Mariana van Zeller

And they were caught, but they were actually not charged for chopping up bodies.

They were charged for fraud because it is very complicated and there aren't enough laws in this country that regulate what happens to your body after you die.

Yeah.

And they had no idea that that was going to happen.

But they had donated her body for science.

Right.

It is.

And, you know, having surgeons operate on your hip, practicing with a hip.

Yeah.

All of that is science.

But that's better, I think, because at least you're aware that you donated the body.

In these cases, they thought they'd received ashes that contained their loved ones.

And instead, there was like batteries, burnt batteries and other bodies mixed in.

People would go.

This is such a crazy story.

People would go into this funeral home.

And as they're signing the paperwork for the cremation, they would hear a chainsaw in the back.

For real.

And it was the mother whose job it was to cut up the body parts.

Exactly, and complained, and they would say that they were building something in the back, but this lasted like months or years, and they're constantly building something in the back.