Postmortem, Ep. 3: The collectors

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True Crime, Missing, Mystery, Boston, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Who are the people buying this stuff anyway? People who collect human remains don’t see it as gross. In fact, these collectors connect and communicate openly on social media. In Episode 3 of Postmortem: The Stolen Bodies of Harvard, reporter Ally Jarmanning meets Jeremy Pauley, the Pennsylvania man with a tattooed eye whose arrest unravels this whole case.

Jarmanning dines in the home of a Delaware couple with a house full of skeletons; they call themselves “rescuers” of human remains.

And she introduces us to Mike Drake, a New York City collector. Through all these conversations, it becomes clear: There's no solid ethical line in this world of remains collectors; everyone is making up their own rules.

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0:00.0	Must remember do not forget
0:08.0	remind me to bring photo ID
0:11.0	reminder set babe can you make sure I don't forget Photo ID. Reminder, set.
0:13.0	Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote?
0:17.0	All right, love.
0:20.0	However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May.
0:24.1	Find out more at Electoralcommission.org. UK slash voter ID.
0:28.9	A heads up. This episode can get graphic at times. We're talking about dead bodies here.
0:36.2	Take care while listening.
0:38.8	W-B-U-R Podcasts, Boston. Boston.
0:44.0	Oh, man,
0:48.0	Oh, man, I'm in the car for a long time.
0:54.0	I'm in rural Northeastern Pennsylvania, just over the New York border.
0:58.0	I took my exit off the highway almost an hour ago
1:01.0	and I'm still not at my destination yet. I'm passing old houses and
1:05.4	farms and not much else. I thought there would be like a gas station or a convenience store or something when I got up the highway so I could pee but
1:15.2	there is not.
1:17.0	I have a full bladder and some nerves because I'm on my way to knock on the door of a
1:21.7	guy named Jeremy Pau Polly. I want to talk to Jeremy
1:25.6	Polly because it was his arrest that set so much in motion. The investigation into
1:31.6	him exposed Harvard and Cedric Lodge.
1:35.0	Without Jeremy, I'm not sure these crimes would have ever come to light.
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