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Cover Up: Body Brokers The Binge
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4.6 • 19 Ratings
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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 claim to do medical research.
The families who trusted Megan –- they had no idea what she was really up to. When they came to pick up the ashes of their loved ones, they instead received a mixture of ashes of various people. They had no idea of their betrayal until some received a strange phonecall from the FBI.
Megan and Shirley were body brokers, trading on a dark network where people buy and sell bodies. What exactly were the two women after? Who was really buying those stolen bodies, and why?
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Body Brokers | 1. 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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Body Brokers | 2. "Cactus, Is It You?"
A widow whose husband is cremated at Megan Hess’ Sunset Mesa Funeral Home gets an odd feeling. The widow’s daughter calls Megan to confront her.
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Body Brokers | 3. Mother and Daughter
A look into Megan’s first funeral home job and her early years. Who is Shirley Koch, Megan’s mother and second-in-command at Sunset Mesa?
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Body Brokers I 4. Body Snatchers
Real life former body broker Philip Guyett takes us inside the murky world where people buy and sell body parts for money. A reporter’s questions spark an investigation into Sunset Mesa.
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Body Brokers I 5. The Donor Surgeon Speaks
The FBI comes to Sunset Mesa, and Shirley does something no one sees coming.
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Body Brokers I 6. The Results
Families discover the truth about the ashes Megan returned to them. A person close to Megan wrestles with an unfathomable betrayal.
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Customer Reviews
Guess the ending!
Where is the rest of ur story? Do people HAVE to be forced into a subscription to find out what- when- where- how does it end? Is this any way to treat people who have an interest in this subject? I have tried time and again to get to the part of discovering what is going on, but all I can get is the same part of ur story over and over( for months) and never get the ending to ur story. Why not be up front and say, “Read this happening, get interested in the people, and subscribe to find out the middle and ending of our story.” Am I doing something wrong? Confused in Cincinnati.
Wasted my time
So I listened to the first episode after hearing an ad for the show. The first episode was a little rough but a lot of time the first episodes can be. Just went to click on the second episode and they want a subscription.
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