WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:44.4890000" NOTE recognizability:0.851 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.002 Now, First off, we want to give NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:02.002 --> 00:00:04.076 a warning that this story deals NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:04.076 --> 00:00:05.604 with some graphic content. NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:05.610 --> 00:00:07.596 Walter Mitchell shut down his body NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:07.596 --> 00:00:09.859 donation business in 2020 here in Seattle. NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:09.860 --> 00:00:12.149 When the pandemic hit, he packed a NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:12.149 --> 00:00:14.437 U-Haul with dry ice and body parts. NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:14.440 --> 00:00:16.444 And it's what happened after he NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:16.444 --> 00:00:18.150 arrived in Arizona that will NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:18.150 --> 00:00:19.670 cost him years in prison. NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:19.670 --> 00:00:20.320 OK, we'll NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:21.672 follow you guys. OK? NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:21.672 --> 00:00:23.362 Outdoorsman found two piles of NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:23.362 --> 00:00:25.310 bagged body parts in the Arizona NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:25.310 --> 00:00:26.855 desert in December of 2020. NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:26.860 --> 00:00:28.231 They called police. NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:28.231 --> 00:00:30.059 Did you touch anything? NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:30.060 --> 00:00:31.795 Medical labels on the bags NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:31.795 --> 00:00:33.183 lead detectives to Mitchell, NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:33.190 --> 00:00:35.242 who was charged with 29 counts NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:35.242 --> 00:00:37.020 of abandoning a dead body, NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:37.020 --> 00:00:39.108 one for each recovered body part. NOTE Confidence: 0.844834 00:00:39.110 --> 00:00:39.460 Specifically NOTE Confidence: 0.82650214 00:00:39.460 --> 00:00:41.889 right leg, no hip of Janice Gator. NOTE Confidence: 0.82650214 00:00:41.890 --> 00:00:43.282 Specifically right arm with NOTE Confidence: 0.82650214 00:00:43.282 --> 00:00:44.674 shoulder of Vivian Crabtree. NOTE Confidence: 0.82650214 00:00:44.680 --> 00:00:45.724 Specifically right leg, NOTE Confidence: 0.82650214 00:00:45.724 --> 00:00:48.160 no hip of unidentified male number one, NOTE Confidence: 0.82650214 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:49.201 specifically left arm, NOTE Confidence: 0.82650214 00:00:49.201 --> 00:00:50.936 no shoulder of Amanda W, NOTE Confidence: 0.82650214 00:00:50.940 --> 00:00:52.680 specifically left foot of Amanda NOTE Confidence: 0.82650214 00:00:52.680 --> 00:00:55.116 W in a Prescott, AZ, courtroom today. NOTE Confidence: 0.82650214 00:00:55.116 --> 00:00:57.662 The father of Amanda W, Who died NOTE Confidence: 0.82650214 00:00:57.662 --> 00:01:00.068 from cancer in Seattle in 2019. NOTE Confidence: 0.82650214 00:01:00.070 --> 00:01:04.180 And she donated her body as one last act for NOTE Confidence: 0.8816676 00:01:04.180 --> 00:01:05.356 humankind. Mr. NOTE Confidence: 0.8816676 00:01:05.356 --> 00:01:08.296 Mitchell took her final wish. NOTE Confidence: 0.8816676 00:01:08.300 --> 00:01:10.868 And threw it out through her NOTE Confidence: 0.8816676 00:01:10.868 --> 00:01:13.080 remains out that were supposed NOTE Confidence: 0.8816676 00:01:13.080 --> 00:01:15.580 to be used for good. Mitchell NOTE Confidence: 0.889632 00:01:15.580 --> 00:01:18.148 spent decades in the largely unregulated NOTE Confidence: 0.889632 00:01:18.148 --> 00:01:19.860 whole body donation industry, NOTE Confidence: 0.889632 00:01:19.860 --> 00:01:21.795 in which brokers accept donated NOTE Confidence: 0.889632 00:01:21.795 --> 00:01:25.229 