Cover Up is een serie onderzoeksverhalen die ons meenemen op een reis naar een wereld van uitvluchten en geheimhouding – een wereld waar de waarheid verborgen is onder een deken van leugens. Van corrupte individuen tot clandestiene instellingen: Cover Up legt bedrog, bedrog en machtsmisbruik bloot.
Acht jaar lang leidde Megan Hess Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in het kleine stadje Montrose, Colorado. Ze beloofde klanten kortingen op normaal dure crematies, een schijnbare vriendelijkheid in een stad waar velen arm zijn. Maar achter in het uitvaartcentrum was Megans bejaarde moeder Shirley bezig de doden in stukken te hakken. En toen verkocht Megan de lichaamsdelen – hoofden, rompen, benen – aan bedrijven die beweren medisch onderzoek te doen.
De families die Megan vertrouwden, hadden geen idee wat ze werkelijk van plan was. Toen ze de as van hun dierbaren kwamen ophalen, kregen ze in plaats daarvan een mengsel van as van verschillende mensen. Ze hadden geen idee van hun verraad totdat sommigen een vreemd telefoontje kregen van de FBI.
Megan en Shirley waren lichaamsmakelaars, die handelden via een donker netwerk waar mensen lichamen kopen en verkopen. Waar waren de twee vrouwen precies op uit? Wie kocht die gestolen lichamen werkelijk, en waarom?
For eight years, Megan Hess ran Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in the small town of Montrose, Colorado. She promised clients discounts on normally expensive cremations, a seeming kindness in a town where many are poor. But in the back of the funeral home, Megan’s elderly mother Shirley was actually dismembering the dead. And then Megan was selling the body parts – heads, torsos, legs – to companies that claim to do medical research.
The families who trusted Megan –- they had no idea what she was really up to. When they came to pick up the ashes of their loved ones, they instead received a mixture of ashes of various people. They had no idea of their betrayal until some received a strange phonecall from the FBI.
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?
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What would you do if someone you knew turned out to be a serial killer?
In the 1970s, Steve Fishman was an intern at his local newspaper. One day, he hitched a ride back home from Boston with a kind stranger who graciously picked him up and dropped him off at his destination. What Steve didn’t know however, was that this stranger was hiding a dark secret: by the time he picked up Steve, he had already killed three people – all hitchhikers.
But this fateful ride was just the beginning of Steve’s story. While this may have been the first time Steve met the man he’d come to know as Red, it wouldn’t be the last…
Featuring exclusive interviews and never-before-heard tapes, join Steve as he tells his chilling story for the first time and unravels the lingering questions surrounding this wild chapter of his life. Why did Steve get spared by the killer during their first meeting? And what could have possibly driven Steve back to the same killer he had just escaped? Find out on Smoke Screen: My Friend, the Serial Killer – available now wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribers to The Binge can listen to all episodes right now, completely ad-free.
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