It’s not quite the exit the “Masterpiece Theater” host and author would have wanted, but when he died of cancer at age 95 in 2004, his body was illegally cut up for resale.
The macabre scheme — described by [Deptford resident Anthony J.] Vitola’s lawyer as a “human chop shop operation” — has left victims on both sides of the grave: People who underwent skin grafts, dental implants or orthopedic surgeries. And dead people, including famed British-born broadcaster Alistair Cooke, carved up and mined for parts without their relatives’ knowledge.
Cooke’s daughter, the Rev. Susan Cooke Kittredge, said this scandal would have sickened her father.
“It would have made his skin crawl,” she said. “This would seem really wrong to him in a way that struck to his core.”
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