The State - News from July 25, 1989

A Riverside couple whose dream of owning a home was shattered when they found bags of formaldehyde-preserved human organs in the back yard filed a lawsuit against the home’s previous owners, their real estate agent and several government agencies. The unusual lawsuit alleges that real estate agents concealed from Gail and Mark McClure the fact that the house they bought had been used as a laboratory by its former owners, who sectioned human tissue samples there for the Riverside County coroner’s office. The McClures’ grisly discovery last October greatly reduced the property’s value and caused the couple “severe mental, emotional and physical distress,” says the Riverside County Superior Court complaint, which seeks unspecified damages. “They have been intensely traumatized by this incident,” the couple’s attorney, Michelle Reinglass, said.