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Baltimore's grave-robbing economy is exposed after two white women's bodies are dissected.

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While the bodies that are taken from graves for anatomical dissection are mostly Black, poor, and marginalized people in Baltimore, there is a burst of public outrage after a wealthy white woman's niece and her sister are used for dissection without consent shortly after they are buried.