A Texas mother is demanding DNA tests after claiming she recognised her son's body in a Las Vegas museum exhibition. Kim Erick, 54, visited the Real Bodies exhibit and says she is certain one of the preserved corpses is her son Chris, who died in 2012.
Erick described the moment she saw the body as 'gut-wrenching', saying it showed her son 'skinned and butchered'. She noted a skull fracture matching an injury Chris sustained, and said his tattoos had been removed, which she believes was done to conceal his identity.
The museum, run by Imagine Exhibitions Inc., denies the claim, stating the specimen has been on display since 2004 and is 'biologically unidentifiable'. Police investigated Chris's death and ruled it a suicide, but Erick remains convinced he was murdered, citing a toxicology report showing cyanide in his system.
Erick has not visited the exhibition in person but has pleaded for the remains to be handed over for testing. The museum insists all bodies are ethically sourced from China and cannot be linked to any individual.
