WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- Who takes care of the unclaimed dead, the people who were homeless or estranged from family members, or who outlived all their kin, and left no assets behind? The answer is ...

Funeral home owners in Etowah County say they’re seeing more unclaimed bodies with no family or friends to bury them.

DETROIT – Economic hardship can be found at every corner--even outside the Wayne County Morgue. There, 67 giant freezers on trailers store a record number of unclaimed bodies because neither the ...

This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” an NBC News series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. The revelation that a Texas medical school was routinely dissecting the ...

BELTON, Texas (KWTX) - The owner of Crotty Funeral Home has more than 20 unclaimed bodies, and while she has the information identifying the remains, she has no idea who is missing them. The funeral ...

Nakuru County has announced plans to dispose of 49 unclaimed bodies currently held at public mortuaries if they remain ...

This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. A Texas county that for years gave unclaimed bodies to a local medical school ...