The Rise of the Skeleton King, the '80s Bone Dealer Who Changed Halloween
by Hudson Hongo on Gizmodo, shared by Tom Ley to Dead from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#41ZME)
When Marshall Cordell started buying human bones in the late 1970s, he says a full skeleton from India cost "probably $199." Back then, almost all real human skeletons came from India, and companies there sent him catalogs listing everything from skulls to finger bones for sale.