A Fixture in the Online Oddities Trade

[That look was probably an asset in business, but a liability when standing before a jury.]
A couple years back, several people were arrested in connection with the sale of human body parts taken from the morgue at Harvard Medical School. Recently, sentences have been handed down. Among those headed for prison is Jeremy Pauley.

He’s known in the community for binding books in human skin and preserving fetal remains. Pauley admitted to buying fetuses, skin, hearts and brains from a mortuary worker in Arkansas and purchasing skin and organs sourced secondhand from Harvard Medical School.

Though the metaphor cautions us not to judge books by their covers, those covers often provide a very helpful shorthand. So it is with Pauley, pictured here:

No offense to any face-tattooed, skull dermal-having, black sclera contact wearers amongst my readers, but that looks like exactly who I’d expect to traffic in stolen human body parts.

Link: https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/12/22/harvard-medical-morgue-jeremy-pauley-sentenced-human-remains