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Speaker 1: Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan as a former death investigator.

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Speaker 1: There's any number of names I've been called over the years.

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Speaker 1: I think that people have a real discomfort with death.

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Speaker 1: They have a real discomfort around things involving the dead,

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Speaker 1: and it's almost comical many times. I guess the first

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Speaker 1: one I remember is, Hey, you're just like Quincy. And

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Speaker 1: to bring it up to more modern times, probably Dexter.

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Speaker 1: People will refer to me as Dexter. Hey, you're just

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Speaker 1: like Dexter, And of course I always say no, I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a serial killer. But traditionally, I guess the

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Speaker 1: one thing that people have me with, because it's that

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Speaker 1: imagery that comes to mind, is the grim Reaper. That's

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Speaker 1: pretty horrible in and of itself you think about it. Today,

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about a man that actually rode

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Speaker 1: around in a car and he worked for very prestigious institution.

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Speaker 1: And the car that he wrote around in it had

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Speaker 1: a vanity plate. And on that vanity plate where the

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Speaker 1: letters g R I M DASH are. Now, I don't

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Speaker 1: know what that means to you, but it sounds suspiciously

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Speaker 1: like the Reaper himself. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this

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Speaker 1: is Bodybacks. Dave. We were talking about names just a

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Speaker 1: while ago, and isn't it interesting when you get involved

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Speaker 1: in whatever your career track is, there are some monikers

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Speaker 1: I guess that are hung on you. Maybe people forget

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Speaker 1: your name. I don't know. Did people ever refer to

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Speaker 2: Still you get called all kinds of things. And I've

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Speaker 2: wondered that about you, because when I explain who you are,

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Speaker 2: most of them already know who you are because they've

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Speaker 2: seen you on TV over the last ten to fifteen years,

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Speaker 2: so they know you do something with criminal stuff. And

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Speaker 2: then when I try to explain he's a professor, try

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Speaker 2: to lay it all out there, and ultimately it comes

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Speaker 2: back to the dude deals with bones in DNA, and

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Speaker 2: I don't really know how to explain it. But these

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Speaker 2: people that we're going to be talking about today, and

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Speaker 2: I see people because we've got to start with one.

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Speaker 2: But boy, what is it? Scratch a liar? Find a thief?

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Speaker 1: You know, I've never heard that before. Really, I've heard

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Speaker 1: about pulling the thread on the sweater and the whole

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Speaker 1: thing comes unraveled. But scratch, give it to him again.

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Speaker 2: Scratch a liar, Find a thief.

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Speaker 1: Scratch a liar, Find a thief. Wow, okay, I'm following

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Speaker 1: that one away. I hope you don't have that copyright.

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Speaker 2: I got it from Ray, the movie about Ray Charles.

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Speaker 1: Oh, holy smokes. Okay, well there you go.

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Speaker 2: But bottom lining it, this goes to the heart and

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Speaker 2: soul of human beings and how we treat people when

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Speaker 2: they're alive and when they're dead, and the efforts we

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Speaker 2: go to be respectful. What we're going to be talking

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Speaker 2: about today, if nothing else, is the most disrespectful thing

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Speaker 2: I can think of happening to somebody without their family

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Speaker 2: knowing or anybody else. It's a story I didn't think

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Speaker 2: I would ever see, Joe. I'm going to be honest

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Speaker 2: with you. I know, crazy stuff happens. But when you

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Speaker 2: start mentioning Harvard, I tend to on the level goes up.

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Speaker 1: How do you measure respect for the dead? On an

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Speaker 1: interesting little side, there was a story that came out

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Speaker 1: and her family had owned this mortuary for years and years.

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Speaker 1: But there was this old gentleman that she regarded in

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Speaker 2: In this particular case. This is where the the FBI.

