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FBI raid of Kentucky home finds 40 human skulls, spinal cords used as decoration | National

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Bullitt County man was arrested Tuesday after FBI agents found dozens of skulls and other human remains in his Mt. Washington home.

The FBI obtained an arrest warrant for James Nott after an investigation started last year. Court documents show Nott, 39, purchased humans remains online using the alias “William Burke.” Law enforcement viewed Nott’s public Facebook page, which included posts about human remains for sale as recently as June 2023. 

A Pennsylvania man, Jeremy Pauley, was selling the human remains, including organs and skin, from his home. Pauley purchased the remains, which included hearts, brains, lungs and two fetal specimens, through Facebook Messenger from Candace Chapman, a mortician in Arkansas. Pauley sold and transported with a network of people, including Nott.

The FBI executed a search warrant Tuesday at the home in the 300 block of Love Avenue. Nott was the only person in the apartment, but when an FBI agent asked if anyone else was there, he responded, “only my dead friends.”

During the search, FBI agents found about 40 human skulls, spinal cords, femurs and hip bones. The skulls were decorated and around furniture in the apartment. One of the skulls had a head scarf around it, while another was on Nott’s bed. 

FBI agents also found an AK-47 with loaded magazines, dummy grenades, two plates of body armor and a loaded .38 special revolver. 

Nott was previously sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release for felony violations including possession of an unregistered destructive device and possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of marijuana.

Nott made his initial appearance Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. He remains in federal custody

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FBI raid of Bullitt County home finds 40 human skulls, spinal cords used as decoration | Crime Reports

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Bullitt County man was arrested Tuesday after FBI agents found dozens of skulls and other human remains in his Mt. Washington home.

The FBI obtained an arrest warrant for James Nott after an investigation started last year. Court documents show Nott, 39, purchased humans remains online using the alias “William Burke.” Law enforcement viewed Nott’s public Facebook page, which included posts about human remains for sale as recently as June 2023. 

A Pennsylvania man, Jeremy Pauley, was selling the human remains, including organs and skin, from his home. Pauley purchased the remains, which included hearts, brains, lungs and two fetal specimens, through Facebook Messenger from Candace Chapman, a mortician in Arkansas. Pauley sold and transported with a network of people, including Nott.




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The FBI executed a search warrant Tuesday at the home in the 300 block of Love Avenue. Nott was the only person in the apartment, but when an FBI agent asked if anyone else was there, he responded, “only my dead friends.”

During the search, FBI agents found about 40 human skulls, spinal cords, femurs and hip bones. The skulls were decorated and around furniture in the apartment. One of the skulls had a head scarf around it, while another was on Nott’s bed. 

FBI agents also found an AK-47 with loaded magazines, dummy grenades, two plates of body armor and a loaded .38 special revolver.

Neighbors told WDRB News that Nott was considered a loner who kept to himself. Based on the amount of guns the FBI says Nott possessed, they consider themselves lucky nothing worse happened.

Nott was previously sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release for felony violations including possession of an unregistered destructive device

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Stolen human remains used as ‘decorations’ in Ky. man’s home

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LOUISVILLE, KY. (WAVE/Gray News) – When FBI agents served a federal search warrant at a Kentucky apartment, they said they discovered dozens of human bones inside, some of which were being used as furniture.

As many as 40 skulls were found during a raid at James William Nott’s home Tuesday morning in Mount Washington, according to the criminal complaint.

WAVE News Troubleshooters broke the story about the raid while continuing to confirm details about suspected human remains. That confirmation came Wednesday morning, hours before Nott was to have a detention hearing on his recent arrest.

According to the complaint, Nott was part of a ring of purchasing and selling stolen human remains, some of which were tied back to the Harvard Medical scandal, which the FBI also recently busted. A Harvard medical bag was found in Nott’s home.

The complaint says the FBI was investigating body parts going missing from a mortuary. The leads gathered during the investigation led FBI agents to several players, including Nott.

The grisly discovery included hip bones and spinal cords which were being used as decorations around furniture. They also described as many as 40 skulls. One of them had a scarf tied around its neck, and another was found on the bed where Nott slept, agents said.

The complaint goes on to say that when an FBI agent asked Nott if anyone else was inside the apartment, Nott replied, “Only my dead friends.”

Investigators say Nott used the name “William Burke” on Facebook to sell the items. Some posts were as recent as June 2023, the documents state. In one transaction with a person named Jeremy Pauley out of Pennsylvania, Nott sent videos and pictures of the remains.

“How much total for the couple and the last video you sent plus the spines?” Pauley

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FBI finds stolen human remains in Kentucky man’s home

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When FBI agents arrived at James Nott’s Kentucky apartment with a search warrant on Tuesday, they asked if anyone else was home.

“Only my dead friends,” Nott replied.

That’s according to the FBI, who in a criminal complaint detailed 40 human skulls and other remains they found decorating Nott’s home, tying him to a ring of people allegedly buying and selling human body parts illegally – including a Harvard Medical School morgue manager, who is accused of stealing cadaver parts.

The skulls were strewn around Nott’s house; one had a headscarf wrapped around it and another was found on the mattress where he slept, according to the complaint. The agents also found spinal cords, femurs, hip bones and a Harvard Medical School bag, according to the affidavit submitted by the FBI.

Nott has not been charged with crimes connected with the body parts. But he is facing a federal charge of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person due to his status as a convicted felon.

In 2011, Nott pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered destructive device, after being found with a detonation cord, igniting devices, timed fuses and other materials that could be used to assemble “a destructive device,” the complaint states.

