Decomposing Bodies Found Behind Hidden Door In Funeral Home: Fake Ashes Given To Families!

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The now former Pueblo County Colorado Coroner, Brian Cotter, has been replaced after an inspection of his Funeral Home found 20 decomposing bodies behind a hidden door. The bodies were supposed to have been cremated. Cotter told inspectors he gave grieving families "fake ashes". Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at Davis Mortuary in Pueblo, Colorado as well as similar cases where hundreds of bodies that were supposed to be buried or cremated ended up being desecrated while their loved ones became victims of fraud.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.00 Introduction

00:44.66 Hiding a crime behind a closed door

04:54.49 Pueblo County has a new Coroner

09:05.34 Smell of human decomposition

14:03.03 Why were the bodies not buried or cremated?

20:07.57 Somebody had to know something was wrong

25:03.44 Some families would never get over the trauma

29:48.35 Storing bodies without embalming

34:19.74 North Georgia, 300 bodies, not buried, not cremated

39:28.65 This is happening more often lately

42:36.80 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:10.0	Close doors.
0:12.3	Close doors imply that you're not welcome.
0:19.3	That perhaps something is being hidden something might be
0:26.6	being protected or in some cases they could be hiding a crime today we're going to have a discussion hiding a crime.
0:42.3	Today we're going to have a discussion about a crime. As a matter of fact, it's not just one, it's several,
0:46.3	and you can count them each individual crime
0:53.3	and apply a name to it because what we're going to
0:57.8	talk about today involves the desecration of human remains and as of this
1:05.0	recording we know of at least 20 in Pueblo, Colorado.
1:13.6	Coming to you from the beautiful campus of Jacksonville State University, I'm Joseph Scott
1:19.2	Morgan, and this is Bodybacks.
1:24.3	Dave, I'm going to throw a name out to you real quick.
1:32.6	And just imagine a day in this guy's life.
1:35.6	This guy's name is Gregory Greick.
1:37.7	And I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly.
1:38.3	All right.
1:41.5	Dr. Greik, if I'm not pronouncing it correctly, forgive me.
1:45.8	But I want to give you a tip of the cap right now. Because Gregory is, he has a doctorate as a nurse practitioner, which means he's a D&P. And, you know, he's
1:58.0	worked as a nurse practitioner for quite some time. I think he'd been a nurse for a while. And then he went back and got his D&P. And, you know, with a D&P, you can be an instructor. You know a lot about medicine. As a matter of fact, you probably know more medicine than most practicing physicians do.
2:19.2	Because so much of the onus is on all of our nurses out there and everything they have to do.
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