A Chicago man cannot understand why anyone would call the police to report he was boiling a human skull in a pot of water on the stove.
And now, after checking out what sure seemed like a promising lead - a human head in bubbling water - police say what Brian Sloan was doing was about as illegal as boiling hot dogs.
"It doesn't seem to be anything nefarious at this time," police Lieutenant Perry Nigro said. "As weird as it is, it doesn't seem like anything is wrong."
Officials at the FBI and the Food and Drug Administration came to the same conclusion that no laws were broken. It turns out, Sloan, who had not one but four human skulls in his apartment, buys and sells human bones - for medical research - on eBay, the auction website.
"There are thousands of anthropologists, medical professionals and interested people who want to study anatomy through human bones," said Sloan, who was visited by police after one of his previous visitors called them on Tuesday. "It's not that unusual."
The skulls, about 70 to 80 years old, according to police, were purchased overseas. And thanks to an examination by the Cook County medical examiner's office, potential buyers can rest assured there was no sign of trauma to any of them.
They may not, however, be sold.
The medical examiner's office continued to hold them on Thursday and said it was unclear when or even if they will be returned.
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