Mortuary worker 'sold stolen body parts to man she met on Facebook for $11,000'

DAILY STAR

A former mortuary worker in Arkansas has denied selling stolen body parts to a man she met on Facebook.

Candace Chapman Scott, 36, has been charged with selling at least 20 boxes of body parts taken from medical corpses to 40-year-old Jeremy Lee Pauley.

It is alleged the sales were set up after the pair met through a Facebook group about “oddities.”

Scott allegedly asked Pauley in their first message exchange: “Just out of curiosity, would you know anyone in the market for a fully in tact, embalmed brain?”

It is alleged that over the next nine months, Scott sold Pauley fetuses, brains, hearts, lungs, genitals and other body parts, including one sale of a foetus at a discounted price, with Scott allegedly writing “he’s not in great shape.”

Scott, of Little Arkansas, pleaded not guilty to 12 counts including mail fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property and interstate transportation of stolen property.

According to the indictment, which was unsealed on Friday, Scott worked at Arkansas Central Mortuary Services and while Pauley is not named as the buyer in the indictment, he was named in separate state charges.

Part of Scott’s role at the funeral home included transporting, cremating and embalming remains and according to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the medical school sent remains of corpses that had been donated for science to the home.