A woman who donated her husband's body to science was left horrified after she discovered it had been sold - as a crash test dummy.
Steve Hansen had registered to become an organ donor in 2012 after agreeing to donate his body to science but it was rejected after he died from cirrhosis of the liver.
Medics told his wife, Jill, her husband's body wasn't healthy enough to be considered for organ donation and suggested giving his body to science.
She agreed to the idea and believed it would be good for doctors to learn about the affects of alcohol to the body after he signed up through the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.
Jill told CBS: “What I envisioned was him being in some medical facility. I just thought, what a great candidate for them to learn about the results of alcoholism and what it does to a body.”
However, Jill was stunned to learn her husband's body was in fact sold to the Department of Defence after initially being taken to the Biological Research Center in Arizona, US.
It was there where she found out the devastating news - her husband's body was used as a crash test dummy in a simulated explosion.
Jill said: "They told me specifically that my husband had been used as a crash test dummy in a simulated Humvee explosion."
The grieving wife found out her husband's body was sold by Stephen Gore, founder of the now-closed Phoenix body donation facility.
His company sold Steve's body without Jill's consent, along with thousand's of others, and was used to conduct military and ballistics tests which resulted in “the complete mutilation and desecration of the donor’s body.”
Jill said the news left her completely devastated as she kept apologising to her husband.
She said: “I was devastated. I would’ve never done it if I had known. I just kept telling him I was sorry.”
Mr Gore was arrested in 2014 and his facilities were raided along with his home.
FBI workers were left needing trauma therapy because of the graphic bodies left on show - with one worker refusing to go back to the scene after the traumatic experience.
An FBI agent told court: "I personally observed several individuals emotionally upset. Some individuals refused to go back into the scene."
A jury awarded $58 million (£42 million) to 10 of 21 families against Mr Gore, owner of the Biological Resource Centre of Arizona.
His business was accused of using selling thousands of donated bodies, which were meant for medical research, but were instead sold for military testing.
In addition, families who were promised the cremated remains of relatives received boxes with what they thought were their loved ones.
However, they later discovered the bodies were sold to third parties such as the military or were still at the facility.
He was sentenced to a year in prison with four years on parole after pleading guilty in 2015 to operating an illegal enterprise.
