Body Brokers | 2. "Cactus, Is It You?"

The Conspiracy Tapes

Sony Music

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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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. Unlock all episodes of Cover Up: Body Brokers, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click ‘Subscribe’ on the top of the Cover Up: Body Brokers show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:54.8	podcast I learned about a guy who was larger than life, a sort of modern day
0:59.8	renaissance man who wrote short stories and also wrote Bulls. His name was Gerald
1:05.9	Holland back but as a young man he'd gotten a memorable nickname. While serving in
1:11.4	the Marines, his fellow Marines thought he was rather prickly.
1:15.0	Plus his figure was sort of burly and stout.
1:19.0	So they started calling him cactus, and it just stuck.
1:26.2	Cactus married a woman named Shirley May.
1:28.4	She had two young daughters from a previous marriage.
1:31.8	One of them, Diana, was really impressed by his crazy tricks.
1:37.6	His claim to fame was he could tear a phone book in half
1:42.0	with his bare hands.
1:43.4	And this was in the 60s and people used phone books.
1:46.6	And he told us girls one night,
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