Ashley Fantz

You can't find the cremains of my husband who was just taken here several days ago. So the daughter of this elderly woman who did not live in Montrose, Colorado, she lived in California. So this mother called her daughter and the daughter was like, there's something really wrong here. They can't find my stepfather's cremains? What's up with that? So...

That woman called Megan and had a disturbing, what she thought was a very disturbing conversation with Megan, where Megan just sort of talked over her, was rude to her. Oh, we got it all together. Oh, yeah, I found him. We put him in the safe. Well, why did you put him in the safe? What would be the reason to put him in the safe?

That woman called Megan and had a disturbing, what she thought was a very disturbing conversation with Megan, where Megan just sort of talked over her, was rude to her. Oh, we got it all together. Oh, yeah, I found him. We put him in the safe. Well, why did you put him in the safe? What would be the reason to put him in the safe?

That woman called Megan and had a disturbing, what she thought was a very disturbing conversation with Megan, where Megan just sort of talked over her, was rude to her. Oh, we got it all together. Oh, yeah, I found him. We put him in the safe. Well, why did you put him in the safe? What would be the reason to put him in the safe?

So it was through the questioning of this woman that things started to sort of gel a little bit. But it would have ended there were it not for a Reuters investigative reporter who had already been working on a big project at Reuters about body brokering. And he is actually the one who started sniffing around the funeral home and what was going on there.

So it was through the questioning of this woman that things started to sort of gel a little bit. But it would have ended there were it not for a Reuters investigative reporter who had already been working on a big project at Reuters about body brokering. And he is actually the one who started sniffing around the funeral home and what was going on there.

So it was through the questioning of this woman that things started to sort of gel a little bit. But it would have ended there were it not for a Reuters investigative reporter who had already been working on a big project at Reuters about body brokering. And he is actually the one who started sniffing around the funeral home and what was going on there.

And he entered stage left and heard through various other people that this woman couldn't find her husband's cremains, called the daughter and was like, look, we will pay to have, eventually they were given some ashes. We will pay to have those ashes you were given tested to see what they are. Like a DNA test. Like a DNA test or to test these ashes.

And he entered stage left and heard through various other people that this woman couldn't find her husband's cremains, called the daughter and was like, look, we will pay to have, eventually they were given some ashes. We will pay to have those ashes you were given tested to see what they are. Like a DNA test. Like a DNA test or to test these ashes.

And he entered stage left and heard through various other people that this woman couldn't find her husband's cremains, called the daughter and was like, look, we will pay to have, eventually they were given some ashes. We will pay to have those ashes you were given tested to see what they are. Like a DNA test. Like a DNA test or to test these ashes.

And it turns out that it definitely wasn't that man. It was a mixture of a variety of cremains. There were watch parts, like trash. There was trash in the, like, burned trash in the cremains. So the Reuters reporter just kept digging and digging and digging. And he ended up having a conversation with an FBI agent who's in our podcast who handles a dragnet of cases like this.

And it turns out that it definitely wasn't that man. It was a mixture of a variety of cremains. There were watch parts, like trash. There was trash in the, like, burned trash in the cremains. So the Reuters reporter just kept digging and digging and digging. And he ended up having a conversation with an FBI agent who's in our podcast who handles a dragnet of cases like this.

And it turns out that it definitely wasn't that man. It was a mixture of a variety of cremains. There were watch parts, like trash. There was trash in the, like, burned trash in the cremains. So the Reuters reporter just kept digging and digging and digging. And he ended up having a conversation with an FBI agent who's in our podcast who handles a dragnet of cases like this.

And so that's a lot of moving parts, Vanessa. Sorry to make this complicated, but that's kind of when the walls started coming in on Megan.

And so that's a lot of moving parts, Vanessa. Sorry to make this complicated, but that's kind of when the walls started coming in on Megan.

And so that's a lot of moving parts, Vanessa. Sorry to make this complicated, but that's kind of when the walls started coming in on Megan.

Well, there is a search warrant that served on the funeral home. And this was in February of 2018. Megan's at the funeral home. FBI comes in. We all like to call serving of a search warrant a raid. So maybe for shorthand, we'll call it an FBI raid. So they go in and they, you know, get all documents that they can possibly get, and they start to build a case.

Well, there is a search warrant that served on the funeral home. And this was in February of 2018. Megan's at the funeral home. FBI comes in. We all like to call serving of a search warrant a raid. So maybe for shorthand, we'll call it an FBI raid. So they go in and they, you know, get all documents that they can possibly get, and they start to build a case.

Well, there is a search warrant that served on the funeral home. And this was in February of 2018. Megan's at the funeral home. FBI comes in. We all like to call serving of a search warrant a raid. So maybe for shorthand, we'll call it an FBI raid. So they go in and they, you know, get all documents that they can possibly get, and they start to build a case.

Well, building a case takes a long, long time. And they perpetrated this crime for nearly a decade. And so there were close to 500 families were victimized. So imagine the task that the FBI had ahead of them in contacting people. And so what do you say when you get someone's voicemail? Well, some of the voicemails that were left for...