Hopkinsville Woman Receives Misdelivered Human Body Parts

Late in October, a Hopkinsville, Kentucky, woman expecting time-sensitive medication opened a delivered box and found two human arms and four fingers packed on ice. She called 911 and Christian County Coroner Scott Daniel collected the cadaver parts and took them to the local morgue. Officials said the remains, from four different donors, were intended for surgical training at a Nashville school or hospital but were mistakenly delivered to the wrong address in a courier mix-up. A courier retrieved the parts the following morning and the homeowner received her expected medication a day later. Daniel declined to identify the courier or homeowner, said he assumed the parts came from donated cadavers, and officials advised anyone who encounters similar shipments to contact 911 or nonemergency dispatch rather than handle the remains themselves.