This week on the Perfect Scam.

And you've already mentioned this was a small community.

There must have been very few people in that area that weren't touched by this directly in some way.

Incredibly widespread impact on the community.

There was a Facebook page created for victims of Megan Hetch, victims of Sunset Mesa.

It was called that.

And there were hundreds of people in there.

And their stories were all the same. You know, this is what she said to me.

It's what she promised and this is what I found out really happened to death.

It's incredible.

It's devastating to that comedian.

By my calculations, you know, at the low end end she may have stolen 3% of the population of mon trips.

Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan.

When we left our story, Reuters reporter Brian Grow had just discovered something really terrible is going on inside Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, a small city, and a remote part of Southwest Colorado.

He's investigating the for-profit body broker industry, a set of middle men who supply human remains to organizations for research purposes.

Grow is convinced that some bodies are being donated against their family's wishes.

His reporting has taken him to Montrose, to Sunset Mesa, and now to Shirley Hollenbeck,

who recently had her husband, Cactus, cremated at sunset mesa.

Or at least, that's what Shirley thinks happened.

Brian suspects something else happened, and he's decided to inform Shirley.

I had called her first.

And you know, part of our approach has always been complete transparency.

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