2019, testimony from one of the FBI agents who conducted the raid has been made public.

He said he found “a cooler filled with male genitalia … a bucket of heads, arms and legs … infected heads,” and one finding that the lawsuit calls a morbid joke – a woman’s head sewn onto a male torso and hung up on a wall.

The lawsuit also says the bodies were cut up with chain saws and band saws, pools of human blood and bodily fluids were found on the floor of the freezer, and there were no identification tags on the bodies.

Harp said his mother’s ashes showed up by mail on his doorstep shortly after the raid, but he isn’t even sure they’re her ashes.

He says his mom and grandma wanted to help medical research after their death, but he doesn’t believe they ever made it out of the BRC building.

Asked if he feels that he has gotten any closure since then, Harp said “No. This is open, and I don’t think I ever will.”

BRC owner Stephen Gore was sentenced to one year of deferred jail time and four years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to illegal control of an enterprise.

Harp said that is not enough, and he wants to see more federal regulation of facilities like BRC .

The lawsuit against the center is ongoing.

In 2015, the FBI said its body donation investigation was also looking into three facilities in Illinois and one in Michigan .