Man's horror as mother's body he donated to Alzheimer's research was used for bomb testing

A man sued a company after discovering his mother's body was used for military bomb testing. Jim Stauffer, from , initially donated her body for research but was shocked when he found out this didn't happen.

His mother, Doris, passed away in 2014 after living with Alzheimer's. Mr Stauffer then donated her body to the Biological Resource Center (BRC) for research purposes looking into the disease. According to , around 20,000 people in the US donate their bodies for research and education every year but families are often misled.

FBI Special Agent Paul Micah Johnson, who has investigated the subject for around a decade, said: "Medical research and education, particularly education, is a vague term and it is not clearly defined even in the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. The misleading of families across the industry is quite common."

An investigation from Reuters found that over 20 bodies donated to BRC were instead used for US army blast experiments. They sold bodies, like Doris', for $5,893 each - £4450.72.

Stephen Gore, the owner of BRC, which is no longer an operational business, pleaded guilty to illegal control of an enterprise. He was sentenced to one year of differed jail time and a period of four years probation.

Mr Stauffer said: "I don't see a pathway of ever getting past this. Every time there's a memory, every time there's a photograph you look at, there's this ugly thing that happened just right there staring right at you.

"Stephen Gore didn't care about the families, he didn't care about the people and he didn't care about the memories. If I can be a little small part of his personal financial destruction, I don't care."