A year had passed since Doneysha Smith suffered a stillbirth and the memories of her loss lingered in 2023. The cremated remains of her child were kept in a tiny urn in her house and on a necklace she wore, and a memorial service had marked her family's loss with mourners releasing blue, white and yellow balloons into the sky.
But the FBI had reached out to the Arkansas woman with shocking news: The urn and necklace didn't contain her child's ashes and the body had been sold as part of a multistate scheme that bought and sold human remains.
