Dale Wheatley, who performs deliveries for the Anatomical Gift Association of Illinois, came into work two weeks ago and found sage burning and three severed heads lying on a plastic container by his desk.
Wheatley, who has worked for AGA for nearly five years, said he’s never seen anything like the horror movie-like scene he stumbled upon that Wednesday morning in late May.
Families of deceased donate bodies to the not-for-profit to be used in the training of medical students at eight universities across the state, and mishandling causes the bodies to be unfit for use, Wheatley said at a news conference with an attorney Tuesday afternoon. O’Connor said it is Wheatley’s responsibility to handle the bodies. The organization, formerly known as the Demonstrator’s Society, has been in operation for over a century.
“There are a handful of donors that were recently delivered with feet and hands that show signs of decomposition,” Tilden said in the message to AGA.Wheatley felt the heads were a method of retaliation in response to his concerns, he said. “I’ve never seen a situation where heads were left at somebody’s desk. That is unspeakable,” he said. “Those are people’s family members. They’re not a joke … They gave their body to donate it to science.”
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