This investigation started almost eleven years ago in April of 2014. Indiana farmer Don Miller’s home was raided by the FBI’s art crime team. “Why?” you may be wondering? Because the Indiana farmer had over 42,000 illegally obtained historical artifacts within his home.

Don Miller had turned his large farm house into a make-shift museum that he would let local school kids and Boy Scouts go through. But all of his items, from small Native American arrow heads, to a full sized Terracotta Warrior on his front porch, were obtained through illegal means.

Half of the artifacts collected were of Native American origin; 2,000 of these items were human remains. That’s right, you read that correctly. Human remains. Bones. He had collected 2,000 bones from over 500 different Native peoples. These were real bones. Some of them, he had glued together to make a full skeleton that agents found in a display case. Some of the other pieces were on display, but the rest, though? They were tossed in black trash bags and hidden in his fallout shelter.

He had over 300 artifacts from China. These artifacts included, but were not limited to, Ming Dynasty jade pieces. These artifacts were returned to Chinese delegates to be shipped back to China shortly after the home was raided.

What’s even more interesting about Don Miller? He was known for his help with the Manhattan project during World War II.

He had used his free time when he was working with the Manhattan project to go to archaeological digs. He also went on several missionary trips with his wife, Sue Miller.

This might make you think, how old was Miller? Well, at the time of the raid, he was 91 years-old. He had been taking artifacts from digs and buying them off of looters since 1945. He passed away a year after, in 2015. They still haven’t fully finished going through all of the artifacts they found in his home, which means that he was never charged or arrested before he passed.