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Please listen with care. 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.

She wandered into the back of Sunset

Sunset funeral home where the embalming took place.

I remember one day going into the prep room and I can't even remember why,

but I opened the freezer door.

And the bodies, there were so many bodies they were stacked on the

shells where they were supposed to be and then they were just kind of pile together on a

cup of gurnings in the middle some of them had sheets over them, some of them didn't. Some

them were actually laying flat, some of them looked like they had just been thrown in.

Bodies in a funeral home, that's normal, right? But not thrown in in.

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