Woman Sues After Two Year Hunt for Brains

A Long Island woman has filed a $4 million lawsuit against the Mount Sinai Medical Center, its Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders, and the Suffolk County medical examiner's office for removing her husband's brain after his death two years ago. Mozelle Purifoy of Central Islip says that neither she nor her husband Tom had ever agreed for his organs to be donated before his suicide in 2006. Yet on the day of his funeral she learned that he was being buried minus one key part. Even though she claims that the chief Suffolk medical examiner met with her last year and told her that it should have been returned, she still doesn't know where the brain is. "It's ghoulish. It's bizarre. It's just one trauma after the next," Purifoy said.