Body Brokers
For eight years, Megan Hess ran Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, Colorado, offering discounted cremations. In reality, she and her mother Shirley were dismembering the dead and selling body parts to medical research companies. Families unknowingly received mixed ashes of multiple people. The scheme was uncovered when the FBI contacted victims. This true crime podcast is part of The Binge series.
Episodes
My Mother's Lies: Did She Frame an Innocent Man?
Jessica Currin was murdered in a quiet Kentucky town in the summer of 2000. Local housewife Susan Galbreath became instrumental in solving the case, working alongside law enforcement to help convict Quincy Cross. Sentenced to life, he remains in prison today.
For years, the story seemed settled. Justice had been served.
But when Susan's son Ray inherits a box of his mother’s files, everythin
Introducing: Body Brokers
For eight years, Megan Hess ran Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in the small town of Montrose, Colorado. She promised clients discounts on normally expensive cremations, a seeming kindness in a town where many are poor. But in the back of the funeral home, Megan’s elderly mother Shirley was actually dismembering the dead. And then Megan was selling the body parts – heads, torsos, legs – to companies that
The Funeral Director
Small town funeral director Megan Hess is so involved in her community, so generous and compassionate to grieving families. But one of her employees starts to suspect things are not as Megan claims.
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