A morbid mortuary worker pleads guilty to selling fetal remains and other stolen body parts. from medical school cadavers
According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas. 37-year-old Candace Chapman Scott was among several charged recently in what prosecutors have called a nationwide scheme to steal and sell human body parts. Scott was employed at Arkansas Central Mortuary Services, where part of her job was to transport, cremate and embalm remains. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock has said that’s where the medical school sent remains of cadavers that had been donated for medical students to examine.
An indictment accuses Scott of setting up the transactions with a Pennsylvania man she met through a Facebook group about “oddities.” That’s where she came into contact with Jeremy Lee Pauley of Thompson, Pennsylvania, who managed the morgue for Havard Medical School in Boston.
She agreed to plead guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and one count of interstate transportation of stolen property. Under a plea agreement with Scott, federal prosecutors dropped 10 other wire and mail charges sought against her. She faces up to 10 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine on the transporting stolen property charge. She also faces up to 20 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine on the mail fraud charge.
Police were then lead to the house of Jeremy Pauley on July 8 where an investigation was conducted after police were able to receive a search warrant for his property.
In his residence, Pauley was confirmed to have three full skeletons, approximately 15-20 human skulls, and buckets containing fifteen gallons of human remains and organs such as livers, brains, kidneys, etc., according to the affidavit.
The documents state Pauley, was found to have purchased these human body parts via Facebook from a female in Arkansas named Candace Scott:
One half head
One whole head minus the skull cap
Three brains with a skull cap
One heart
One liver
One lung
Two kidneys
One full female pelvis
One piece of skin with nipple
Four hands
Pauley was able to purchase the items from Scott for $4,000.
A sentencing date for Scott has not been scheduled. Pauley pled guilty in Pennsylvania last year and was sentenced to probation.
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