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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He told each of them a different story: billionaire’s son, crypto genius, tech founder. None of it was true.
From the outside, Ken was everything—successful, charming, generous. But when the women he deceived compared notes, they uncovered something far more sinister: a scam that stretched from Los Angeles to Italy, a man who kept reinventing himself, and a mystery no one had fully solved. Now, they’re fighting back. And the search to uncover the real Ken is on.
From the same team that brought you Body Brokers, comes Catch Me If You Ken, the latest true crime series to drop on The Binge Channel.
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