AUSTIN -- A San Marcos football player's body parts were returned to a mortuary in boxes. That's after the American Red Cross and an eye bank couldn't guarantee to relatives that tissues wouldn't be sold for profit.

San Marcos High School football star Joshua Roberts died in a car wreck July 3 near Brady. The 17-year-old player's heart, corneas and some of his bones were removed to be used for transplants. But the Red Cross and Western Texas Lions Eye Bank Alliance couldn't assure how they'd be used.

His father, Rick Roberts said his son's corneas were packed in a preserving solution, then shipped in a packing container. He found his son's femurs, kneecaps, hip bones and shoulder blades in a cooler filled with dry ice. His son's heart was in a jar.

Roberts tells the Austin American-Statesman that his son had -- in his words -- "been deboned like a piece of sausage.''