KY - James Nott, FBI search warrant connected to nationwide stolen body parts scheme decorated home with human remains, Mt. Washington, Jun ‘23

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A Kentucky man connected to a nationwide stolen body parts scheme decorated his home with human remains, according to a federal indictment obtained by Court TV.

FBI agents made the discovery in James Nott’s Mt. Washington apartment on July 11 while executing a search warrant for unlawful possession of firearms and weapons.

When asked if anyone else was inside the home during the search, Nott allegedly replied, “Only my dead friends.”

Inside Nott’s apartment, authorities found “approximately 40 human skulls, spinal cords, femurs, and hip bones.” An indictment states the skulls were displayed as decorations, and a Harvard Medical School bag was also discovered.

Federal investigators zeroed in on Nott during their investigation of Jeremy Pauley, a Pennsylvania man accused of buying and selling stolen human remains. Pauley allegedly bought the remains from Candace Chapman, who stole them from a Little Rock mortuary where she worked.

Federal investigators zeroed in on Nott during their investigation of Jeremy Pauley, a Pennsylvania man accused of buying and selling stolen human remains. Pauley allegedly bought the remains from Candace Chapman, who stole them from a Little Rock mortuary where she worked.

Cedric Lodge, a former manager at the Harvard Medical school morgue, was also implicated in the network of stolen body parts. In June, Lodge, his wife and three others were indicted in the nationwide scheme, the Associated Press reported.

Federal investigators say Nott purchased human remains from Pauley in 2022. An indictment also claims Nott posted “human remains for sale on Facebook as recently as June 2023.”
 
This is related to a case that I posted in Bizarre and Off-Beat last year.
It had to do with the Little Rock Mortuary, Candace Chapman and Jeremy Pauley

What's next: "Coming to a big box decorating store near you?" (Just kidding) :D


 
FBI agents investigating the sale of body parts from the Harvard Medical School went to William Nott's Mt. Washington, KY apartment to look for human remains, but arrested him because of all the guns, gun parts and ammunition they also found - which they say Nott wasn't supposed to have since he'd already been convicted for assembling a collection of parts to make pipe bombs, court documents say.

It's the latest twist in the saga of how parts from bodies donated to Harvard wound up across the country, sold to collectors with a passion for dead people's parts.

According to an affidavit by an FBI agent, investigators turned their attention to Nott while investigating Jeremy Pauley of Enola, PA, whom they had identified as a key player in a ring that involved Harvard Medical School mortuary director Cedric Lodge. Both Pauley and Lodge were arrested last month along with the owner of a creepy-stuff store in Peabody and others.

After East Pennsboro Township Police Department raided Pauley's house in June, 2022, - finding, among other items, human skin - the FBI got a warrant for his Facebook account and found messages from "William Burke." Burke was an Edinburgh man who, with a friend who owned a lodging house, murdered as many as 16 of its residents to sell their bodies to a doctor who needed them for his anatomy lessons, at a time when Scottish law limited whose bodies could be diverted from graves.
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It turned out that Nott was selling parts himself to Pauley, and the FBI was able to use Nott's e-mail address - which included his real name - by subpoenaing records from Paypal, which Pauley was using to pay him, according to the affidavit - which features a photo of a skull and some other human bone Nott put up for sale.

On July 11 of this year, local police and the FBI, armed with a search warrant, entered Nott's apartment in a low-rise apartment complex.

Upon arrival to execute the lawful search, an FBI agent asked NOTT if anyone else was inside the residence. NOTT responded, "only my dead friends."
The affidavit continues:

In the course of the lawful search of the Residence, FBI agents located human remains including approximately 40 human skulls, spinal cords, femurs, and hip bones. The skulls were decorated around the furniture. One skull had a head scarf around it. One skull was located on the mattress where NOTT slept. A Harvard Medical School bag was found inside the Residence
Since news of the parts sales broke, families of several people who had willed their bodies to Harvard have sued.
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Bullitt County man who had skulls and other human remains in his home was sentenced to prison for nearly three years on gun charges.

James Nott of Mt. Washington pleaded guilty in November to illegally having a gun. On Monday, Nott was sentenced by a federal judge to 33 months in prison and another three years on probation.
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Nott was not charged charged for the human remains in his home that were mostly used as decorations.
Mt. Washington man found with human skulls sentenced to almost 3 years in prison on gun charges
 

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