Father Wants Daughter’s Body Back After Giving her Remains to Alleged Black Market Dealers: Report

John Butsch believed that he was following his 26-year-old daughter Alexandria’s last wishes when he donated her body to science 5 years ago. He donated her body to the Biological Resource Center of Illinois in 2014, but just months later the Institute was raided by the FBI and shut down.

Butsch says that he was given some ashes that the FBI claimed were the remains of Alexandria, but he says that is a lie. Why? Because her body was found during the raid and is being held in federal holding in Detroit.

The two men who allegedly ran the Biological Resource Center of Illinois, Donald Greene Sr. and Donald Greene Jr., were federally charged in April, the father with wire fraud and the son with concealing a crime. The father-son duo allegedly knowingly sold body parts infected with diseases including HIV, sepsis and hepatitis from 2008 to 2014. According to the search warrant, families donated their loved ones bodies to them, believing that the cadavers would be used for medical research. Instead, the bodies were kept on ice and sold, sometimes for up to $100,000. Their plea dates have been set for June 2.

See Ann W. Schmidt, Father Wants Daughter’s Body Back After Giving her Remains to Alleged Black Market Dealers: Report, Fox News, April 30, 2019.