‘What happened to his organs?’: Sister alleges body of Carnival Cruise Line worker in the Bahamas was returned, missing organs

The family of a man employed onboard Carnival Cruise Line but died at the Rand Memorial Hospital in Grand Bahama is crying foul after his body was allegedly returned to Italy with missing organs.

“We want to know if he died at work and what happened to his organs,” sister Rosaria Torrisi lamented to an Italian local daily.

Her brother Alfio Torrisi, 54, worked as a carpenter on Carnival Paradise, employed by Techni Teak, a company based in Riposto, Sicily. He was reportedly hospitalized after becoming ill onboard the popular cruise line while docked in Grand Bahama. Still, he died on October 2023 while under medical care at the Rand Memorial Hospital in Freeport.

When the man’s body returned to Sicily, Italy, the family claims it was stuffed with wood dust and newspaper instead of organs, upon examination by an Italian forensic pathologist.

“My brother was very well. He had undergone medical checks shortly before and was healthy,” Rosaria told La Sicilia.

“He left behind a wife and a child, and us sisters and brothers with [a] destroyed father.

The Prosecutor’s Office in Catania, Italy has launched an investigation into his death, suspecting involuntary manslaughter.

“It all seems so absurd,” the angry sister added.

The Catania Prosecutor’s Office said it had written a letter to the hospital, seeking an explanation regarding the circumstances surrounding his death and reasons for the missing organs, but has heard nothing. It has since started the process for an international rogatory commission to obtain the necessary evidence for the involuntary manslaughter case it intends to pursue.

“We will not rest until we have the truth,” Rosario concluded.