Ted Williams head abused by ALCOR

Ted Williams frozen head was beaten and abused by employees of Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, AZ.

A new book, “Frozen,” details all the inhumane and horrific things done to frozen human remains as well as live animals at the cryonics lab.

Author Larry Johnson was the chief operating officer for Alcor for a period of eight months. He was outraged at what he saw during this time. In 2003 he went public with details of the atrocities and received death threats. While writing “Frozen” he was forced to stay in hiding. Johnson will be making his first public appearance on ABC’s Nightline on Tuesday.

The barbaric acts which he describes are absolutely hellish. I will warn you, if you have a weak stomach, do not continue reading!

Johnson says that baseball legend Ted Williams’ body was kept at the cryonics lab. He died of leukemia in July 2003 at the age of 83. The company was paid $120,000 to take the body and have it suspended in liquid nitrogen.

At some point, for reasons unknown, an employee, someone who was not a doctor or medical technician, gruesomely decapitated Williams’ frozen head, using “crude equipment” to do so. Holes were drilled in Williams’ skull and microphones were inserted. Then the head was placed on a tuna can in it’s chamber, so it would stand upright. The employee[s] then recorded the sound of the brain cracking sixteen times as temperatures reached -321 degrees Fahrenheit. Later an employee tried removing the tuna can from the head, but it was frozen to it. So the person took a monkey wrench and beat at it, sometimes missing the can and splattering frozen head parts in the room.

Absolutely horrific! But there’s more, and it’s equally as disturbing.

Johnson also says that live dogs were dismembered, pumped full of chemicals and experimented on, and that human blood and toxic chemicals were dumped down a sewer drain.

All disgusting, unimaginable stuff.

The last two months he was employed at Alcor, Johnson wired himself, took photos and stole documents as proof of what he had witnessed. He says that all he really wants is for Ted Williams’ last request be fulfilled. That he might be cremated and “sprinkled at sea off the coast of Florida, where the water is very deep.”

Alcor is denying all Johnson’s allegations and the company has posted the following on their website:

October 2, 2009: Alcor denies allegations reported in the press that there was mistreatment or disrespectful treatment of the remains of Ted Williams at Alcor, and will be litigating this and any other false allegations to the maximum extent of the law. Alcor cannot respond to individual media inquiries at this time.

I have to say this story disgusts and saddens me. People are very loathsome creatures at times. If this story is true I commend Johnson for being brave enough to come forward with it all. I believe him though, how the hell could you make this stuff up? I hope this story gets the attention it deserves because every single one of the people involved should be prosecuted and this company MUST be stopped! I plan on keeping up on this one, and will keep you updated as more details emerge.

Watch Nightline on ABC Tuesday for Larry Johnson’s interview.