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The 15-page indictment doesn't go into extended detail about what the body parts were purchased for, but it does mention that Maclean allegedly shipped human skin to a man in Pennsylvania "and engaged in his services to tan the skin to create leather."While Associated Press claims:
The buyer is not identified in the federal indictment, but separate state charges in Pennsylvania name him as Jeremy Lee Pauley, of Enola, Pennsylvania.For more on Pauley see here. The Inquirer reported on March 6th 2024 that Pauley was sentenced to probation "in a related state case for illegally possessing human flesh in his self-described "oddities" collection but Pauley still faces sentencing in a related federal case:
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The indictment alleges Scott approached Pauley in October 2021 and began offering to sell him remains from the medical school that the mortuary was supposed to cremate and return.
"Just out of curiosity, would you know anyone in the market for a fully in tact, embalmed brain?" the indictment alleges Scott wrote to Pauley in her first Facebook message.
The indictment alleges that over the next nine months, Scott sold Pauley fetuses, brains, hearts, lungs, genitalia, large pieces of skin and other body parts. At one point, the indictment alleges Scott sold the remains of a fetus at a discount, writing "he's not in great shape."
Pauley still faces sentencing in a related federal case, in which he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property for trafficking of human body parts. Six others had been charged in that case.
The Inquirer reported last year how Pauley built an oddities business in Enola and how authorities shut it down.
Pauley was a well-known figure in the oddities world, part of a decentralized community whose members are interested in antiquities, quack medicine, the paranormal, natural history, and taxidermy. Aficionados buy and sell objects of interest at flea markets, oddities shops, and global Facebook groups. Many of the dealings are in strange — but benign — goods.
Comment: Driving the point home, The Daily Caller reports: