Ex-mortuary worker from Arkansas sentenced to prison for 15 years after selling body parts to man she met on Facebook

According to a press release from the US DOJ in the Eastern District of Arkansas, Candace Chapman Scott, 37, of Little Rock has been sentenced to "serve a total of 15 years in federal prison for transporting stolen human body parts—including fetuses—out of Arkansas and conspiracy to commit mail fraud."

Authorities found that while she worked at a mortuary between the years of 2021 and 2002, Scott stole human and fetal remains to sell online to Jeremy Pauley, who was based out of Pennsylvania. Scott was accused of selling 20 boxes of body parts to Pauley whom she met over a Facebook group called "oddities."

"The remains included a skull, multiple brains, an arm, an ear, multiple lungs, multiple hearts, multiple breasts, a belly button, testicles, and other parts. During a search warrant executed at Scott’s Little Rock home, investigators found numerous stolen body parts that she admitted she transported in trash bags from her work," the DOJ said in the press release.

Scott was given over $10,000 in exchange for the body parts and was indicted on April 5, 2023, and later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and interstate transportation of stolen property on April 25, 2024.

“Just out of curiosity, would you know anyone in the market for a fully in tact, embalmed brain?” Scott said to Pauley over the internet, according to the New York Post. In another message from December 2021, Scott offered Pauley “2 brains, one with skullcap, 3 hearts one cut, 2 fake boobies, one large belly button piece of skin, [one] arm, one huge piece of skin, and one lung” in exchange for $1,600.