NBC News Investigates: Dealing the Dead, Part 2: After NBC News began investigating a medical center in Texas that was making money by dissecting, studying, and exporting hundreds of unclaimed bodies, the university suspended its program. In part two of this series, NBC News' Liz Kreutz looks at how prevalent the practice is, and the ethics of it.
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. For five years, the unclaimed dead of Dallas and Tarrant counties were delivered to the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. There, the bodies were assessed based on their usefulness to medical science: Those that tested positive for infectious diseases or had begun to decompose were cremated.
The database is based on spreadsheets of unclaimed bodies obtained through open records requests from the county medical examiners. The vast majority of these names have not been made public previously. Tarrant County does not routinely publish the names of unclaimed people on the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUS, a free public database meant to connect the dots between reports of missing people and unclaimed bodies.
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