TN TN - MCEWEN, human heart found in salt pile - adult male - 16 Dec 2022

[airportwoman]

Yes, not relevant with a heart imo, but I was told many years ago by a doctor with amputations that they will save body parts for a burial of a whole body when someone eventually passes away, I was told Jewish faith requires it. Jme.

The following links are not for the squeamish.

What It's Like to Hold Your Own Heart

Baylor University Medical Center in Texas is encouraging transplant patients to meet their former organs.

www.atlasobscura.com

And a picture of one of the first transplantees, looking at his own heart. Sadly, he died just a few weeks after the picture was taken.

LIFE - Hosted by Google

 

[Laura456]

The following links are not for the squeamish.

What It's Like to Hold Your Own Heart

Baylor University Medical Center in Texas is encouraging transplant patients to meet their former organs.

www.atlasobscura.com

And a picture of one of the first transplantees, looking at his own heart. Sadly, he died just a few weeks after the picture was taken.

LIFE - Hosted by Google

Such a neat photo!

 

[DS2021]

Bumping. Has there been any updates on this?

 

[sunshineray]

This is the only 2023 (Updated Jan and May 2023) article I'm coming up with. Very little new info.

UPDATE: Human heart discovered in TDOT salt pile investigation continues

As TDOT workers were retrieving salt from their barn on Thursday, they discovered what they believed to be a weirdly shaped rock.

www.local3news.com

 

[Helechawagirl]

This is a strange one.

 

[wendybtn]

This is a strange one.

I live in Tennessee and there is very little to no information that's new about this.

 

[Knox]

Ha, I had forgotten about this, still nothing on who or how?!!

 

[Helechawagirl]

Ha, I had forgotten about this, still nothing on who or how?!!

Wonder if it’s a med school prank or something? Very odd.

 

[airportwoman]

There was a story from my area a couple years ago where someone thought they found a human femur at a landfill.

The ME knew immediately that it was a medical replica.

However, this thing wasn't.

 

[sasha17]

This could be an interesting case for @othram.

 

[charminglane]

This could be an interesting case for @othram.

Thanks for bumping this up.
One of my "fave" mysteries of all time here.

 

[airportwoman]

This could be an interesting case for @othram.

I hadn't even thought of this. Good idea.

A while back, my mother told me about a human heart being found in a cargo hold in a passenger plane at the local airport, and I assumed the package had somehow been opened and it had fallen out. Nope, it was being used for research and someone forgot to unload it. (D'oh!) Organs for transplant are delivered via a chartered plane, if time and distance demands that they be flown.

 

[charminglane]

I hadn't even thought of this. Good idea.

A while back, my mother told me about a human heart being found in a cargo hold in a passenger plane at the local airport, and I assumed the package had somehow been opened and it had fallen out. Nope, it was being used for research and someone forgot to unload it. (D'oh!) Organs for transplant are delivered via a chartered plane, if time and distance demands that they be flown.

I just pictured a heart with its seat belt on in the window seat.

 

[sunshineray]

This story was on the news recently. I've linked three different articles. There may be some redundancy in them but each has some different info too. Just makes you wonder if one state prison is doing autopsies and keeping organs to give to a university etc?, maybe other states could be doing the same? I just thought it was interesting and maybe apropos. Still extremely odd and improbably that it would then wind up in a salt pile.

He died in prison. His corpse was returned without a heart. Now his family is suing.

Brandon Dotson's family want to know how he died and why his heart was missing from his body when it was released to them.

www.usatoday.com

Heart, brain missing from dead inmates' bodies, family lawsuit claims

Two men who died in Alabama prisons were returned to their families missing organs — one a heart and one a brain, according to a federal lawsuit.

www.lex18.com

Alabama prisoners' bodies returned to families with hearts, other organs missing, lawsuit claims

The family of one Alabama prisoner says his body had no heart and another inmate's family alleges his body had no internal organs at all. A lawyer for the first family calls the cases "absolutely part of a pattern."

www.cbsnews.com

 

[IceIce9]

Semiprecious stone shaped like human heart found on the Oregon Coast

A translucent, 2-pound rock the shape, color and size of an anatomical human heart was recently found on the Oregon Coast.

fox59.com

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A translucent, 2-pound rock the shape, color, and size of an anatomical human heart was recently found on the Oregon Coast.

 

[airportwoman]

That's just a plain old cool rock.

 

[DS2021]

Checking in

 

[Bethan]

Surely they know more about this than we’ve heard!!??

 

[Friday Fan]

About 10 years ago, there was child's skull found in a backpack near I-10. At least it was reported as "being near I-10". Everyone thought it was an I-10 serial killer.

However, the address was about three miles from I-10.

Upon further inspection, this was a site of ongoing home remodeling/construction/pool construction on top of a sharecropper cemetery full of unmarked, shallow graves.

After several years of drama, the NAMUS entry (which had no LE contact info) was finally removed.

The only info about the event consisted of a local press release when the skull was found, and the questionable NAMUS entry.

There was no further follow up in the media, there wasn't any local concern. I think authorities knew that whoever found the skull put it in a backpack or there were grave robbers involved.


Was this heart embalmed?