MILWAUKEE – They dug up corpses, sold body parts, and made millions of dollars.

Now, the man who orchestrated the gruesome scheme is going to jail.

It’s an exclusive TODAY’S TMJ4 I-Team follow up.

We first told you about this story two years ago.

Ten-thousand people got surgical implants from stolen corpses.

Now, they’re scared they could get sick.

The guys who did it are behind bars.

“I was just really shocked to hear something like this could happen,” David Stuckmann said.

Stuckmann walks around with a piece of bone in his back. That was likely stolen from a corpse.

The Sheboygan man had no idea until he got a letter from his doctor.

”So they said ‘You have to come in for some blood tests for HIV and hepatitis and all them kinds of diseases,’” Stuckmann said.

Stuckmann is one of more than a dozen people in Milwaukee who got that letter.

So what happened?

Dr. Michael Mastromarino of New York ran the grisly scheme. He paid funeral directors to carve up the bodies and harvest bone and tissue without permission.

Those parts were processed and sold to hospitals to use in reconstructive surgery.

Mastromarino apologized to the families in court and even called his actions “disgusting and embarrassing.”

Mastromarino’s apology didn’t sway the judge in Philadelphia. He’ll spend between 25 and 58 years in prison.

He was previously sentenced to 18 to 54 years in prison in New York. His new sentence will run concurrently, meaning the 45-year-old has a chance to leave prison in his lifetime.

Many surgical patients who received the tainted transplants have filed lawsuits against Mastromarino as well.