On June 18, 2008, Christopher Aldorasi was sentenced to nine to 27 years in prison for his involvement in a body parts snatching scheme masterminded by oral surgeon Michael Mastromarino.
Gruesome Scheme
Operating out of a Brooklyn funeral home, Aldorasi was one of the so-called "cutters," who removed body parts from corpses. In many cases, the body parts were removed without permission from the deceased or their family and some were diseased or in advanced stages or deterioration. The stolen body parts were then sold to biomedical companies for use in transplants.
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Aldorasi was 36 years old at the time of his sentence
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Convicted of 20 charges including enterprise corruption, grand larceny and reckless endangermentEmpire State News: Human tissue conspiracy case results in prison term (June 19, 2008)
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More than 1,000 body parts stolen from corpses
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The body of Masterpiece Theatre host Alistair Cooke was one of those looted
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Co-conspirator Lee Cruceta testified against Aldorasi
