Body Parts Sale Scandal Uncovered

accused of selling bodies and body parts

a trial set to begin

in just months and tonight

new grizzly details of what the FBI says really happened.

ABC 15's Nicole Valdez is live

and Nicole this paints a frankenstein like picture

yeah it really does Katie and Steve

close for years this building off 24th street

the university doesn't look like much

but according to new claims in these court documents

the biological resource center was essentially running a chop shop

for human body parts mixing matching and selling them

in ways we never heard of until tonight

described as unsettling but it sounds a whole lot worse

one FBI agent revealing what it was really like inside

the Phoenix body donation facility in 2014

he saw everything from buckets of heads arms and legs

to coolers filled with severed penises

when the FBI raided the building

confused and angry we thought this was going to be doing some good

he even spotted a smaller head sewn onto a larger torso

in a quote frankenstein manner

it wasn't a choice we made it wasn't a choice any of the families made

body parts piled on top of each other inside biological resource center

where families donated their loved ones for medical research

discoveries of sickness and disease maybe come up with a cure

some say the company violated everything they promised

tragedy that's never resolved and it just keeps going on and deeper and deeper

the limbs according to that agent with no apparent identification

the company sued months after the FBI raided families

claiming their loved ones weren't treated with dignity and respect

a promise written on their own consent forms

the company also accused of selling body parts for profit

after saying they'd only use the parts they needed and would cremate the ones they didn't

a torso with a head apparently went for twenty four hundred bucks

a leg about eleven hundred they'd even sell knees and feet alone

for under five hundred now the owner of the by