Hey Witness listeners, if the Gary Devore case left you hungry for more shockingly wild true crime,

you're going to want to hear about this next one.

From the same team that brought you witnessed, Cover Up Body Brokers unravels what may be the most outrageous

and twisted criminal scheme to ever be documented on a podcast.

We travel from Hollywood, California to the small town of Montrose, Colorado, where we meet Megan Hess, who runs the

local sunset Mesa funeral home.

Megan was known to be thoughtful and kind amongst her community, offering discounts on normally

expensive cremations in a town where many are poor.

But in the shadows of kindness lurked a shocking and disturbing secret operation.

In the back of the funeral home, Megan's elderly mother Shirley was dismembering the dead bodies for Megan to then take the parts, heads, torsos, legs, to companies that claim to do medical research.

Megan and Shirley were bodybroker. that claimed to do medical research.

Megan and Shirley were body brokers, trading on a dark network where people buy and sell

human bodies.

What exactly were the two women after?

Who was really buying those stolen bodies and why?

And how did this twisted operation eventually come crashing down?

Find out on cover-up body brokers.

Take a listen.

About 10 years ago, a woman named Charlotte Downing was working for a funeral home in Colorado. The place looked homey, a low-slung

ranch style house, off-white sort of stucco-looking neatly mowed lawn.

Charlotte was in her late 50s, petite, energetic, she didn't always go into the office, but on this

day she had to get a few things done.

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