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Terror Bites: Bite Sized True Crime

The House of Rot

Terror Bites: Bite Sized True Crime

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Unsolved Mysteries, Criminal Cases, Chilling Crime Stories, History, Society & Culture, Suspense, Mystery Podcast, Spooky Stories, Serial Killers, True Crime Podcast, Cold Cases, Bite-sized Crime, Horror Podcast, Kidnappings, Short True Crime Stories, Murders, Documentary, True Crime, Disappearances

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

When grieving families trusted Michael and Kathleen Coudriet to cremate their loved ones, they had no idea the bodies would never leave the house. What started as a “compassionate, affordable” funeral service turned into something far more sinister—a horror show of rotting corpses, fake ashes, and a house of unimaginable decay.

By the time police forced their way inside, the Coudriets’ suburban home was filled with bodies, some melting into the floors, others wrapped in plastic like a macabre collection. The most chilling part? Many of these families had already held funerals, burying urns filled with fireplace soot instead of their loved ones’ remains.

How did they get away with this for so long? And what kind of mindset allows someone to hoard the dead like forgotten junk? Join Terror Bites as we uncover one of the most disturbing funeral home frauds in modern history—a case where death wasn’t the end, but just the beginning of the nightmare.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Terabytes, the True Crime Podcast, where the stories are dark, the laughs are twisted,

0:14.7

and the terror, well, it's real. I'm your host, and this where we dive into the most bizarre, chilling and downright weird

0:24.3

true crime stories you've never heard.

0:26.9

Make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss a single second of the madness.

0:33.5

The summer of 2019 was sweltering in Westchester, Pennsylvania.

0:39.0

But nothing could have prepared local authorities for the horrors hidden inside the home of Michael and Kathleen Kutriere.

0:47.8

When a horrific stench started leaking from their suburban house,

0:53.3

neighbors assumed it was spoiled garbage,

0:56.4

or maybe a dead raccoon under the porch.

1:00.0

But as the days passed, the smell grew worse.

1:05.5

Thick, putrid, inescapable.

1:10.3

Flies swarmed the windows, and the mail piled up.

1:14.6

By the time police arrived for a welfare check, the smell hit them like a wall of death.

1:21.6

Officers gagged as they forced their way inside.

1:26.6

What they found was something straight out of a nightmare,

1:31.3

rotting corpses,

1:33.3

stacked like firewood,

1:35.3

eight human bodies,

1:37.3

piled in different rooms,

1:40.3

wrapped in plastic,

1:43.3

some partially mummified.

1:47.0

The remains had been there for months, their decomposed flesh,

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