{"id":3107,"date":"2007-05-18T10:41:24","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T14:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2007\/05\/18\/zombies-invade-upstate-new-york\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T10:47:09","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T14:47:09","slug":"zombies-invade-upstate-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2007\/05\/18\/zombies-invade-upstate-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombies Invade Upstate New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" hspace=\"6\" height=\"231\" align=\"left\" alt=\"rochesterzombie\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/files\/2007\/05\/zombieropped.jpg\" \/><font size=\"2\">(May 18, 2007) \u2014 More than two years after their grim work began in Rochester, four human-tissue recovery workers and three local funeral directors have been charged with taking bones, skin and other material from corpses without obtaining consent.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">A 179-count indictment unsealed Thursday focused on the cases of 36 people who died in 2005 and whose remains were sent to three Rochester-area funeral homes to be prepared for cremation. Instead, the indictment said, the remains were plundered for valuable tissue while grieving loved ones were kept in the dark.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070518\/NEWS01\/705180344\">Rochester Democrat and Chronicle <\/a>(our first job in media)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><em>What are the authorities keeping from the public? Obviously, there is either a serious zombie attack in upstate New York, or a relative of Dr. Frankenstein has set up shop.  Neither would be that surprising for this hotbed of liberal eccentricity&#8230;&#8230; <\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(May 18, 2007) \u2014 More than two years after their grim work began in Rochester, four human-tissue recovery workers and three local funeral directors have been charged with taking bones, skin and other material from corpses without obtaining consent. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2007\/05\/18\/zombies-invade-upstate-new-york\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[588,576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}