» Cadaver-gate Not Quite Done, Yet! (D&C.com Sucks)

by Thomas J. Belknap October 18, 2006, 9:52 pm Cadaver-gate Not Quite Done, Yet! (D&C.com Sucks)

If you thought that this story would eventually go away, I’ve got a ticket for a Fast Ferry ride you can buy:

Hilton funeral home named in cadaver pillaging || Democrat & Chronicle: Local News

No one from the funeral home was charged in the indictment. Monroe County District Attorney Michael Green, who attended a news conference in Brooklyn this morning, said in a telephone interview that his office was investigating Burger and other local funeral homes that worked with Biomedical. “It’s an ongoing investigation,” Green said. “We’ve talked to over 40 families.”

Let me also point out my contempt for the D&C’s crappy, whack-ass web design before I go any farther into this story. I’ve pissed lines in the snow with better web-savvy than this page can muster. They’ve got an RSS feed that I presume is being hand-written every month or so by a person with only two thumbs. Why bother even offering an RSS feed if you’re not going to bother tying it to your database so that the latest news can be gotten from said feed? And would it kill you to include the title of a given article in the <head> section so it shows up at the top? Some of us use Performancing and would like to not have to rewrite our links every time we link to your crummy page. Jack-offs.

But Ok, enough griping, and on to grafting.

So, the story has been somewhat under the radar for the last few months, but thank goodness Rochester gets mentioned once again on CNN. You remember Rochester, don’t you, kids? That’s the place where Arthur Shawcross killed all those hookers, and where they steal body parts to send to New York City. It’s cold up there. Sigh.

Basically, seven funeral homes have plead guilty to knowingly colluding in the body-snatcher’s scheme, but while a Greece funeral home was named in released documents, they have not been charged with wrongdoing. Not yet, anyway, but when the DA says it’s an “ongoing investigation,” that doesn’t mean that it’s over by a long shot.

Meanwhile, I decided to do a bit of digging on this Vickers guy from Honeoye to see what he’s been up to with the case. You’ll remember his Dickensian name from my original article on the subject. Well, it turns out that one of the funeral homes indicted in this case was in Philadelphia, PA, and that this Vickers guy who claims such innocence actually went out there to do more cutting. Check out this little human-interest story on the guy. Lovely. Is he “Positively Rochester?” I wonder.

But in all of this, President George Bush had some uplifting words for the victims of these crimes. He said that, while he understood the pain that so many are feeling, while he understood that Rochesterians are a bit embarrassed to be caught up in this madness, there was hope yet. He said that when we look back on this day in our history, it will seem like only a colon. . .

Er, wait. . . .

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