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Murder Dictionary

Organ Theft: Michael Mastromarino

Murder Dictionary

Brianna Miera

Comedy, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

On this episode we discuss how the Brooklyn Bodysnatcher Michael Mastromarino had his dentistry license taken away, only to obtain a new license to supply tissue banks. He established a network of funeral homes that would supply him bodies, so he could illegally harvest them & forge paperwork to make the organ donation look legal.  


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MICHAEL MASTROMARINO LINKS:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/nyregion/michael-mastromarino-dentist-guilty-in-organ-scheme-dies-at-49.html
https://nymag.com/news/features/22326/
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/wife-of-body-snatcher-details-how-she-learned-ex-husband-illegally-harvested-sold-body-parts-in-doc-i-had-no-idea 
http://www.oprah.com/relationships/husbands-secret-lives-revealed/all 


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The Hello and welcome back to Murder Dictionary podcast. I'm Brianna and that's Courtney.

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Hello. We're back. We made it. Welcome back. So before we get into the case that we're going to talk about tonight and we get to start a new

0:56.6

letter, we always want to remind you that in the show notes, you will find links to resources

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