“1,200 Euros per corpse”: Funeral home owners illegally sell bodies to medical universities

The story could be straight out of a detective series. The owners and two employees of a funeral home in Valencia, Spain, were arrested for body trafficking. The bodies were sold to medical universities for 1,200 euros, police announced Monday, and according to reports This dispatch through AFP.

Spanish police said in a press release that the crooks “created false documents to remove bodies from hospitals and retirement homes so they could later be sold to universities for study.” In total, at least 11 corpses were allegedly sold illegally.

The skeptics also accused the universities of facilitating the cremation of the bodies of the studied or dismembering them into pieces in the coffins of others who were to be cremated.

“People who die without family, preferably foreigners”

It was in 2023 that the Spanish police began to investigate this dark chapter. They discovered that two employees of the funeral home had forged documents to sell the body to the university instead of burying it in the hospital’s mortuary.

For the sake of discretion, the suspects were looking for “dead people without family, preferably foreigners”, police said.