Three severed human heads were left next to a Chicago man’s desk after he complained that some of the donated bodies to the body part distribution center where he works were not properly embalmed or stored.
The man says he also found burnt sage in the office and believes someone is sending him a nasty message.
Outraged by the alleged harassment, the employee reported the incident to the police and began considering filing a lawsuit.
On Wednesday, May 24, Dale Wheatley, whose official title is transportation coordinator, reported that the body part donations were sitting on a blue plastic storage tub by his desk, blasting his co-workers for what he believes was a poorly executed payback for an earlier complaint to higher-ups in the organization, according to People.
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He filed a complaint about the conditions of the donations just the day before the incident.
Wheatley, 37, works for the Anatomical Gift Association of Illinois. This organization has shipped body parts to hospitals, funeral homes, and other medical institutions, including at least eight medical schools in the state, for almost half a century.
According to the website, the AGA “procures, prepares and preserves donations for medical and scientific study,” securing the donation of “an individual’s body after death.”
He believes certain personnel within AGA are neglecting the bodies. The sloppily kept inventory caused many of the cadavers to rot, grow mold, and in a few cases allowed rats to chew through the flesh of the bodies.
As a result, some of their clients send the donations back, he said in an interview with Fox 32.
Wheatley also complained about the heads by his desk.
“At first I was confused. My boss walked by, and I asked him why the heads were at my desk,” he said in an…
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