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Carola Guerrero De León

Murdered Migrant's Body Among Hundreds Used for Lucrative Medical Research, Investigation Shows

Aurimar Iturriago Villegas, 21, was shot in a road rage incident in Texas. Her body was later donated to a university without her family's consent. (Credit: Aurimar's Facebook profile)

The body of a 21-year-old Venezuelan migrant who was fatally shot in a road rage incident in Texas was used by a university for medical training and research despite the victim's family's efforts to repatriate her home for a physical burial, NBC news revealed.

Her case, according to the investigation, was neither an isolated incident nor a mistake. Over 1,000 deceased individuals whose bodies went unclaimed were similarly used for lucrative biotechnology research and training under questionable circumstances, often without the consent of their families.

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