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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 11:25 AM
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Alistair Cooke's 'bones stolen': body parts trading ring suspected
Alistair Cooke's 'bones stolen'
By Guto Harri
BBC News, New York



An investigation is under way in New York into allegations that the bones of the late broadcaster Alistair Cooke were stolen before his cremation.
Mr Cooke, known for the Letter from America he broadcast for the BBC, died almost two years ago, aged 95.

According to the New York Daily News his bones were stolen by a criminal ring trading body parts.

They were later sold by a biomedical tissue company now under investigation, the paper claims.

This is a grim and ghoulish tale which has understandably appalled everyone who knew Alistair Cooke.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4552742.stm
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 11:27 AM
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1. Good god, that's horrible! n/t
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 11:30 AM
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2. EWWWWWW!
How many non-famous people's bodies suffer this same indignity?
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 11:32 AM
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4. 1982 Derby winner Shergar/Lord Lucan/entire crew of the Marie
Celeste/etc?
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 12:11 PM
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15. Well, another famous person had their bones stolen and that was
Thomas Paine. Never found, probably somewhere in England.
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 12:32 PM
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16. Isn't Geronimo's Skull in the "Skull & Bones" secret sex shrine?
The one where they have the gay sex that they use to keep each other in line thereafter?
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 01:22 PM
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17. That's what I've heard
doing it coffins no doubt. If they expose one person they expose them all.
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 01:59 PM
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19. what? n/t
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 02:46 PM
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20. Skull & Bones are reported to have stolen Geronimo's Skull.
Seriously; Google Search 'skull bones geronimo'
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GrpCaptMandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 02:54 PM
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21. Sick, psycho
pampered and powdered punk scions of the "better" classes!

I guess graverobbing is a virtue?

I recall reading about this somewhere else and an allegation that Prescott's daddy was in on the grave-robbing.

Nasty. Just nasty!
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marylanddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 11:30 AM
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3. Oh my God - Alistair "Masterpiece Theatre" Cooke sold for

body parts? That truly is bizarre.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 11:33 AM
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5. Say what you want the man was the picture of old school English Class


I hope his family finds some peace.
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 11:34 AM
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6. I was a huge "Upstairs, Downstairs" fan...
Edited on Thu Dec-22-05 11:34 AM by npincus
and "Last of The Mohicans" was wonderful.

Poor Alistair. Bad karma will befall the thieves of his bones.
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 11:34 AM
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7. Have they checked Michael Jackson's house? n/t
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 11:37 AM
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9. His daughter is worried in case bone cancer sufferers got them
in hideous transplant fiasco...:

And, as the cause of his death was at least partially bone cancer, she was equally appalled that patients in need of healthy transplant pieces could have received these diseased bones.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4552742.stm
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 11:35 AM
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8. So who did they cook in the Crem. if not Cooke?
?
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 11:46 AM
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10. I'm not completely clear on this...
why HIS bones? I mean, is the funeral home and all involved under investigation for having been in this horrific business for some time? :shrug:
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 11:48 AM
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11. Maybe to DNA test and prove he was a plant?
Or just kinky fun with a stewpot.
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cloud_chaser1 Donating Member (248 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 11:53 AM
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12. I dont buy the story
What on God's Green Earth are you going to do with body pasrts from a 95 year old man. The heart is not suitable for transplant, Alistair Cooke wore glasses so his corneas were not in A-1 condition. and the rest of the transplantable organs are simply too old.

Most transplant surgeons look for organ from young people, children up to late 30s because those organs are still in good condition and will last for a long time. A 95 year old heart probably would not survive the initial surgery. I think you are dealing with a new urban myth. I have launched a search about it.
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cloud_chaser1 Donating Member (248 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 12:00 PM
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14. I found two stories on the web about this.
One is from the New York Daily News....a tabloid newspaper. Real trash.
The other quotes the Cooke Family in a British newspaper saying the family is outraghed at the story. Not the theft but the story of the theft. Thats what makes me think it is baloney.
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dusmcj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 11:59 AM
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13. wonder who they were Connected to who got them to do it. nt
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 01:57 PM
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18. GROSSSSSSSSSSS sick bastards.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10574333/ here's the MSNBC link. barf, this is so wrong of them. what causes the brain to say, "sure, we can make a few bucks, cut him up"


http://www.cafepress.com/dontspyonme :hi:
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