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Megan Hess, a former owner of the Colorado funeral home, Sunset Mesa, has pleaded guilty to secretly dissecting corpses and selling body parts without consent from relatives of the deceased.
Hess and her mother, Shirley Koch, launched a non-profit donor service organization in 2009. They forged dozens of body donor consent forms and sold the body parts for profit. They have both been convicted and sentenced for their crimes.
In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and special guest co-host Dave Mack discuss the purpose of funeral homes, how one decides what is done with a loved one's remains, the legal procedures for deciding what is done with bodily remains, using bodies for medical purposes, and much more.
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Show Notes:
0:00 - Intro
0:45 - Background
2:40 - What is the purpose of a funeral home?
5:05 - Gross Anatomy
5:50 - Deciding what is done with a body after death
8:10 - Donor Services and Megan Hess
13:35 - Can you tell if someone’s ashes aren’t real?
16:00 - Legal procedures for remains
18:10 - Non-transplant anatomical donation
19:30 - Jeff Peacock and finding out his parents were victims of Hess
23:40 - Body parts sold having certain diseases
25:30 - Using bodies for medical purposes
27:50 - Sentencing for Megan Hess and her mother Shirley Koch
28:30 - Wrap-up
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Former Playboy model Kelsey Turner sentenced Turner to 10 to 25 years in prison for her role in the death of Dr. Thomas Burchard. Turner is accused of killing an elderly psychiatrist, who reportedly paid her rent and gave her money. The 71-year-old renowned psychiatrist was found beat to death in the trunk of Turner’s blue Mercedes Benz. The car had been abandoned on a dirt road, according to police. Two other suspects, identified as Jon Logan Kennison and Diana Nicole Pena also charged. Turner, 29, agreed to an Alford plea, which means Turner does not have to admit guilt, but does agree there is enough prosecutorial evidence for a jury to find her guilty.
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Justin Beck is used to talking with his parents, especially his mom.
When Miriam Beck begins texting only, and not answering phone calls, Justin Beck goes to see his parents and sister to see what's wrong. Inside the home is a terrible odor and what looks like a body wrapped in a sheet.
Beck talks with his sister, Verity, for nearly 30 minutes. When the police are called, Verity Beck admits her parents, Reid and Miriam Beck, are dead. Officers discover a chainsaw and human remains in trashcans, wrapped in sheets.
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Angry family member shoots an 8-year-old boy. Mother of two gunned down while loading up her groceries.
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Hannah Pettey starts taking a new dietary supplement recommended by her chiropractor husband. The vitamins are supposed to boost her immune system but Pettey ends up at the University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital for a diagnosis and treatment.
Pettey’s diagnosis was lead poisoning. For two months, Pettey is hospitalized. The question is, however, how does an adult woman get lead poisoning?
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Mother lures her child's father to a hired gunman. Early release violates his parole within three days of freedom.
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A text from his wife makes Joseph Wilson call 911 to report that his adopted son Skyler is having a seizure. That text message, however, came in hours earlier. Jodi Wilson wrote "Something happened while swaddling Skyler." Included in the text was a picture of Skyler wrapped in a sheet, face down, and duct taped to the floor. Skyler was taken to Brenner Children's hospital where a doctor explained to a detective that Skyler had a Hypoxic Brain Injury, caused by a lack of oxygen getting to his brain. The doctor said that Skyler’s brain injuries were consistent with “too much restriction” used during the so-called “swaddling” technique.
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Mayhem ensues after a traffic stop on a stolen vehicle. Another car thief doesn't notice the child in the backseat.
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Brittany Phillips, 18, attends Florida's Eckerd College on a full chemistry scholarship her freshman year, but the homesick college student returns to Tulsa to continue her education.
Within a week, the 18-year-old is dead. Phillips was found raped and strangled inside her locked apartment. Now, a letter has been found with a postmark after the date Phillips was thought to have died, sparking new hope for an arrest.
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Body builder fights off attacker at her apartment's gym. Biker gang tensions lead to murder.
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