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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 Nonfiction 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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    25 mins
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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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    50 mins
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Josh Murphy
Heather J. Miller
Peter McDonnell
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About the Creator and Executive Producer

Josh Murphy is a producer and creative executive with credits across audio, streaming and television. Through his company MadWest Content, Josh produced First to the Top of the World (Discovery+), Spacing Out with the Everyday Astronaut (Facebook Watch), The Piketon Family Murders (Oxygen), and Murder and Justice (Oxygen). Josh also played key roles in the development and sale of The Ultimate Surfer (ABC), Battlefish (Netflix), Days that Shaped America (History), Street Outlaws (Discovery), The Wheel (Discovery), The Hustlers (truTV), and Missing in Alaska (History), in addition to many other series, pilots and specials across broadcast, cable and streaming.

About the Writer and Executive Producer

Heather J. Miller is a seasoned writer and producer for audio, scripted and non-fiction shows like Booze Traveler, Deadliest Catch, Hell’s Kitchen, and Exposure on Hulu. She’s a voracious student of the human condition and classically trained vocalist and artist most recently seen at Los Angeles's Eli and Edythe Broad Stage. A native of Houston Texas, Heather now resides in Santa Monica, CA.

About the Creator and Writer

Peter McDonnell is a creator and writer of The New York Times bestseller Evil Has a Name, as well as Call Me God, selected as one of Audible’s Top 10 Listens of 2019, Shootout, Brooklyn North, The Riddle of Emmon Bodfish, A Devil in the Valley, and After the Fall. He’s a co-executive producer of the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary series Pandemic and the NBC documentary series The Forgotten West Memphis Three. Peter runs the audio department at XG Productions. He’s a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and has an MFA from Oregon State University, where he also taught writing. A native of St. Louis, he lives in Los Angeles.

XG Production Credits

Created by Josh Murphy
Written by Heather J. Miller with additional writing by Peter McDonnell
Executive Produced by Josh Murphy, Heather Miller, Peter McDonnell, and Andrea Bruce
Presented by Chris Phillips
Edited by Peter McDonnell and Andrea Bruce
Executive Producers for XG Productions: Spencer Gordon and Peter Clemente
* Story Producer: Mariana Clemente
Senior Producer: Francey Hakes
Production Coordinator: Sydney Sidell
Dialogue Editing, Sound Design, Mixed, and Mastered by Matt Gurgol
Produced by XG Productions

About the Performer

Chris Phillips has been voicing video and audio content for over two decades, including appearing on camera, and is frequently the trusted voice for MasterCard, eBay, Breeders’ Cup, Marriott, Apple TV, Gatorade, Olympus, Pilsner Urquell, and Miramar Films. In a previous career he was a meteorologist and part of the Kentucky Derby network broadcast.

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Very well done. Scary to see how unregulated this field is. Very upset about the justice dealt and hope for change. Feel so bad for the families and friends affected by this greed.

And then I think about all the missing people out there...

Terrifying...

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This SEEMS criminal... but maybe not. Icky but maybe not illegal. This raises some great questions.

Creepy. Absolutely Creepy!!

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The premise of this story really caught me, and the details they give aren't really too graphic- the biggest ick in the whole story was when they played a clip of one of the training tapes. I don't believe that sound will ever free itself from my head...
The narration is engaging and professional. Dialogue is well mixed and cut at the right times, and every time someone else speaks, the narrator makes sure to tell you who they are.
The information is laid out well and details are given in just the right way. They take a lot of time to emphasize the gaps in law that allowed this story to unfold, and it's unfortunate that Gore got off with the sentence that he did. This one is a fantastic ride from beginning to end and I would recommend it to any true crime lover or mortician out there.

Truly a Wild Ride

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If you like true crime and can handle gore then you’ll love this or at least find it interesting!

Woah!

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Amazing true story. If l had any plans to donate my body, l sure do not any longer. I wish the people responsible for what happened were put in a cell for the rest of their days. I can just imagine what th families of the donated bodies went through when all was revealed. Could not stop listening.

Huge eye opener / spoiler alert

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This production was very well done, with actual interviews from the investigation of BRC. As a funeral director with over 20 years of experience as well as experience as a representative of some body donation agencies, I was well aware of some of the practices and personally would not choose whole body donation for myself or my family. As stated at the end of this series, the best option, if you want to donate a body, is to set it up directly with a university ahead of the time of need. However, some people are comfortable with this type of donation, and there are legitimate agencies out there that do as they say and return the cremated remains after a time, all at no expense to the family. This may be too graphic for some audiences to listen to.

Donations are not always what they seem

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This story is fascinating and the details shocking to listen to. The story is about this facility and the operation they were running...the stories about the people themselves are completely out of place in my mind. All of the people who were taken advantage of in death and the people who meant well by putting them there only to be lied to and who now have to deal with personal pain and guilt that their loved ones were so disgracefully mistreated, can be discussed as a group. There's no need to hear about the schizophrenia and chain hanging death of this young man. It doesnt add to the story at all. Just adds a layer of depressing stories

Personal stories unnecessary

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Terrifying and graphic, but SO good. Great examples, audio clips, visuals, which were all super graphic, but really well done. A topic we do not give nearly enough attention to and yet it is something everyone deals with after a loved one passes. I would recommend this to anyone who is interested in gruesome stuff.

Extremely good

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If I could Find more books like this I would listen to Audible more I loved it!!!!

Amazing

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I love this it was so informative so graphic so clear wish I could find more like this

fantastic

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