A Kentucky woman who was expecting a medicine delivery opened the package only to discover severed human arms and fingers on ice, according to a report.
After receiving the gruesome surprise on Wednesday, the woman called 911 from her home in Hopkinsville, The New York Times reported.
“We were expecting a delivery of urgent medication that was flown in on like a Nashville airport thing, and they delivered two boxes,” she said in the 911 call obtained by WSMV.
“We opened one box and it turned out to be human body parts for transplant, like it’s very medicinal,” she continued.
“We’re trying to know where it goes. We just didn’t want to be in the possession of body parts that don’t belong to us.”
Emergency responders then called in Christian County coroner Scott Daniel to retrieve the two arms and four digits, The Times reported.
Daniel took the limbs to the local morgue, where a courier retrieved them on Thursday. It is not immediately clear what courier delivered the alarming package, the outlet said.
The package full of body parts originated in Nashville and was slated to be delivered to a school or hospital for surgical training, the coroner said.
The body parts in the parcel came from four different bodies, Daniel said.
The woman, who was not identified, eventually had her time-sensitive medications and medical supplies delivered a day later, the coroner told the outlet.
“I didn’t ask,” he told the outlet in response to a question about the source of the body parts.
“I mean, I’d assume, obviously, I think they came from cadavers that had been donated.”
The coroner maintained that anyone who finds themselves in a similar gory predicament should call the authorities and avoid any extreme measures, such as refrigerating body parts.
“I think she did the right thing,” Daniel said.
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