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• Family will not appeal cryonics ruling

  March 4, 2010 2:28 PM

  The family of a woman at the center of a court battle over freezing her remains will not appeal a court ruling that gives possession of the woman's head to a cryonics facility in Arizona. Mary Robbins head will be frozen indefinitely in the hope that it her thoughts... more »

• Family won't appeal ruling over woman's remains

  March 3, 2010 7:45 PM

  (AP) - A Colorado family has decided not to appeal a judge's decision to allow their mother's remains to be cryogenically frozen. Seventy-one-year-old Mary Robbins signed a contract with Alcor Life Extension Foundation in 2006 and set aside $50,000 to keep her remains frozen. Robbins' daughter says her mother... more »

• Ruling: Woman's head to go into cryonic storage

  March 1, 2010 11:27 AM

  A Colorado Springs family has lost a battle with an Arizona cryonics company over the head and brain of their family member. Judge Barbara Hughes ruled Monday morning that a contract signed by Mary Robbins remains in effect. This means that Alcor, which has packed Robbins' head in dry ice... more »

• UPDATE 5:52 Ruling will happen Monday

  February 26, 2010 7:44 PM

  UPDATE 5:52 The judge will give her ruling Monday at 9am. News First 5 will be there to bring you the latest information. UPDATE 5:32 Closing arguments are underway in this case. One one side Alcor wishes to fulfill its 2006 contract with Mary Robbins. That would require the... more »

• UPDATE 4:06 Friend witnessed change of beneficiary signature

  February 26, 2010 6:15 PM

  UPDATE 4:06 Friend Mary Jo Meade said she witnessed change of beneficiary before Mary's death. She told the court Mary had some "motor skill problems" so her signature appears shaky on the document. Also testifying this afternoon. Dr. William Timmins of Pikes Peak Hospice. He said he never got... more »

• UPDATE 3:26 Testimony: Mary could only afford having head frozen

  February 26, 2010 5:29 PM

  UPDATE 3:31 On witness stand now, Mary Jo Meade, a friend of Mary Robbins. She testified Mary had mentioned cryonics to her once. She said she could only afford to have her head, not her whole body, frozen. Testifying via phone, Jennifer Newman, another Pikes Peak Hospice employee testified... more »

• UPDATE 2:26 Hospice couldn't comply with cryonics protocols

  February 26, 2010 4:34 PM

  UPDATE 2:26 First witness for the Robbins family is Judith Richard of Pikes Peak Hospice. She said Mary was in a lot of pain before she died. Daughter Darlene asked her if she'd ever worked with someone who wanted to be frozen. Richard said she hadn't and that they would... more »

• UPDATE 2:08 Alcor rep was in Colorado Springs when he learned patient had died

  February 26, 2010 4:20 PM

  UPDATE 2:08 Alcor Transport Coordinator Aaron Drake said Mary Robbins told him she had terminal cancer. He said she seemed to want to go through with the cryonics procedure. He said he received an emergency text message on February 5. He spoke to daughter Darlene Robbins. He testified Darlene said... more »

• UPDATE 12:02 Judge wants to rule today in Alcor case

  February 26, 2010 2:10 PM

  UPDATE 12:02 Judge Hughes says she will try to issue a ruling today. Court is in recess until 1:30. Discussion over last few minutes centered on what Robbins signed up for. Dr. Wowk said the document didn't mention cryonics. Also discussion about stand by procedures and whether or not... more »

• UPDATE: Alcor representative says she didn't see written revocation

  February 26, 2010 12:59 PM

  UPDATE: 10:50 a.m. An Alcor employee Jennifer Chapman is now testifying by phone. She says that she didn't see a document revoking Alcor membership in her file for Mary Robbins. Chapman says she and another employee spoke to daughter Darlene Robbins on February 8, a week before Mary Robbins... more »

• Arguments begin in cryonics case

  February 26, 2010 12:15 PM

  Colorado Springs Probate Judge Barbara Hughes is hearing the strange case of Mary Robbins, who died from cancer a couple of weeks ago. She had wanted her body placed at Alcor in Arizona, a non-profit organization that stores human remains in very cold temperatures in hopes science will someday make... more »

• Dead woman's head stays on ice pending hearing

  February 19, 2010 6:59 PM

  A woman who died last week remains in a local mortuary -- her head packed each day in dry ice, in an unusual battle pitting her family against a cryonics organization in Arizona. Lawyers representing the family of Mary Robbins met with lawyers representing Alcor Life Extension Foundation before a... more »

• Organization battles to freeze local woman's head

  February 18, 2010 7:15 PM

  An Arizona organization wants to remove, and freeze the head of an elderly Colorado Springs woman who died last week, honoring an agreement it had with the woman. Mary Robbins, 71, of Colorado Springs died on February 9, after a two-month battle with cancer. Her body remains in a local... more »

• Book claims Ted Williams' head mistreated

  October 4, 2009 10:20 AM

  A new book by a former employee of Alcor, the company that froze Ted Williams' remains, alleges the baseball Hall of Famer's body was mistreated by the company. Larry Johnson says in the book "Frozen: My Journey Into the World of Cryonics, Deception and Death" that he watched an... more »