In continuing legal proceedings related to Biomedical Tissue Services (BTS), nurse Lee Cruceta admitted January 30 in Philadelphia that he cut body parts from 244 corpses and helped forge paperwork so the parts, some of them diseased, could be used in unsuspecting patients, according to the Associated Press. Cruceta was the lead cutter in a group that trafficked in more than 1,000 stolen body parts for the lucrative transplant market.

He pleaded guilty to conspiracy, taking ...