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Stauffertold ABC15he learned of his mother’s fate when a Reuters reporter contacted him with documents showing where her body went after it was donated.
Stauffer is one of more than 30 plaintiffs suingBRC owner, Stephen Gore,who pleaded guilty to conducting an illegal enterprise in 2015.
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The only part of his mother that Stauffer has today is 6 ounces of ashes he says BRC gave back to him.
“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,” Stauffer told ABC. “She will never be forgotten here.”
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Earlier this month, documents from the lawsuit detailing the FBI’s 2014 raid on BRC were made public, revealing gruesome findings.
According to the lawsuit, on one wall, Cwynar claimed to see a woman’s head sewn onto a male torso “like Frankenstein” in what the suit says appeared to be a “morbid joke.”
Stauffer and the plaintiffs allege their relatives’ remains were obtained through “false statements” and that the families believed they would be used for scientific research, the suit alleges.
In 2015, Gore, whose highest education was high school, was sentenced to one year of deferred jail time and four years of probation.
“He didn’t care about the families, he didn’t care about the people and he didn’t care about the memories,” Stauffer said. “If I can be a little small part of his personal financial destruction, I don’t care.”
The lawsuit is set to go to trial on Oct. 21. Attorney information for Gore was not available Wednesday.
source: people.com