bodies and sell them for a profit to NOTE Confidence: 0.889632 00:01:25.229 --> 00:01:27.125 medical and scientific institutions. NOTE Confidence: 0.889632 00:01:27.130 --> 00:01:29.536 I believe that his sentence should NOTE Confidence: 0.889632 00:01:29.536 --> 00:01:32.085 be strong enough to deter anybody NOTE Confidence: 0.889632 00:01:32.085 --> 00:01:34.671 in the body donation industry from NOTE Confidence: 0.889632 00:01:34.671 --> 00:01:37.398 trying to follow in his footsteps. NOTE Confidence: 0.8546726 00:01:38.220 --> 00:01:41.058 They requested an 18 year prison NOTE Confidence: 0.8546726 00:01:41.058 --> 00:01:42.950 sentence just before Mitchell NOTE Confidence: 0.8546726 00:01:43.031 --> 00:01:44.936 offered an apology to the NOTE Confidence: 0.8546726 00:01:44.940 --> 00:01:48.906 victims families today family coming up. NOTE Confidence: 0.8546726 00:01:48.910 --> 00:01:53.166 That hurts. That hurt me. And I take NOTE Confidence: 0.8546726 00:01:53.166 --> 00:01:55.280 responsibility for what I did. The judge NOTE Confidence: 0.88585913 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:57.387 handed down a sentence of six years, NOTE Confidence: 0.88585913 00:01:57.390 --> 00:01:59.208 three months in prison. At this NOTE Confidence: 0.88585913 00:01:59.210 --> 00:02:00.720 time, defendant is remanded to NOTE Confidence: 0.88585913 00:02:00.720 --> 00:02:02.230 the custody of the sheriff. NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:04.470 --> 00:02:05.854 So the judge gave Mitchell NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:05.854 --> 00:02:06.958 credit for time served, NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:06.960 --> 00:02:08.345 which means he'll spend about NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:08.345 --> 00:02:09.730 four more years in prison. NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:09.730 --> 00:02:11.115 But again, there's no licensing NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:11.115 --> 00:02:12.500 or regulation in this industry. NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:12.500 --> 00:02:14.676 So he could be right back in the NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:14.676 --> 00:02:16.111 body donation business as soon NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:16.111 --> 00:02:18.040 as he gets out of prison, which NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:18.040 --> 00:02:19.708 is crazy. You have reported about, NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:19.710 --> 00:02:21.366 yeah, all the problems in the NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:21.366 --> 00:02:22.752 body donation industry. I mean, NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:22.752 --> 00:02:24.408 is there any legislation pending right NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:24.410 --> 00:02:26.072 now? You know, some states do NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:26.072 --> 00:02:27.458 have their own laws, Greg. NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:27.458 --> 00:02:28.570 But what's really needed, NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:28.570 --> 00:02:29.398 according to critics, NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:29.398 --> 00:02:30.226 is federal legislation. NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:30.230 --> 00:02:31.338 Oftentimes, these companies accept NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:31.338 --> 00:02:33.000 bodies from all over the country. NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:34.530 There is a federal bill. NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:34.530 --> 00:02:35.376 Before Congress now. NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:35.376 --> 00:02:37.074 But it's just sitting there, stalled. NOTE Confidence: 0.8592241 00:02:37.074 --> 00:02:38.778 Been sitting there for a year NOTE Confidence: 0.74830514 00:02:38.780 --> 00:02:40.754 or so and just hasn't gone anywhere. NOTE Confidence: 0.74830514 00:02:40.760 --> 00:02:42.170 Just incredible. Strange and yes, NOTE Confidence: 0.74830514 00:02:42.170 --> 00:02:43.022 incredible story. Yeah. NOTE Confidence: 0.74830514 00:02:43.022 --> 00:02:44.487 Thank you. Yeah, you bet.