Ashley Fantz

And instead of cremating people, they were giving people a mixture of a variety of people's cremains that they kept in a Home Depot tub and were dismembering bodies and selling them. And so I was interested, although that sounds very horror show and it is very horror show. I was like, well, I started thinking, what is a body worth spiritually, monetarily? I really wanted to explore that.

Yeah, I think the important thing to keep in mind is that body brokering is legal in the United States. But it's highly unregulated. So to back up lying to your funeral clients or your cremation clients and saying that you're cremating their loved ones and giving them ashes. Meanwhile, you're actually dismembering bodies and selling body parts. That is fraud. That's illegal. Okay.

Yeah, I think the important thing to keep in mind is that body brokering is legal in the United States. But it's highly unregulated. So to back up lying to your funeral clients or your cremation clients and saying that you're cremating their loved ones and giving them ashes. Meanwhile, you're actually dismembering bodies and selling body parts. That is fraud. That's illegal. Okay.

Yeah, I think the important thing to keep in mind is that body brokering is legal in the United States. But it's highly unregulated. So to back up lying to your funeral clients or your cremation clients and saying that you're cremating their loved ones and giving them ashes. Meanwhile, you're actually dismembering bodies and selling body parts. That is fraud. That's illegal. Okay.

But the actual selling is okay. Yes. It's legal in this country. It's highly unregulated, which is why a lot of this criminality bubbles up in that world. The United States is the largest exporter of body parts to the rest of the world. And how much individual body parts are worth, an arm, a leg, a head, you're worth more in parts than you are in as a whole.

But the actual selling is okay. Yes. It's legal in this country. It's highly unregulated, which is why a lot of this criminality bubbles up in that world. The United States is the largest exporter of body parts to the rest of the world. And how much individual body parts are worth, an arm, a leg, a head, you're worth more in parts than you are in as a whole.

But the actual selling is okay. Yes. It's legal in this country. It's highly unregulated, which is why a lot of this criminality bubbles up in that world. The United States is the largest exporter of body parts to the rest of the world. And how much individual body parts are worth, an arm, a leg, a head, you're worth more in parts than you are in as a whole.

So I could sell your body, your entire body, Vanessa, to a medical device company or some other body broker who's going to sell it to someone else, or it could get sold to the DoD for explosives, experiments, or tests, I should say.

So I could sell your body, your entire body, Vanessa, to a medical device company or some other body broker who's going to sell it to someone else, or it could get sold to the DoD for explosives, experiments, or tests, I should say.

So I could sell your body, your entire body, Vanessa, to a medical device company or some other body broker who's going to sell it to someone else, or it could get sold to the DoD for explosives, experiments, or tests, I should say.

Yeah, there have been alumni of certain universities will say, okay, I want to give back to my university by donating my body after death. And so that person's assumption is this body is going to be used by the medical students to learn and perhaps find a cure, etc. But then those bodies can be resold to other places, which has happened where the DOD has purchased bodies. Wow.

Yeah, there have been alumni of certain universities will say, okay, I want to give back to my university by donating my body after death. And so that person's assumption is this body is going to be used by the medical students to learn and perhaps find a cure, etc. But then those bodies can be resold to other places, which has happened where the DOD has purchased bodies. Wow.

Yeah, there have been alumni of certain universities will say, okay, I want to give back to my university by donating my body after death. And so that person's assumption is this body is going to be used by the medical students to learn and perhaps find a cure, etc. But then those bodies can be resold to other places, which has happened where the DOD has purchased bodies. Wow.

Yeah, so this town is near Telluride, but it's nothing like Telluride. It is economically distressed, small town. So to have a daughter and mother who ran a funeral home Megan Hess, and her mother's name was Shirley. They were beloved in town.

Yeah, so this town is near Telluride, but it's nothing like Telluride. It is economically distressed, small town. So to have a daughter and mother who ran a funeral home Megan Hess, and her mother's name was Shirley. They were beloved in town.

Yeah, so this town is near Telluride, but it's nothing like Telluride. It is economically distressed, small town. So to have a daughter and mother who ran a funeral home Megan Hess, and her mother's name was Shirley. They were beloved in town.

Megan was someone who used her funeral home and an adjacent event planning space to let people who had various classic car hobby club, like, come and meet there. They were known for throwing these very thoughtful, elaborate funerals, like an elderly woman whose favorite color was pink draping the entire chapel in pink, or... You know, they put on a certain face to the community. We're a warm hug.

Megan was someone who used her funeral home and an adjacent event planning space to let people who had various classic car hobby club, like, come and meet there. They were known for throwing these very thoughtful, elaborate funerals, like an elderly woman whose favorite color was pink draping the entire chapel in pink, or... You know, they put on a certain face to the community. We're a warm hug.

Megan was someone who used her funeral home and an adjacent event planning space to let people who had various classic car hobby club, like, come and meet there. They were known for throwing these very thoughtful, elaborate funerals, like an elderly woman whose favorite color was pink draping the entire chapel in pink, or... You know, they put on a certain face to the community. We're a warm hug.

This is where you come to for Megan to reach over and put a hand on your shoulder or perhaps embrace you. Well, meanwhile, the dollar signs, cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching, are we're going to give you... everything from a variety of other people's cremains, call them your uncle or brother, and we're gonna chop up the bodies and sell them."