Police caught a Des Moines, Iowa woman who faked her own death to avoid paying her traffic tickets.

Court documents show that Du tried to avoid paying several tickets by sending a letter to the courthouse. The letter is allegedly signed by Du’s mother and said Du died on Dec. 5, according to court documents.

Investigators said the information submitted include a phony obituary made to look like a page from The Des Moines Register’s Web site that said Du died in car accident, and her mother’s signature was forged.

The case began to unravel when investigators said Du was stopped for another traffic ticket in January, which was a month after the obituary was dated.

Now, she goes from just having to pay $500 in fine to facing a 5-year prison term for committing a felony.

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Police busted a ring of body-snatching funeral homes thieves who harvested body parts for transplant from over 1,000 corpses without knowledge of family members.

It’s one of more than one thousand cases of what’s being called medical terrorism. X-rays depict the disturbing findings. People’s deceased loved ones filled with PVC piping where bones and tissue were allegedly illegally harvested and sold for transplants.

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Artist Sharon Baker (yes, that’s her real name) baked a life-size model of her own naked body out of bread dough.

"It was prompted by the sad and early death of a friend from breast cancer," she said.

"I wanted to create a body in something that would decay like the human body does.

"The fragility of life really strikes home when somebody dies young."

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From Rotten.com:

The following illustrations were originally published in Chanteclair, a Parisian artistic and medical revue. The magazine issued twice monthly beginning in 1905 and lasted until around 1935, its circulation mostly confined to the medical profession. In eight pages, Chanteclair intersperses poetry and engravings with feuilletons and expository articles lauding its publisher and sole advertiser, the cure-all Carnine Lefrancq, "pur suc de viande de bœuf CRUE CONCENTRÉ" — pure concentrated raw beef juice — a potential treatment for anorexia, chlorosis, consumption, neurasthenia, and other diseases. In addition, each issue spotlighted a contemporary surgeon, offering a capsule biography to accompany a typically allegorical caricature.

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SomethingAwful.com has a list of Rejected "Choose Your Own Adventure" Books.