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All the Gory Details

By: Josh Murphy, Heather J. Miller
Narrated by: Chris Phillips
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 Organ donation is so common and regulated, it’s specified on your driver’s license. But what does it mean to leave your remains “to science” and medical research? Who gets the body? What really happens to it? In January of 2014, an FBI and Arizona Attorney General’s Office task force conducted a search and seizure raid on Biological Resource Center, a Phoenix body brokering business that recruited families to donate their loved ones’ bodies for use in scientific research. The task force discovered the stuff of nightmares. Employees with zero medical training were conducting dissections of human bodies with DIY grade electric saws. Twelve tons of severed torsos, heads, arms, legs, feet, hands, and spines were stacked and stuffed in huge freezers and marked for sale. Without prior approval, some of the parts were being sold to the Department of Defense. All the Gory Details takes a deep dive into the shocking world of body brokering, a wild west industry that allows a handful of entrepreneurs with questionable ethics to make millions, quite literally off the backs of others. But as the task force discovers, there are hardly any laws regulating this gruesome industry. Told firsthand by the investigators at the forefront of the case, the grieving family members who donated their loved ones’ bodies under false pretenses, experts in medicine and bioethics, and with previously unreleased interrogations of the body brokers, All the Gory Details uncovers why and how this little-known segment of the massive death industry has been allowed to operate for so long with so few rules and even fewer consequences.©2021 Josh Murphy and Heather Miller (P)2021 Josh Murphy and Heather Miller Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions True Crime
Episodes
  • EPISODE 1: 40 FREEZERS

    EPISODE 1: 40 FREEZERS
    Nov 11 2021
    When the TSA searches a traveler’s leaky cooler and discovers it’s full of human heads, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office conducts a search warrant on a body parts business in Phoenix. It finds 12 tons of dissected human remains and a million questions.
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    24 mins
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  • EPISODE 2: TORN APART

    EPISODE 2: TORN APART
    Nov 11 2021
    As investigators grill the founder of Biological Resource Center (BRC), the media picks up the sensational story that law enforcement has raided a warehouse with over a hundred cut up dead bodies. The families who donated their loved ones’ bodies “to science” through BRC learn what has happened and are alarmed. Thousands of body parts are being sorted and identified. Speculation swirls about what horrors have occurred.
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  • EPISODE 3: THE GORE OF IT ALL

    EPISODE 3: THE GORE OF IT ALL
    Nov 11 2021
    Law enforcement focuses its investigation on BRC’s employees, including an idealistic young intern, as we unearth the long and sordid history of the trafficking of dead bodies. Agents struggle to determine exactly what went wrong, what laws were broken, and who is responsible. Every corner they turn seems to lead to one man, Stephen Gore.
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People are druven by greed and money, and this tells the story of real low-life criminal activity that involves people's loved ones' body parts being treated with absolute brutality even after death 😳

Listening to the family members and the people involved in finding out what body donations and body brokers are and how disgustingly barbarism used to sell off these bodies without anyone knowing the end result of a willing donar after death.

Brilliant and Shocking

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Wow! I loved this. Really interesting and completely shocking. I liked the style of the investigation and hearing the witness accounts as well as the interview with Gore. Would definitely recommend this.

So interesting and eye opening!

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Great find out about the laws of donating your body to science in the U.S. How these people
Got away with what they did is beyond me. If you want to find out how it is done from a U.K. perspective I have listened to an amazing book by Sur Black “All that remains”. She also supports Val McDermid with her scientific research for her books

Wow! Very interesting.

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very very shocking story, very sad that families went through this after the death of their loved one. Disgusting!!!

Excellent, but shocking story!

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Amazing what can go on in the world and a scary thought - a good listen

Fascinating

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