The Backstory: Body snatching for profit
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
They say knowledge is power. But is it more important than ethics…or law? Over the centuries, researchers' quest to understand what’s under our skin, the human anatomy, has motivated scientists—as well as money-hungry grave robbers—to become body snatchers. But more than that, it sometimes inspired murder.
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| 0:00.0 | All right think about the challenges of understanding the human body and medicine |
| 0:04.4 | after spiritual mystery took a back seat and science became the thing. There were no |
| 0:10.1 | x-rays or MRIs, not even photos. |
| 0:13.1 | So the only way to figure out how the human body worked and how to fix what wasn't working was |
| 0:18.4 | to take a look under the hood by carving up a dead body. |
| 0:22.4 | The demand for bodies was huge for centuries, and grave robbers |
| 0:26.3 | or body snatchers made a bundle by digging up fresh graves. But there was another way. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm Patty Steele. Medical research partners with |
| 0:35.8 | murder. That's next on the backstory. I'm Andrea Gunning, host of the all new |
| 0:42.0 | podcast There and Gone. |
| 0:45.5 | It's a real life story of two people who left a crowded Philadelphia bar, walked to their truck and vanished. |
| 0:53.0 | Nobody hears anything. |
| 0:55.0 | Nobody sees anything. |
| 0:56.0 | Did they run away? |
| 0:58.0 | Was it an accident or were they murdered? |
| 1:01.0 | A truck and two people just don't disappear. The FBI called it |
| 1:05.4 | murder for hire. It was definitely murder for hire for Daniel, not for Richard. |
| 1:10.5 | He's your son and in your eyes he's innocent but in my eyes he's |
| 1:15.5 | just some guy my sister was with. In this series I dig into my own investigation to |
| 1:22.2 | find answers for the families and get justice for Richard and |
| 1:27.2 | Danielle. |
| 1:31.2 | Listen to Theron Gawn South Street on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
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