Overview
- U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann handed down the sentence Monday in Williamsport on federal conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property charges.
- Pauley was ordered to pay a $2,000 fine, about $1,700 in restitution for Baby Lux’s cremation costs, and serve three years of supervised release, and he must surrender Jan. 16.
- Prosecutors said Pauley admitted buying remains stolen from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary and reselling or preserving them for collectors.
- Victim impact statements described profound trauma and uncertainty, while prosecutors labeled Pauley a critical middleman who profited from donated bodies.
- The case underscored legal gaps around possession and sale of human remains, and Arkansas later passed Lux’s Law to criminalize selling remains intended for burial or cremation.