DiscoverThe Perfect ScamArchive Episode: Colorado Funeral Home Body Brokering Scheme, Part 1
Archive Episode: Colorado Funeral Home Body Brokering Scheme, Part 1

Archive Episode: Colorado Funeral Home Body Brokering Scheme, Part 1

Update: 2025-08-29
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Planning a loved one’s burial or cremation is a difficult experience under the best of circumstances. When Diana’s stepfather, Cactus, gets sick during the early stages of Alzheimer’s and sees a billboard advertising simple cremations for $695 at Sunset Mesa Funeral Home, he requests that his family cremate him and not spend a lot of money. But when Cactus dies and his cremains go missing under mysterious circumstances, it sets off a series of events that not only exacerbates the family’s grief, but also tips off a lengthy investigation by Reuters journalists that rocks a small community in western Colorado and exposes the dark, unregulated side of the body trade industry. 

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Archive Episode: Colorado Funeral Home Body Brokering Scheme, Part 1

Archive Episode: Colorado Funeral Home Body Brokering Scheme, Part 1

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