84. The Body Broker (Megan Hess)

Swindled

A Concerned Citizen

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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A funeral director in a small town in Colorado is accused of selling human body parts. Prelude: A raid on Arthur Rathburn's body brokering business in Detroit leads to arrests in Phoenix and Chicago. –––-–---------------------------------------- BECOME A VALUEDLISTENER™ Spotify Apple Podcasts Patreon –––-–---------------------------------------- DONATE: SwindledPodcast.com/Support CONSUME: SwindledPodcast.com/Shop WATCH: SwindledVideo.com –––-–---------------------------------------- MUSIC: Deformr.com –––-–---------------------------------------- FOLLOW: SwindledPodcast.com Instagram.com/SwindledPodcast Twitter.com/SwindledPodcast Facebook.com/SwindledPodcast Thanks for listening. :-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.0	It may not be the kind of story that will bring holiday cheer.
1:17.0	But today hundreds of families probably had no idea. Their loved ones and their bodies were cut up, sold and yes even rented out of this shabby warehouse in Detroit.
1:27.0	In February 2012, cargo handlers at Detroit Metro Airport made a gruesome discovery.
1:35.0	Garbage bags containing eight freshly severed human heads were found inside blood filled to ice coolers, leaking onto the floor of a delta plane.
1:44.0	According to the paperwork, the cargo was legitimate.
1:47.0	The heads were returning from some kind of medical symposium in Israel back to their owner, a man named Arthur Rathburn, a body broker in Detroit who rented and sold human corpses and body parts to whoever needed one.
2:00.0	Usually medical schools, law enforcement agencies and universities.
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