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Speaker 2: When the FBI does a raid, oftentimes the search warrant

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Speaker 2: is always very specific as to what they're after. In particular,

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Speaker 2: to raid his place. Now he is a man who

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Speaker 2: has a little bit of a record. I don't want

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Speaker 2: to dismiss it, but he did have past history with

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Speaker 2: When the FBI or local authorities think you are a

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Speaker 2: mister James not in Bullock County, Kentucky, and what they

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Speaker 2: find forty human skulls. But that's not all. They find

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Speaker 2: spinal cords that are being used as decorations. They find

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Speaker 2: femurs and hip bones. And I don't know because I've

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Speaker 2: never handled these, but Joe Scott Morgan, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: be willing to bet that femurs from a bone standpoint

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Speaker 1: if you're thinking about those, they're very robust. They're spinal cords.

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Speaker 1: Make no mistake. I love to travel, truly do I

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Speaker 1: value it more than just about anything else. I mean,

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Speaker 1: But if you're talking about a big, fancy house and

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Speaker 1: And there's a couple of places I've always want to

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Speaker 1: But here's what I can't imagine. Dave. You're a FBI

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking they were just glad that he didn't look

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Speaker 2: And b if it's not illegal.

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Speaker 1: Why listen? No offense to Bullock County, Kentucky. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: it's a lovely place. I would I'd go visit Bullock County, Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: But you're talking about one man in this location, this

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Speaker 1: James Knot, that has been identified by the FBI, and

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Speaker 1: he's got all of these remains that are inside of

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Speaker 1: he trafficking in human remains? I don't know. It seems

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Speaker 1: they found a lot of weapons in there. But what's

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Speaker 2: Day you mentioned one of the skulls being on or

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Speaker 2: I don't think I could handle it. But what they

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, that's what they're referred to US.

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Speaker 1: You talk about putting two and two together, you begin

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Speaker 2: Dave, and I wanted to know from you, Joe, when

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Speaker 1: Skulls with skulls in particular, when you're talking about a

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Speaker 1: when I say the dissections are extensive, and you want

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Speaker 1: There's no other way to get the brain out, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I know that as we move forward, I don't want

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Speaker 1: Well here's the thing, Dave, there's a certain level of

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Speaker 1: That's an excellent question because you know, now you're getting

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Speaker 1: that how Harvard kind of weaves its way into this

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Speaker 1: whole drama. There was a fellow by the name of

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Speaker 1: Cecil Lodge who's formerly he headed up the Harvard Medical

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Speaker 1: School Anatomical Gift program. So there's your point of contact.

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Speaker 1: And what was happening apparently was Lodge has been allegedly

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Speaker 1: using I don't want to say Facebook marketplace, but he's

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Speaker 1: been utilizing Facebook as a way to broker human remains

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Speaker 1: and individuals that are tied into here. You've got this

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Speaker 1: fellow in Pennsylvania that's brokering or that the remains are

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Speaker 1: coming to them. There's an individual in Arkansas that is

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Speaker 1: a funeral director. They're acquiring things. They're acquiring things like

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Speaker 1: skin dissected out, hands, feet, all these sorts of things

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Speaker 1: that you normally use so that people can do detailed dissections.

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Speaker 1: Let me kind of explain to you how this works,

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Speaker 1: because I think a lot of folks might believe that

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Speaker 1: when a body is used by medical school to teach

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Speaker 1: gross anatomy. They're going to take that body and keep

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Speaker 1: it stored forever and ever. Amen, That's not what happens.

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Speaker 1: Here's how the process goes. So let's just say the

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Speaker 1: Cecil Lodge fellow has a body that is donated to

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Speaker 1: Harvard Medical School. And I'm sure that there are many

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Speaker 1: alumni that have donated their body, particularly those that came

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Speaker 1: through the medical school. And let's face it, Dave, those

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Speaker 1: are very powerful people. Can you imagine. So an individual says, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I want my dad's body, my mom's body to go

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Speaker 1: to Harvard Medical School. It was their wish. Maybe the

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Speaker 1: individual before they passed on signed an agreement making their

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Speaker 1: body an anatomical gift. Well, Lodge takes the body. It

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Speaker 1: will actually pass before the medical school students, the incoming freshmen,

