A former New Jersey funeral director has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a ring that illegally harvested body parts. Stephen Finley pleaded guilty in February to desecrating human remains and was sentenced Monday. Prosecutors say he and former Fort ...

Three men who conspired to plunder corpses and sell the sometimes diseased body parts were sentenced to prison Wednesday for what victims said was a gruesome, greedy scheme that violated basic principles of trust and human decency. In New Jersey, meanwhile ...

Two brothers who ran a pair of funeral homes and a crematorium admitted Tuesday that they sold corpses to a company that trafficked stolen body parts, a macabre scheme that left families aghast and unclear about the fate of their loved ones. Louis and Gerald Garzone pleaded ...

A former oral surgeon who admits he trafficked in stolen body parts is seeking a deal in Philadelphia that would run concurrent to his 18- to 54-year sentence in New York. But prosecutors here are balking at any 2-for-1 deal. They want Michael Mastromarino to serve an additional 20 to 40 years in Philadelphia, where they say his team of ...