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Arkansas woman pleads not guilty to selling over 20 boxes of stolen human body parts

She was hired to cremate medical cadavers. But first, she harvested organs, skin and genitalia and sold them to a man she met through a Facebook group called Oddities, according to court documents.
A federal court in Little Rock says Candance Chapman Scott illegally sold and shipped human body parts taken from medical cadavers from the University of Arkansas Medical School.

An Arkansas woman has pleaded not guilty to charges she stole body parts from medical school cadavers and sold them through Facebook for $11,000.

Candace Chapman Scott, a 36-year-old former mortuary services worker, is accused of selling 20 boxes of everything from human skin to skulls to a man in Pennsylvania, according to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed by a Little Rock court

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