Crime & Safety
FBI Agent Describes Warehouse Of Horrors In Body Parts Trial
Grosse Pointe Park Man Accused Of Renting Out Tainted Organs.

FBI Special Agent Leslie Larsen described a scene straight out of the Saw franchise while testifying against Grosse Pointe Park body parts dealer Arthur Rathbun Friday. Larsen told jurors about finding human heads in Tupperware and Rubbermaid tubs and in 55-gallon drums. Larsen said she also saw piles of dead insects, dried blood and an array of macabre instruments allegedly used by Rathbun in dismembering specimens: chainsaws, circular saws, even a bandsaw.
Rathbun, 64, was arrested in October 2016, nearly four years after one of the specimens he rented for a medical presentation was intercepted by government investigators. The FBI raided Rathbun’s warehouse in 2013, where Larsen says many bodies and parts of bodies had frozen into one mass that had to be broken up with crowbars.
Testimony in the trial continues tomorrow. Elizabeth Rathbun, the defendant’s ex-wife and his partner in the human specimens business, is expected to be the prosecution’s star witness. Elizabeth Rathbun pleaded guilty to a single count of wire fraud in 2016.
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