Hey Bad Blood listeners, I'm investigative reporter Ashley Faunts here to tell you about a new podcast I'm hosting

Cover-Up body brokers if you thought the crimes of Elizabeth Holmes and her bogus blood tests were shocking and sinister,

our story takes you inside a world you've never heard of,

body brokering, where people buy and sell bodies in the name of medical science.

We travel from Silicon Valley to the small town of Motrose, Colorado, where we meet Megan Hess, who runs the local Sunset Mesa funeral home.

Megan was known to be thoughtful and kind in her community. She offered discounts on normally expensive cremations in a town where many are poor.

But Megan's smile was hiding a disturbing secret operation. In the back of the was dead bodies so that Megan could then sell the parts, heads,

torsos, legs, to companies that claim to do medical research.

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?

And how did this twisted operation eventually come crashing down?

Find out on cover-up body brokers. Take a listen. About 10 years ago, a woman named Charlotte

Downing was working for a funeral home in Colorado. The place looked homey, a low-slung ranch style house, off-white sort of stucco-looking, neatly mowed lawn.

Charlotte was in her late 50s, petite, energetic, she didn't always go into the office, but on this

day she had to get a few things done.

She wandered into the back of Sunset Mesa Funeral Home, where the embalming took place.

I remember one day going into the prep room and I can't even remember why, but I opened the

freezer door.

And the bodies, there were so many bodies, they were stacked on the shelves where they were supposed to be,

and then they were just kind of piled together

on a cup of gurnings in the middle.

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