Introducing Cover Up Season 3: Body Brokers

The Conspiracy Tapes

Sony Music

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

For eight years, Megan Hess ran Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in the small town of Montrose, Colorado. She promised clients discounts on normally expensive cremations, a seeming kindness in a town where many are poor. But in the back of the funeral home, Megan’s elderly mother Shirley was actually dismembering the dead. And then Megan was selling the body parts – heads, torsos, legs – to companies that claim to do medical research. The families who trusted Megan –- they had no idea what she was really up to. When they came to pick up the ashes of their loved ones, they instead received a mixture of ashes of various people. They had no idea of their betrayal until some received a strange phonecall from the FBI. Megan and Shirley were body brokers, trading on a dark network where people buy and sell bodies. What exactly were the two women after? Who was really buying those stolen bodies, and why? Subscribe now to unlock all shows on The Binge and you’ll be the first to access Cover Up: Body Brokers as soon as it drops on January 2, 2024. A Campside Media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There was something off about that place.
0:03.0	It's just I knew in every fiber of my being that something was off.
0:08.0	When we figured out what was going on,
0:11.0	it was truly a house of horse.
0:14.1	In a small town in Colorado,
0:16.7	people trusted a family-run funeral home
0:19.9	in their deepest moments of loss.
0:22.3	Run by a mother and daughter team, the funeral home offered
0:26.0	thoughtful services at a fair price. But there was a dark side to their business.
0:34.0	It didn't click.
0:35.0	It didn't register with me that they were dismembering people.
0:40.0	People call her the Montrose Butcher.
0:42.0	She is such a crook.
0:43.6	It's so greedy.
0:44.8	This wasn't just about money.
0:46.4	These people were sociopaths.
0:49.1	The mother and daughter were actually running a shocking scheme.
0:53.0	They'd use discounts on cremations to lure their victims in the front door
0:58.0	only to sell their bodies out the back.
1:02.0	The level of callousness to do that, to steal a body,
1:06.7	and then charge them for it on top of it.
1:08.8	That is a whole other level.
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