Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry announced today that David Charles has pleaded guilty and been sentenced for breaking into the Indiana Medical History Museum to steal jars of human brain tissue and other human tissues.
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According to reports in the Indy Star, he was flogging his freakish takings on social media. It’s located in what was formerly Indianapolis’s Central State Hospital, once known as the Indiana Hospital for the Insane.
Doctors autopsied some of those patients, and kept their remains perserved in jars, to learn more about mental illness.
The stolen items were subsequently re-sold on eBay.
Investigators identified him using a piece of paper with his bloody fingerprint on which he had left behind at the museum.
He pleaded guilty to six charges including burglary and receiving stolen property in a Marion County court. Terms of the sentence are one year of home detention, two years of probation, and Charles must obtain a high school diploma or GED certificate.
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Police also were contacted by the buyer, a San Diego man who purchased six of the jars online for $600, after the buyer noticed labels on the containers and suspected wrongdoing.
