Body Brokers I 4. Body Snatchers

The Conspiracy Tapes

Sony Music

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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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. 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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0:00.0	Campside Media.
0:03.0	The Bench.
0:10.0	This show contains graphic content that may be difficult for some listeners.
0:17.0	Please listen with care.
0:20.0	Stealing bodies and selling them is hardly a new thing. Body snatching has been
0:26.4	documented as far back as the 1700s and it's captured the public imagination for generations.
0:34.0	Eddenbro, 1828.
0:37.0	This is wrong.
0:38.0	What do you do for a living?
0:40.0	In surgical supplies.
0:41.0	This is from a silly movie that came out in 2010. It's set 200 years ago in
0:47.2	Scotland and it's full of lewd jokes about dead bodies and slapstick humor.
0:52.4	Showtime!
0:53.2	Is she dead?
0:58.2	Yeah, she snuffed it.
0:59.2	These bumbling guys, William Burke and William Hare are played by famous British comic actors
1:05.1	Simon Peg and Andy Circus. Burke and Hare were real historical figures who
1:10.4	became notorious for their line of work.
1:14.0	They were selling corpses to a surgeon named Dr. Robert Knox.
1:19.0	Dr. Knox was a medical rock star of his era.
1:22.0	He needed bodies to practice on at his anatomy
1:24.8	school, so he struck up an arrangement with Birken Hare. Each time they
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