Alistair Cooke's Bones Stolen
Alistair Cooke's Bones Stolen
#0Alistair Cooke's Bones Stolen
Posted: 12/22/05 at 7:59pm
Alistair Cooke's Bones Stolen, Newspapers Say
NEW YORK (Dec. 22) - The bones of the late British broadcaster Alistair Cooke were stolen by a crime ring that snatched body parts to sell for transplant procedures, according to reports in two New York newspapers Thursday.
Citing sources close to an investigation by the Brooklyn district attorney's office, the Daily News said Cooke 's bones were snatched before his cremation and sold for more than $7,000 to two tissue processing companies.
It quoted Cooke's daughter, Susan, as saying she had learned of the theft last week and was shocked and saddened by it.
A spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney's office would not comment on the report. A similar story ran in the New York Post.
Cooke, the long time host of the U.S. public television show "Masterpiece Theatre," and known for his Letter from America broadcasts for the BBC, died in New York in March 2004 from lung cancer. He was 95.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#1re: Alistair Cooke's Bones Stolen
Posted: 12/22/05 at 8:50pmWhat the hell is a tissue processing company?
#2re: Alistair Cooke's Bones Stolen
Posted: 12/22/05 at 11:02pm
This is disturbing and rather disgusting. I also want to know what they use the tissues for. He died of lung cancer, so I will assume here that the tissues are not all that healthy. If he had radiation or chemotherapy, the tissues would be unhealthy as well, right?
I am suddenly flooded with images of that Marlon Brando scientist, working in his lab on that faraway island...
#3re: Alistair Cooke's Bones Stolen
Posted: 12/22/05 at 11:03pm
Dr. Moreau!! That movie scared the living crap out of me.
ewwwwwwww.
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#4re: Alistair Cooke's Bones Stolen
Posted: 12/22/05 at 11:25pmHe was 95. How healthy could his body tissue have been anyway?
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mamie4 5/14/03
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#5re: Alistair Cooke's Bones Stolen
Posted: 12/22/05 at 11:36pmCLONING!! AN ARMY OF COOKES WILL BE RELEASED ON THE WORLD EXPLAINING EVERYTHING THAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN!! bwAH HA HA!
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#6re: Alistair Cooke's Bones Stolen
Posted: 12/22/05 at 11:39pm
That's FANTASTIC!!!! Finally - a sure fire cure for my insomnia! (I could just cry...)
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mamie4 5/14/03
#7re: Alistair Cooke's Bones Stolen
Posted: 12/22/05 at 11:58pm
ah yes...Dr Moreau. I also had visions of that crazy scientist from South park with the four-assed monkeys patiently waiting for his Alistar Cooke tissues. Nasty.
Mamie, you, too, suffer from insomnia? It can actually help during the holiday season...I managed to handmake 20 Christmas cards between the hours of 1 and 3am a couple of nights ago. And last night, I made 4 pairs of earrings after 2am. And...they look nice!
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#8re: Alistair Cooke's Bones Stolen
Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:02am
I've finally set aside the crocheting and I'm now making a large gemstone tree. I've been working late, twisting wires into the convoluted shapes of tree branches. My poor hands are bleeding from a hundred pokes and scratches.
I've got to come up with a safer way of killing time. Did you suffer any body damage from the card making? 
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mamie4 5/14/03
#9re: Alistair Cooke's Bones Stolen
Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:04amWell, god knows how much glitter I inhaled while applying it to my very simply designed Christmas trees on the card covers. The glue on my fingertips was hard to wash off, though...
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