Venezuela
After a young woman was shot dead in Texas, a medical school harvested her body parts
Aurimar Villegas’ family fought to bring her body home to Venezuela. Instead, it was sent to the University of North Texas Health Science Center, where it was cut up for science.
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research.
Every day for two seemingly endless months, Arelis Coromoto Villegas repeated the same prayer: From her small, cinder-block home in V... [5715 chars]