CNN has reached out to Aaron Dyke, Nott’s public defender, for comment but has not heard back.

It all started last summer, when the police in East Pennsboro Township, Pennsylvania, received a tip about possible human remains located at the home of a man named Jeremy Pauley, according to the complaint. Officers searched his home in Enola, Pennsylvania, and found organs and skin, among other human remains, the FBI said.

During the FBI investigation, Pauley told agents about a network of people buying and selling stolen human body parts. The investigation revealed

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Stolen human skulls used as furniture ‘decorations’ in Ky. man’s home: FBI

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A Kentucky man was busted with dozens of stolen human skulls and other bones that he used as decorations —  and which he allegedly trafficked in a body parts ring linked to Harvard Medical School, federal authorities said Thursday.

At least 40 human skulls — including one with a scarf wrapped around its neck — along with hip bones, rib cages and spines were found in James William Nott’s Mount Washington apartment during an FBI raid Tuesday, according to a criminal complaint cited by kmov.com.

Asked by an agent if anyone else was in his home, Nott, 40, allegedly replied, “Only my dead friends.”

The bone collector is accused of using the name “William Burke” to sell the human remains — which he fastened to his bed and furniture as creepy home decor, according to federal officials.

He allegedly worked with the ring to buy and sell the bones, which were linked to Harvard Medical School, where a morgue manager was arrested last month for selling the parts of corpses, authorities said.


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The FBI found dozens of skulls and other bones used as decoration inside the Kentucky home of James William Nott.
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A Harvard medical bag was found in Nott’s home, along with loaded firearms, including at least one AK-47, according to the criminal complaint.

In a Facebook message last month, Nott allegedly talked to another bone buff, Jeremy Pauley of Pennsylvania, about selling the bones, authorities said.

“How much total for the couple and the last video you sent plus the spines?” Pauley allegedly asked Nott, before assuring him he’d get paid.


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Nott allegedly sold the human remains on Facebook.
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Pauly was later investigated and told agents about the network of body part sellers, which allegedly also hawked hearts, brains and lungs.

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Man found with 40 human skulls and spinal cords ‘decorating’ his home, court filings say

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A Kentucky man was arrested after an FBI investigation led agents to discover dozens of human skulls and spinal cords “decorating” his apartment.

The case has been linked by authorities to the nationwide Harvard morgue trafficking scheme, in which a network of individuals were allegedly involved in trafficking human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School’s morgue.

FBI agents filed a federal criminal complaint and executed a search warrant at the Mount Washington home of a man, identified as 39-year-old James Nott, and have accused him of selling human remains and for illegally possessing a firearm.

The agents said they found about 40 human skulls, spinal cords, femurs and hip bones in Nott’s apartment, along with a Harvard Medical School bag.

According to the complaint, the FBI agents asked Nott if anyone else was in the house before entering, to which he replied: “Only my dead friends.”

The agents found human remains placed decoratively around his furniture and one found wrapped in a headscarf, while another was on Nott’s bed.

Authorities said they reviewed Nott’s Facebook profile and messages and found he had bought human remains online using the alias “William Burke”.

The Facebook page includes dealings of human remains as recently as June 2023, according to the documents.

According to the complaint, he exchanged messages with Jeremy Pauley, 40, from Pennsylvania who was charged in the Harvard morgue case for selling human remains. The two allegedly exchanged messages about selling and buying body parts.

The body parts found in Nott’s possession, however, are not believed to be from the Harvard morgue, according to an initial investigation, but he allegedly tried to sell them to someone connected to the case, reported HuffPost.

Nott sent photos and videos of human remains to Mr Pauley and said “these will be here

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Kentucky man accused of using skulls as decor

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FBI agents served a search warrant at James William Nott’s apartment Tuesday morning in Mount Washington. They found 40 skulls and dozens of human bones inside, according to an affidavit.

When FBI agents searched a Mount Washington, Kentucky, apartment Tuesday and found 40 human skulls, spinal cords, femurs and hip bones inside, they asked occupant James Nott if anyone else was home. 

“Only my dead friends,” he responded. 

Agents found one skull wrapped in a head scarf and another sitting on a mattress where Nott slept. Others were strewn around Apartment No. 3 as if they were decorations. 

The grisly discoveries were disclosed in a criminal complaint that put Nott in the middle of a multistate and international trade in body parts stolen from the morgue at Harvard Medical School and a mortuary in Little Rock, Arkansas. 

The complaint and an FBI affidavit to search Nott’s home in Mount Washington – which is roughly 25 miles southeast of Louisville – says Nott received body parts from abroad and sold them in the United States. 

In Facebook posts describing the parts and their price, Nott used the pseudonym “William Burke,” which the affidavit says in a footnote was used by a serial killer active in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1827-28 with his partner, William Hare. 

Together the pair sold the bodies of their victims to Dr. Robert Knox an influential lecturer in anatomy at the University of Edinburgh. 

The U.S. scheme was discovered when police in East Pennsboro Township, Pennsylvania, got a tip the human remains could be found at the residence of Jeremy Pauley, in nearby Enola.  

Police executed a search warrant and found items that included human organs and skin. 

Pauley’s wife, Sarah, provided law enforcement with screen shots that showed he was communicating with a woman who worked at a mortuary in Little Rock, Arkansas. 

She allegedly stole remains that were due to be cremated and sold them to Pauley over Facebook. They included human hearts, brains lungs and

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