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Article: SALE OF BODY PARTS INVESTIGATED IN TEXAS

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Sale of body parts investigated in Texas

GALVESTON, Texas, Jul 02, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- An investigation was under way Tuesday at the University of Texas Medical Branch where an employee allegedly sold body parts and the cremated remains of some people who willed their bodies to science were mixed up.

FBI spokesman Bob Doguim said agents are investigating whether an employee at the Galveston medical school was running an illegal body- part brokering operation.

"There may have been someone inside that program who was selling those body parts," he told the Houston Chronicle.

Doguim did not identify the suspect in the investigation. A ...

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