Carter Roy
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Podcast Appearances
Molly is already dead, and you remember what her death certificate said, syphilis.
Barry knows that if they can prove that's a lie, they can prove the whole coverup.
So he convinces the Maggia family to let him exhume Molly's body.
It's not an easy ask.
Dig up your sister's grave, but Quinta and Albina agree.
They want to clear Molly's name and they want justice.
October 15th, 1927, a gray fall day, five years after Molly's death.
A small crowd gathers at Rosedale Cemetery in Orange, New Jersey.
There's doctors, lawyers, company representatives, reporters.
When they pull up the coffin, it's waterlogged and falling apart.
They run ropes and chains underneath it.
Slowly, they raise it to the surface.
And in the dim afternoon light, even through the rotting wood, the inside of the coffin is glowing.
They take Molly's remains to a nearby funeral home.
The autopsy lasts hours.
They test every tissue sample, every bone fragment.
All of it, every piece of her is radioactive.
Her body contains 500 times the amount of radium that would later be set as a safe limit.
No syphilis, just radium.
The company's lie is exposed.