MI cadaver dealer indicted in rented body parts case

Two years after federal agents raided his Detroit warehouse and discovered 1,000-plus human body parts, suburban Detroit businessman Arthur Rathburn has been indicted on charges he ran an illegal cadaver business that involved dismembering bodies without consent and renting heads, arms and legs riddled with disease to unsuspecting medical researchers. Among the parts discovered in the grisly case were eight human heads that were packed in a trash bag inside a blood-filled camping cooler, including one that came from a person who died from sepsis and pneumonia, court records show. Rathburn claimed the liquid in the cooler was "Listerine," the indictment alleges, when he "knew the liquid was blood."