A mortuary owner distributes dead bodies across the city

A US court has sentenced 61-year-old mortuary owner Walter Mitchell to more than six years in prison for negligent posting of severed human heads scattered across the city, and the man in charge of a company that would donate corpses for scientific research instead dumped them across the city.

The mortuary in Seattle, USA, was supposed to donate parts and parts of dead people to scientific research centers, but instead, the owner dumped the bodies scattered around the city for no apparent reason.

A court jury found Walter guilty of 29 felony counts of concealing or giving away bodies, for which Walter said he bears "responsibility."

Walter commented at the sentencing: "I take responsibility for what I did. Whatever the court sees fit, I live or die. I'm sorry."

His apology came before Judge Krista Karman sentenced the man to two and a half years in prison for a total of 24 counts and a concurrent but consecutive period of three years and nine months for the other five counts.

Walter was sentenced to six years and a quarter of years behind bars.

Prosecutors said Walter took donated parts from other people with him in his refrigerator when he moved to Arizona, kept them for a set time and then dumped them across town.

The Daily Star reported that he was arrested after selling the freezer, which was filled with human remains that turned out to be mostly women, with 12 separate people whose organs or parts of their bodies, including an arm and leg, were said to have been inside the freezer.

Prosecutors also said that among the finds were several parts of the body, including two severed heads.

The search later led to the recovery of three other heads that were lying in different places in the city.

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