Museum issues response after mom claims she saw son’s “skinned” body displayed

A Las Vegas museum has responded to shocking allegations by a mother who accused them of displaying her son’s dead body.

Kim Erick has insisted the remains of her son, Chris Todd Erick, were plastinated to make up part of an exhibition called Real Bodies.

Chris died in 2012, aged 23. The young man was found deceased in bed at his grandmother’s home in Midlothian, Texas, about 30 miles south of Dallas, where he had been living at the time.

Police informed Kim that her son had died in his sleep after suffering two heart attacks, which they attributed to an undiagnosed heart condition, CBS News reports.