Editing Alistair Cooke (section)

===Theft of bones ===
On 22 December 2005, the ''[[New York Daily News]]'' reported that several of Cooke's bones, and those of many other people, had been surgically removed before cremation by employees of [[Biomedical Tissue Services]] of [[Fort Lee, New Jersey]], a tissue-recovery firm.<ref name="JADA">Holtzclaw, D; Toscano, N; Eisenlohr, L; Callan, D (2008), [http://jada.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/139/9/1192 "The Safety of Bone Allografts Used in Dentistry: A Review"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927224540/http://jada.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/139/9/1192 |date=27 September 2008 }}, ''[[Journal of the American Dental Association|JADA]]'' 139: 1192–1199</ref> The thieves sold the bones for use as [[Bone grafting|medical-grade bone grafts]].<ref name="How much is your body worth">{{cite news| title = How much is your body worth?| date = 9 January 2007| website = DocumentaryStorm.com| url = http://documentarystorm.com/20091206/how-much-is-your-body-worth/| archive-url = https://archive.today/20130122030028/http://documentarystorm.com/20091206/how-much-is-your-body-worth/| url-status = dead| archive-date = 22 January 2013| access-date = 5 December 2009}}</ref> The cancer from which Cooke was suffering had spread to his bones, making them unsuitable for grafts. Reports indicated the people involved in selling the bones altered his death certificate to hide the cause of death and reduce his age from 95 to 85.<ref>{{cite news| last = Zahn| first = Paula| title = Paula Zahn Now| publisher=CNN| date = 9 January 2006| url =http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/09/pzn.01.html | access-date =21 August 2007}}</ref> Michael Mastromarino, a former New Jersey–based [[oral surgeon]],<ref name="JADA"/> and Lee Cruceta agreed to a deal that resulted in their imprisonment.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7192462.stm |work=BBC News | title=Plea deal in US body parts case | date=16 January 2008 | access-date=23 April 2010}}</ref> Mastromarino was sentenced on 27 June 2008, in the [[New York Supreme Court]], to 18 to 54 years' imprisonment.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/27/body.parts.sentence.ap/index.html |title=Mastermind of body parts scheme sentenced to prison |website=CNN.com |date=27 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629120510/http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/27/body.parts.sentence.ap/index.html |archive-date=29 June 2008 }}</ref> The entire story of the theft was featured in a documentary aimed at educating the public about modern-day [[grave robbery]].<ref name="How much is your body worth"/> On the morning of 7 July 2013, at age 49, Michael Mastromarino died at St. Luke's Hospital after suffering from [[liver cancer]].<ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/nyregion/michael-mastromarino-dentist-guilty-in-organ-scheme-dies-at-49.html| title= Michael Mastromarino, Dentist Guilty in Organ Scheme, Dies at 49| first= Daniel E.| last= Slotnik| date= 8 July 2013| work= The New York Times| access-date= 29 August 2016}}</ref>