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huffingtonpost.com
Filed by Ashley Woods
Posted: 12/13/2013 6:19 pm EST | Updated: 12/14/2013 9:15 am EST
DETROIT, Mich.–FBI agents spent hours in Detroit Thursday investigating a business owned by a man who was previously alleged to be a member of the black market trade of human body parts.
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According to WXYZ-TV, bone fragments were recovered during the FBI investigation at the property located on Detroit’s east side, near the former city airport. The local ABC affiliate said the building is connected to a business named International Biological Inc., a biological research company owned by Arthur Rathburn of Grosse Pointe Park.
Here’s where it gets weird: the Detroit Free Press reports Rathburn was a subject of the 2006 book by Annie Cheney, Body Brokers: Inside America’s Underground Trade in Human Remains. The book is an expose of the underworld’s cadaver tradebased on her 2004 Harper’s article . A 1989 Toledo Blade article describes Rathburnas the coordinator of Michigan’s anatomical donation program.
From a 2006 Publishers Weekly review:
Readers will be horrified by this carefully researched exposé revealing that the trade in corpses for medical research and education didn’t go out with 19th-century grave robbers. Cheney, who won a Society of Professional Journalists award for the Harper’s article that gave rise to this book, describes the case of Arthur Rathburn, a morgue attendant at the University of Michigan Medical School, who supplied body parts to the American Association of Clinical Anatomists and other organizations until he was caught and fired.
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