Episode 7: A Most Unusual Houseguest
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When artist Alison Byrnes opened a package she had mailed to herself two years earlier, she was expecting to find a sealed box of her prints - but that's not what was inside.
The United States Postal Service had made a rather serious mistake. Instead of artist prints, USPS delivered a little blue urn -- containing the ashes of a total stranger.
Attempts at finding the family of the deceased failed, and the cremated remains of Jennings L. Heffelfinger sat abandoned and forgotten, year after year.
That is, until 2019, when intrepid reporter Sophie Bearman took over the case. Determined to solve the mystery, Bearman embarks on a personal and professional journey to get the urn back where it belongs. But how much help is too much? Amid a pandemic that forces us to ponder mortality incessantly, Episode 7 offers a refreshing and unexpected take on life and loss.
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What happened to the prints???
The people in this episode are horrible, incl the reporter. How do you come into possession of someone's ashes & not move heaven & earth to get them to the family? The reporter lives up to the worst stereotype of reporters. And at a more prosaic level, no one seemed all that interested in finding out how it happened in the first place. THAT would have made an interesting story.