Harold Dillard was diagnosed with aggressive abdominal cancer in November 2009 and was placed in end-of-life hospice care. A company called Bio Care asked to take his body for medical training, promising cremation of unused parts and to return ashes free. Mr Dillard's body was removed after his death, and months later police found his head. At a warehouse investigators found more than 100 body parts belonging to 45 people. A detective wrote that all bodies appeared to have been dismembered by a coarse cutting instrument such as a chainsaw. Families experienced trauma, and the company denied mistreatment.
Harold Dillard was 56 when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer around his abdomen in November 2009. Within weeks the former car mechanic and handyman - a Texan "Mr Fix It" type who wore a cowboy hat and jeans nearly every day - was in end-of-life hospice care. In his final days, Mr Dillard was visited at the hospice by a company called Bio Care.
Mr Dillard died on Christmas Eve, and within hours, a car from Bio Care pulled up outside the hospice and drove his body away. A few months later, his daughter received a call from the police. They had found her father's head. At the company's warehouse, police say they found more than 100 body parts belonging to 45 people. "All of the bodies appeared to have been dismembered by a coarse cutting instrument, such as a chainsaw," a detective wrote at the time.
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