A Las Vegas museum is disputing disturbing allegations from a Texas mother who believes one of its plastinated cadavers is actually the body of her late son. The claim, which has resurfaced online, has revived a years-long struggle for answers surrounding a death she has never fully accepted.
Kim Erick believes that the remains of her son, Chris Todd Erick, who died in 2012 at age 23, were somehow used in the Real Bodies anatomy exhibit. Her doubts began with questions about the official explanation of his death and intensified after she saw a seated, skinned figure known as “The Thinker.”