However, the harvester of Harvard Medical School's cadavers  preferred "oddity collector," thank you very much.

Now, despite an extensive illegal operation in trafficking body parts, Pauley was spared any jail time by federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Thompson will serve two years of probation after pleading guilty last year to conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property.

The prosecutors dropped charges for dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities and receiving stolen property.

According to the Justice Department, Pauley "admitted to his role in a nationwide network of individuals who bought and sold human remains." His macabre business involved buying body parts from cadavers donated for medical research before their scheduled cremations. His inside source was Cedric Lodge, who managed the morgue for the Anatomical Gifts Program at Harvard Medical School.

Lodge allegedly ran a type of cadaver market in which he would allow customers to come into the morgue and pick out parts they wanted. Harvard insists that it was entirely unaware of the operation and has condemned the conduct of all those involved.

Pauley had other alleged sources like Candace Chapman Scott, an employee at a Little Rock mortuary. Scott even used Facebook Messenger to send pictures of her inventory including a brain and the heart.

When police went to his house, Pauley told officers that collected "oddities" and that he had 15 to 20 human skulls he had legally purchased in his possession. Later the police returned with a search warrant and found three five-gallon buckets filled with human remains.