Dentist goes to prison for stealing body parts

Michael Mastromarino, the former New Jersey dentist who pleaded guilty to stealing body parts from more than 1,000 corpses, will spend 18-54 years in a New York prison, according to a New York Times report.

Mastromarino was the leader of a $4.6 million operation in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania that stole bones, skin, and tendons from funeral homes and sold them to doctors for transplants. Some patients underwent periodontal surgery using tissue and bone implants from the cadavers.

One of the corpses was that of famous British journalist Alistair Cooke.