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A Texas lawmaker is moving to ban the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research following our @nbcnews.com investigation www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I would never have entered the Polk Awards in 2019 were it not for Susan Carroll insisting on it and no one was happier than she when I won. I’m so proud of her for this win and of @mikehixenbaugh.com & colleagues’ great work honoring her. I wish she was here to celebrate what she always deserved. 💔

The heartbreaking stories of those who died in the LA wildfires may help us better understand how to prevent more deaths as disasters get more intense - and evacuations become more dire. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Another twist Mississippi’s anti-crime crackdown in Jackson: In August 2022, Mississippi Capitol Police officers fired on a car they were chasing in downtown Jackson - the first of four shootings in the first six months of a new downtown deployment.

Source: Mike Hixenbaugh (@mikehixenbaugh.com), Jon Schuppe (@jonschuppe.bsky.social) and Susan Carroll, The University of North Texas’ body parts business: Cutting up and leasing out the poor, NBC News www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Several witnesses to the epicenter of the Palisades Fire talked to us about what they saw, and the harrowing decisions they had to make while watching their neighborhood, Palisades Highlands, burn. W/ @lewiskamb @colinnbc.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... @nbcnews.com

Catch up with the rest of our months-long investigation here --> www.nbcnews.com/dealing-the-... @jonschuppe.bsky.social @mikehixenbaugh.com

Here’s a portion of our report with @noticiastelemundo.bsky.social about a young woman from Venezuela who was murdered in Dallas and then used for research as her mother desperately sought to have her body returned home. Full story and video here: www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

#FOIA requests pry loose internal emails of biotech firm's handwringing over questions about use of unclaimed corpses for medical research without consent from the dead or their families - a look into the shadowy body-brokering trade, via @tktk.bsky.social @jonschuppe.bsky.social @mikehixenbaugh.com

Here are some of the stories, each one unique and heartbreaking, of families we encountered during our investigation of the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. @mikehixenbaugh.com @tktk.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

NEW: We obtained internal emails from a major biotech company, Boston Scientific, showing how they scrambled to deal with our @nbcnews.com investigation that found they'd used the unclaimed dead for training www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... w/ @mikehixenbaugh.com @jonschuppe.bsky.social

A veteran's corpse was sent across state lines — before his family even knew he was dead. Here's the latest in our @nbcnews.com investigation into how the unclaimed dead become commodities in the U.S. body trade. @jonschuppe.bsky.social @tktk.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

A South Carolina veteran died alone in a hospital — and without anyone telling his family, his corpse was sent out of state to a for-profit body broker. His story demonstrates the peril of an industry with little regulation, NBC News found.

Why would business records of a company that buys and sells bodies show purchases at PetSmart? The explanation involves metal dog food bowls, severed human heads and Botox. Read the latest in our @nbcnews.com series on what happens to the bodies of poor people. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...