From an October 7 press release by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Scottsdale, Arizona, that cryonically preserves members’ heads or bodies “with the intent of restoring good health when technology becomes available to do so.” On October 6, ABC’s Nightline investigated claims by former Alcor employee Larry Johnson about the company’s mishandling of the remains of baseball player Ted Williams. The claims appeared in Johnson’s book Frozen: My Journey into Cryonics, Deception and Death, which was published that month.

Mr. Johnson claims he witnessed Alcaor staff striking Ted Williams’s head with a wrench. Multiple documented…