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17 Human Heads Found at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport

Jan. 15, 2013 8:59am Jonathon M. Seidl

Disturbing news out of Chicago says that 17 severed human heads have been found at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. The heads still had skin on them and were wrapped in plastic. However, foul play is not expected: Sources say the heads may have been sent from Italy for science purposes.

MyFoxChicago.com explains:

Sources tell FOX 32 News that they came from Italy, and may have been sent to be used for some kind of scientific research or a medical experiment.

Authorities said no foul play was suspected. U.S. Customs and Border Protection were investigating but declined to comment Monday night.

You can watch the news report below:

Chicago News and Weather | FOX 32 News

Update:

The Associated Press reports the heads were, in fact, on there way from Italy and were set to be cremated but a paperwork problem caused a hold up:

A shipment of 18 human heads held up by customs officials at O’Hare International Airport was bound for a cremation service in the Chicago area after its use in medical research abroad.

A spokeswoman for the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, Mary Paleologos (PEHL’-ee-oh-loh-gohs), said Tuesday that the heads were originally sent from Illinois to Italy for medical research and were returned to the area for disposal as part of the agreement.

She says a paperwork problem held up the shipment, which arrived at O’Hare in mid-December.

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Acena
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 12:01pm
Just a few Christians and Jews who refused to convert to Islam .
Watch muslim beheading vids and you’ll figure out who they were.

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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 2:33pm
  Why does the headline read that 17 heads were found and the article says 18 heads were found? I think they need to do another headcount.
  
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- TomFerrari
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:21pm
  Nobody needs a plane that can hold 17 or 18 heads!
  1 plane, 1 pilot, 1 passenger!!!
  Demand PLANE CONTROL NOW !!
  When will the carnage end?
  They’re for medical use? ABOLISH DOCTORS ! People are DYING!
  Statistics prove THOUSANDS of people die in hospitals every year!
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:49pm
  Did one of them look like Communist obama ?? If not I’m not interested in this Head article.
  
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- FieldJudge
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:24am
  CHICAGO: Missing “Clinton era” shipping crate found at O’Hare
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 3:05pm
  Oh thank God, they’re for scientific purposes.
  
  I was very worried for a moment that this would be another crisis “requiring a fix”,
  
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dublinthewagons
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 12:00pm
They were Italian Democrats. The heads are being tested for rabies.
This might be a good idea. Can this administration be checked for the mad disease rabies

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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:55am
I guess we just found out where 17 of the Benghazi survivors are.

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krod2516
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:44am
So cant bring mouthwash, but severed heads cool?

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- blanco5
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 1:43pm
  Ha!
  
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love the kids
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:44am
Aren’t there enough body parts left from all the violence there already?

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Eastinfection
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:45am
Isn’t “head” slang for “toilet”?

Maybe they found only 17 functioning toilets.

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- hatchetjob
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 12:16pm
  Right on, EAST!
  
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- Twobyfour
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:58pm
  Some people\s heads remind me of dysfunctional toilets.
  
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Obamujahadeen
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:30am
Is this the sequel to that brutal movie with Joe Pesci about 10 years ago, remember it?

THIS one they’ll call “18 Heads in a duffel bag in Obamacagoville”

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- pavepaws
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 2:30pm
  Just trying to get ahead.
  
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noslave
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:17am
after watching the obama media?, and obama getting re-elected in spite of his failures,they had to look elsewhere for heads that actually contained BRAINS??

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Frank_Wall
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:07am
They seem very quick to rule out foul play. If it’s really scientific, I wonder how someone can just lose 17 heads. Madness.

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RIGS
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:04am
They probably are the heads of liberal marxists who went to italy to try and tell how to eat pasta w/o cooking it.

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:55am
Underground Body Parts Market. No Need for Heads. They can’t do brain transplants yet. PROOF: Obama was re-elected.

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Cavallo
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:38am
Likely they all belonged to US ambassadors, hence the authorities not suspecting foul play. Likely they’re the result of some internet video.

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midnightsun
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:38am
Ron, that was pretty funny!

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whiskeyrebel
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:38am
From one mafia stronghold to another with love. There is nothing science needs to learn that would require this. This is foul play to the core. It is definitely a message to gangsters in Chicago from rival gangsters. But that’s just my paranoia speaking, probably.

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:35am
Were they talking?

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Mia Cav
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:33am
Really, Blaze? 18, not 17. In your haste, you miss data.

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Ron Staiger
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:33am
These are the 17 people in Chicago who did NOT vote for Obama.

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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:44am
  acually according to the mahematics of democratic voting – that actually make 34 new Obama voters – 17votes for the heads and 17 votes for the headless bodies – but then again – since most dem voters don’t use their heads when they vote anyway……
  
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sizzlinsexybeckster
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:24am
Apparently the severed heads do not fit into their ‘gun theme’ so they’re going to ignore it; blame it on something else. They don’t want to admit there is a violence issue but only a gun issue since it suits their agenda.

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- Displacedsoutherner
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:48am
  My wife and I actually sat next to a well dressed, very normal looking/sounding guy on a flight who worked for a medical supply company that went to places outside the US, mostly Mexico, and purchased human heads for surgical research and med school practice.
  
  Mexican prisons were the most common supply spots and he said some of the heads were still warm when they were handed over. Best to not ask too many questions.
  
  Gruesome but not really news.
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:28am
  Couldn’t you just pick up a few at your local head shop?
  
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- Gigi42
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 2:12pm
  @southerner: Not making any references to who the guy was beside whom you sat on a plane, but, what does the way he look have to do with what he was doing? Weirdos go to great lengths sometimes to look and act normal.
  
  If this was a normal event, it would not have made the news. The heads were “discovered”? There should be a live human who knows just where they are and where they belong at every moment they’re being shipped.
  
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- Wyatt-errrp
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 2:38am
  “There should be a live human who knows just where they are and where they belong at every moment they’re being shipped.”
  
  Maybe there WAS a live human until “foul play”, and 17 heads became 18!
  
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Vickie Dhaene
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:18am
No foul play suspected?! Skulls with skin only wrapped in plastic and no one has a problem with it?

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- Top_Contributor
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:21am
  Reading comprehension is something you need to work on.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:42am
  Probably justified in “not” suspecting foul play! They were not “chicken heads” wrapped in plastic! And as for you TOP, your comments are quite, poultry!!!
  
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Top_Contributor
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:17am
Sensational headline for a non-story. Typical dishonest Blaze tactic used to generate clicks. Taking yet another play from Drudge.

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- elclemens
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:34am
  So top con enlighten us with your take on this story. Gonna believe what the “authorities” say?
  
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Fed up in Bama
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:16am
You have to send a head from Italy to do experiments in the US? You can’t find some ‘dead heads’ in America? Are these special heads? Come on!!! They expect us to believe this?

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- Stelex
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:21am
  All the dead heads in America are in the liberal think tanks.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:36am
  Or out looking for “bootleg” cassette recordings of Jerry and the boy’s!!!
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:10am
Sicilian Connection?

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raabhimself
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:09am
Severed heads found… No foul play suspected? Seriously? You would think that the customs or whoever would have saw to it to make this apparent to airport personnel.

Anything to declare?
Oh, just some severed heads, no biggie…

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Capt_Gregg
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:09am
Considering Chicago’s murder rate, I would think they would be EXPORTING body parts instead of importing them.

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Ron Staiger
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:06am
17 baggage handlers on duty when Michelle’s luggage was lost in 2006

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- whiskeyrebel
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:35am
  lol
  
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- stlcardsfan
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:39am
  Awesome
  
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