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Cover Up: 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 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...
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4.5 stars from 59 ratings
Old Montrose Resident
I use to live in Montrose for 3 years & this story is WILD! Yes it’s a small town, yes everyone is nice to you, yes it’s a small community, & I loved it for the time I was there. As I thought more & more about staying there forever I couldn’t, something just always seemed off.
Ari G 2021 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 11/15/24
Very good podcast
Really good reporting - horrific story :\
Natstan03 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 10/16/24
It’s NOT Mont Rose!!
Every time she said Mont Rose it drove me nuts! Why mispronounce the name if the town? 8 episodes of mispronunciation!
BeachyYo via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 10/13/24
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