What would you do if you found out the body of your loved one had been dismembered and sold for parts, without your knowledge? That’s exactly what happened at the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home.
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 urns containing ashes of their loved ones, they instead received a mixture of ashes from lots of different people. But they wouldn’t have a clue until much later, when the FBI got involved.

The scheme at Sunset Mesa changed the town of Montrose — but it also went way beyond that. 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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