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Speaker 1: well I say incoming freshmen, and they're not referred to

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Speaker 1: as freshmen, they refer to as first years. And that's

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Speaker 1: when you take gross anatomy in medical school. That first

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Speaker 1: year you got started the baseline here and they do

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Speaker 1: their dissection. There might be two or three of these

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Speaker 1: students on one body, working as a team, and they'll

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Speaker 1: work with this body, perhaps through an entire semester and

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Speaker 1: in some cases through an entire year. Well, what happens

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Speaker 1: to the body after that? Do they go and have

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Speaker 1: a funeral service? No. Most of the time those bodies

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Speaker 1: are then taken to a facility where there's a standing

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Speaker 1: agreement where those bodies will then be cremated. That's not

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Speaker 1: what happened. So after these bodies would have gone through

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Speaker 1: these detailed dissections at Harvard, apparently things changed. They weren't

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Speaker 1: going out to be cremated. These bodies were being retained,

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Speaker 1: and allegedly what has happened is that parts of these

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Speaker 1: bodies were being broken to individuals that Lodge has allegedly

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Speaker 1: been networked with throughout the country. It goes out to

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Speaker 1: these individuals, and then these individuals have people that are

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Speaker 1: interested in purchasing interesting souvenirs body parts, skulls, spinal columns,

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Speaker 1: a pelvis, a thigh bone, or femur, anything that just

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Speaker 1: kind of peaks their interest. There are people that will

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Speaker 1: take the small elements of a hand, for instance, say

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Speaker 1: the digits off of a finger, and make necklaces out

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Speaker 1: of these things. There are people that make human teeth

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Speaker 1: necklaces out of these things. Most of the time it

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Speaker 1: doesn't happen here in the US. But if that's where

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Speaker 1: your imagination runs to, it's being fueled by these individuals

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Speaker 1: that participate in this kind of behavior.

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Speaker 2: We have people that we trust with the last vet.

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Speaker 2: This is my mom, you know, this is my dad,

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Speaker 2: this is my wife, and you're at the funeral home

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Speaker 2: at my emotionally weakest moment. Maybe we have decided to

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Speaker 2: do cremation. I expect this to be all of my

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Speaker 2: loved one. I don't expect for you. You're already charging

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Speaker 2: me a bundle to do this job, and now you're

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Speaker 2: gonna take my mom's skull and sell it to some

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Speaker 2: guy so he can make a vase out of it

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Speaker 2: in Kentucky. No, here's what we actually have. We have

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Speaker 2: James Knot at the forty Skullman. We have the Pennsylvania guy,

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Speaker 2: Jeremy Pauley. We have the head of the Harvard, the

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Speaker 2: former More guy at Harvard, this whole and Candace Chapman

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Speaker 2: out of Little Rock. All of these people playing a

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Speaker 2: role in taking body parts that were not intended to

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Speaker 2: be a lamp and they're moving them around the country.

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Speaker 2: And it's not just small, It's not just Joe Scott

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Speaker 2: and Dave needing a femur for a lucky stick. This

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Speaker 2: is a whole big thing using social media to reach

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Speaker 2: other like minded individuals, to create these trophies, these things,

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Speaker 2: and to move them around the country. It's a big group.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. And to this day there are essentially

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Speaker 1: mister Lodge along with his wife Denise, who is also

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Speaker 1: involved in this. There are five other people that you've named.

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Speaker 1: They have only been charged at this point Tom and

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Speaker 1: not convicted. And right now we're going to wait and

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Speaker 1: see what happens with this case because it's going to

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Speaker 1: impact i think Dave in the long run, it's going

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Speaker 1: to impact policy as it applies to all of these

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Speaker 1: other groups, all of these people that you allow into

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Speaker 1: that circle within the anatomical gift environment and within mortuaries

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Speaker 1: that are trusted with taking care of the dead, but

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Speaker 1: more importantly taking care of their memories and their families.

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Speaker 1: I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Bodybacks