The art of organ stealing the bodies of famous people

Organ theft is not just a hit man for trafficking victims. But it turns out long before that, many famous people who were stolen organs for later collection. Stolen their organs after death. Who are they?

Here are 7 famous people whose organs were stolen as reported by TIME:

Santa Nicholas Bone
When the Middle Ages, the body parts of saints attracted pilgrims from the Christian world because of his conviction to show miracles. Well, relics of ancient aka body parts of famous people that possessed only a few areas that could make cash cow, the other regions were jealous and paying gangs of thieves to steal the relic.

Well-known case is the theft of body parts Santa Nicholas, who modeled a custom of Santa Claus. Santa Nicholas mentioned Framework emits a fragrant odor, and it is considered very valuable.

In 1087, Bari, one of the Italian city hiring, another version says pirates to steal bones that Santa Nicholas of Myra, a city in Turkey. Well, stealing Santa's bones still celebrated in Bari with the annual celebration with parades and fireworks.

Geronimo bones
Hero of Apache Indians as well as the most feared enemy the United States and Mexico at the time, Geronimo, always escape from the pursuit of the enemy that invaded land occupied by his tribe for 30 years before being arrested in 1886. Geronimo died of pneumonia in exile since 1909.

After the fall of even, Geronimo as not allowed to rest in peace. In 1909, six members of Yale's secret society Skull and Bones, including Prescott Bush, the grandfather of U.S. President George W. Bush-46, the grave is located in the complex Geronimo funeral Indians Apache POWs at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Well, in 2006 researchers from New Haven, Marc Wortman discovered a letter from one member of Skull and Bones, Winter Mead to the other members Trubee Davison F, which reads thus:

"The Terrible Geronimo Framework valuable, have been excavated from his tomb at Fort Sill by your club .. now safe inside the tomb and bone together with his thigh bone, bridle and saddle horn."

The word 'tomb' is the second in that sentence is the headquarters suspected secret organization comprised of red brick located in New Haven. F Trubee Davison is a former CIA Personnel Director and President of the American Natural History.

The descendants of Geronimo to send a letter to President George W. Bush, asking for help to the bones of Geronimo returned to his place.

Even in 2009, a descendant of Geronimo assisted by a lawyer who is also a former official at the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice, Ramsey Clark sue the parties responsible, including U.S. President Barack Obama, to restore the bones of Geronimo. But unfortunately, the lawsuit because the Fort Sill mental state emphatically that story a hoax aka lie.

"There is no evidence to indicate the bones of Geronimo scattered but in the grave," said the head of the funeral Jeff Houser, as reported by the New York Times.

Heart Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII divorced his first wife, he married a woman more intelligent and modern, Anne Boleyn. Because never blessed with a boy, Henry was frustrated and thought her marriage to Boleyn. Boleyn only gives Henry a daughter and a miscarriage commute.

The King then accused Boleyn affair with the ordinary people, including the brother Henry himself. Boleyn was soon arrested and beheaded at the Tower of London in 1536. Then the king asked Boleyn heart is taken.

Henry then save heart Boleyn in a heart-shaped box, which was placed in a niche in secret church in Suffolk. The heart was then rediscovered 300 years later, the alias in 1836 and reburied in the church.

Brain Benito Mussolini
In 1966, 21 years after Benito Mussolini was executed, the United States (U.S.) gives the brain Mussolini to his widow, Rachele Mussolini. In a note Rachele, he wrote to his horror that he had found the U.S. had 'taken half a brain "and explained that the U.S. should find out' what makes someone a dictator '.

Family surprised when the U.S. took part of his brain, not just as an object of research, but also a terrible trophy. 43 Years later, the grandson of Mussolini, Mussolini's Alesandra sit in the European parliament, told police that someone selling glass bottles in which Mussolini's brain and blood left on e-Bay at a price of 15 euros. e-Bay and then immediately delete this sales list.

The body of Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine, accomplished debater in history, hero of the U.S. and the French Revolution and the first to write a 'United States of America', died in a drunken and poor in Manhattan.

Only six people attended his funeral were subsequently embodied in the poetry Berrima:

Poor Tom Paine! There he lies / Unfortunately Tom Paine! There he lies Nobody laughs and nobody cries / No one laughs and no one to cry Where he has gone or how he fares / Where he went and how Nobody knows and nobody cares / Nobody knows and nobody cares.

Even after death, Paine can not 'rest'. 10 years later, a journalist and admirer of Paine, William Cobbet, digging his grave and took his body and then shipped to the UK. Cobbet hope he can build a tomb worthy of Paine.

Cobbet never have any money, so the body stays in the attic Paine Cobbet. Until Cobbet death, Paine's body disappeared. Some say it's a knob bones. In 1930, a woman claimed to have a jaw bone Brighton Paine. Unfortunately Tom Paine!

Penis Napoleon Bonaparte
The doctor who did the autopsy on Napoleon in 1821 allegedly cut off his penis and gave it to the pastor on the island of Corsica. Penis, which should not deserve to preserved, a comparison has been made over the years with a piece of leather, eel and beef jerky.

In 1927 when the penis is on display in Manhattan, New York, TIME watch. In 1977, a New Jersey urologist bought it for U.S. $ 3 thousand and store it under the bed until he died 30 years later.

The daughter of the urologists inherited Napoleon's penis and offered approximately U.S. $ 100 thousand alias of Rp 1 billion.

Feet soles Francis Xavier
In the 16th century, Santa Francis Xavier spent a lot of time on foot, Christianity spread to Italy, France, Spain, Malaysia, Japan, Sri Lanka and India. Saint Francis Xavier died at sea on his way to China.
When a group of Christians to dig his grave a few months later, they were surprised that his body was still intact. In the body of the human body exhibit in Goa, India, a Portuguese national woman biting a big leg that Francis Xavier.
Unexpectedly, blood spurting from the leg. She was later arrested when residents followed a trail of blood that spilled down to his house.

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