There is almost no man who at least once in a lifetime wasn’t robbed. Almost everything is stolen: from money and jewelry to cars, mobile phones and wardrobe. Not many people know that lately a theft of human organs became popular.
Today this business became the trade of secondary goods. Human corpses became a source of fantastic earnings where the biggest profit have pharmacology business and their “large respected” hospitals. It used to be immoral to steal from a dead solider a ring, boots or take his money. Today, these sound ridiculous because from dead and living people organs are stolen. Sometimes the motive for these crimes is not only money. Individuals as a “souvenir” want to own some of body parts of famous people. In some cases that is hair, eyes or penis.
10BENITO MUSSOLINI: BODY PART – BRAIN
The US government took a sample for study and as a trophy. It was returned to his widow 21 years later in 1996.
09ST. NICHOLAS: BODY PART – BONES
Said to exude myrrh, the bones were stolen in 1087 by pirates hired by the Italian town of Bari.
08ANNE BOLEYN: BODY PART – HEART
Henry VIII allegedly had the hearth torn out. He kept it secretly in a heart-shaped casket.
07GALILEO GALILEI: BODY PART – FINGER
The finger was stolen by a fan when Galileo´s body was exhumed. It is now on display in a museum in Florence.
06GERONIMO: BODY PART – SKULL
The skull supposedly pilfered by members of Yale´s Skull and Bones secret society. The allegedly use it during initiation rites.
05JEREMY BENTHAM: BODY PART – HEAD
A had was stolen from University College London by students in 1975. It was held for a ransom, which was partially paid.
04LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: BODY PART – EAR BONES
Ear bones, was taken by a medical orderly following the autopsy. The auditory ossicles have since been lost.
03CHE GUEVARA: BODY PART – HAIR
A 3 inch long lock of hair was snipped by a CIA operative after Guevara was killed. It sold for 100.000 dollars in 2007.
02ALBERT EINSTEIN: BODY PART – EYEBALLS
His eyeballs removed at the autopsy by Einstein´s ophthalmologist. He kept them in a jar on his bedside table.
01NAPOLEON BONAPARTE: BODY PART – PENIS
His penis was cut off during the autopsy by the doctor and smuggled out of St. Helena. An offer of 100.000 dollars was later made for it.
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