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The Body Broker

Megan Hess / Arthur Rathburn

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84: The Body Broker

A funeral director in a small town in Colorado is accused of selling human body parts.

Prelude: A raid on Arthur Rathburn’s body brokering business in Detroit leads to arrests in Phoenix and Chicago.

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