Late broadcaster Alistair Cooke's daughter testified on Monday at the trial of the man accused of stealing and chopping up her father's body.
Chris Aldorasi is charged with being part of a group who dismembered bodies at funeral homes and sold them for transplants and medical testing.
Aldorasi and the group's alleged ringleader Michael Mastromarino stand accused of forging consent forms to obtain the bodies.
Cooke's body was taken by the group after his death in 2004, at the age of 95. His daughter Susan Kittredge told a New York court that her father would never have allowed his body to be cut up and donated, and she didn't sign consent forms, which bore the signature of a fictitious Susan Quint.
Aldorasi claims he was duped by Mastromarino. The case continues.
Cooke was born in Britain, but spent most of his adult life in America. He was most famous in his native U.K. for his Letters From America radio series.
Chris Aldorasi is charged with being part of a group who dismembered bodies at funeral homes and sold them for transplants and medical testing.
Aldorasi and the group's alleged ringleader Michael Mastromarino stand accused of forging consent forms to obtain the bodies.
Cooke's body was taken by the group after his death in 2004, at the age of 95. His daughter Susan Kittredge told a New York court that her father would never have allowed his body to be cut up and donated, and she didn't sign consent forms, which bore the signature of a fictitious Susan Quint.
Aldorasi claims he was duped by Mastromarino. The case continues.
Cooke was born in Britain, but spent most of his adult life in America. He was most famous in his native U.K. for his Letters From America radio series.
- 4/1/2008
- WENN
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