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Hungarian police arrest hospital worker for collecting human body parts
AP News • • world
Key Points:
- Hungarian police arrested a 30-year-old hospital orderly in Budapest for collecting human body parts from abandoned cemeteries and his workplace.
- Investigators found skulls, a lower leg, a hand, a reconstructed human face, and other bones in his apartment, along with a heart in a jar of uncertain origin.
- The man admitted to collecting and even eating human body parts, and police suspect he obtained them by digging up graves in Hungary and Slovakia.
- Authorities seized his electronic devices for further investigation, and forensic experts are examining the body parts to determine their origins and potential additional crimes.
- The suspect is held on suspicion of illegal use of human bodies, with police noting his strong interest in anatomy, pathology, and animal dissection.
