Mothers, fathers, sons and daughters were outraged to learn weeks, months or even years later that their relatives’ dead bodies had been given to the University of North Texas Health Science Center to be studied and dissected, NBC News found in a yearlong investigation. Nearly a dozen of these families received the grim and grisly truth not from a medical examiner, hospital or police officer — but from NBC News and Noticias Telemundo, including six who found their relative’s name on a list of unclaimed bodies published by the news outlets in October. The families who learned from NBC News that their relatives were studied without consent are continuing to mourn their lost loved ones. The dead included military veterans and blue-collar workers. Men and women who struggled with drug addiction and mental illness. A World War II history buff. A young murder victim. Read more of their stories at the link in bio.