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.
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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
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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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