Dan P. Lee

In 2004, 244 corpses supposedly destined for cremation at a Philadelphia funeral home were hacked apart, their organs and tissue sold for transplantation. It’s a gruesome story of betrayal, for both the grieving families and the unwitting recipients of diseased body parts.

He was the most famous ape in America. But to really understand a chimp, you have to know his mother. “In her arms, swaddled and in a diaper, lay tiny Travis—named after her favorite singer, Travis Tritt. Travis was the son of Coco, who’d been snatched from the jungles of equatorial Africa in the early seventies and purchased for $12,000, and an 11-year-old retired zoo chimp named Suzy.”