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Oddities: Post-Mortem Model
A hopeful seller brings Evan Michelson a likely post-mortem medical model of a hand and arm that experienced a high-voltage electrical burn.
Added: Dec 14, 2010
Views: 112288 Views
Runtime: 01:54
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