Honey’s body was frozen, cut into pieces and sold for money.
The family of Army veteran Carl Victor Honey is claiming that after he died in 2022, his body was parceled out to various entities for money by the University of North Texas Health Science Center.
According to People, Honey was homeless and had paranoid schizophrenia when he died. Still, his body was deemed unclaimed and became one of 2,350 to be donated to the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth for medical research.
His ex-wife, Kimberly Patman, cast doubt on the assertion that his body was unclaimed, telling NBC News, “His son has his same name. How could he be unclaimed?”
According to NBC News, what happened to Honey is not an isolated incident; 11 additional families have come forward with stories about how the science center sold the parts of deceased loved ones whose bodies were determined to be unclaimed.
Honey’s body was frozen, cut into pieces and sold for money. His right leg was donated to a Swedish medical device company for $341, and a Pittsburgh medical education company paid $900 for his torso.