Exposing the Shocking, Shadowy World of Body Brokering

BROKEN: Jeffrey Epstein

Sony Music

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, News

4.2 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In the small town of Montrose, Colorado - Megan Hess ran the Sunset Mesa funeral home. Known for her kindness and warmth, Megan was beloved by her customers. But behind this sweet demeanor, Megan was hiding a dark, twisted and shocking secret operation. What was going on in the back room of Sunset Mesa funeral home? Find out on this season of Cover Up: Body Brokers, listen now wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribers to The Binge can listen to all episodes of Cover Up: Body Brokers right now, completely ad-free. Catch new episodes of Cover Up: Body Brokers every week wherever you get your podcasts or subscribe to The Binge and unlock all episodes ad-free today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there listeners, I'm investigative reporter Ashley Faunts, here to tell you about my new
0:05.3	podcast Cover Up, Body Brokers. The show unravels what may be one of the most twisted criminal
0:12.4	schemes to ever be documented on a
0:14.9	podcast. We travel to the small town of Montrose, Colorado where we meet Megan
0:20.2	Hess who runs the local Sunset
0:22.9	Mesa funeral home.
0:24.5	Megan was known to be thoughtful and kind in her community.
0:28.3	She offered discounts on normally expensive cremations
0:31.8	in a town where many are poor. But Megan's smile was hiding a
0:36.4	disturbing secret operation. In the back of the funeral home, Megan's elderly mother, Shirley, was dismembering the dead
0:46.0	so that Megan could then sell the parts, heads, torsos, legs, to companies that claim to do medical research.
0:55.0	Megan and Shirley were body brokers, trading on a dark network where people buy and sell bodies.
1:03.0	What exactly were the two women after?
1:05.8	Who was really buying those stolen bodies?
1:08.7	And why?
1:10.0	And how did this twisted operation eventually come crashing down?
1:15.0	Find out on cover-up, body brokers.
1:18.1	Take a listen.
1:20.3	About 10 years ago, a woman named Charlotte Downing was working for a funeral home in Colorado.
1:26.5	The place looked homey, a low-slung ranch style house, off-white sort of stucco-looking, neatly mowed lawn.
1:35.3	Charlotte was in her late 50s, petite, energetic.
1:38.9	She didn't always go into the office,
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