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WBUR and the Boston Globe start with the 1990 Gardner Museum art theft, then later seasons take on other cases, including body parts stolen from Harvard's morgue.

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Postmortem, Update: The Sentences

December 23, 2025 · 34 min

In this update episode of Postmortem, reporter Ally Jarmanning updates us on the criminal cases against Harvard Medical School's former morgue manager Cedric Lodge, his wife Denise, and Jeremy Pauley, whose arrest first exposed the…
Postmortem, Ep. 5: A reckoning

May 1, 2024 · 29 min

In Episode 5 of Postmortem: The Stolen Bodies of Harvard, reporter Ally Jarmanning digs deeper into the "legitimate" realm of body-parts collecting ⁠— museums ⁠— and asks the burning question: How different is this from the world of Jeremy…
Postmortem, Ep. 4: The anatomy lab

May 1, 2024 · 24 min

As haunting as the Harvard morgue scandal is, you don't have to go back very far in history to find practices for sourcing bodies that would be shocking today. Reporter Ally Jarmanning finds that for more than a century, medical schools…
Postmortem, Ep. 3: The collectors

May 1, 2024 · 36 min

Who are the people buying this stuff anyway? People who collect human remains don’t see it as gross. In fact, these collectors connect and communicate openly on social media. In Episode 3 of Postmortem: The Stolen Bodies of Harvard…
Postmortem, Ep. 2: The victims

May 1, 2024 · 29 min

When news of the Harvard morgue scandal went viral, no one was hit harder than the families of people who had donated their bodies for study at the nation's most prestigious medical school. As if grieving the loss of a loved one wasn't…

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Postmortem Ep. 1: The crime

May 1, 2024 · 26 min

Hundreds of people have donated their bodies to Harvard Medical School, hoping to advance science and train the next generation of doctors. But in the basement of the nation's most prestigious medical institution, something went terribly…
TRAILER: Last Seen S4 'Postmortem': The Stolen Bodies of Harvard

April 16, 2024 · 3 min

Hundreds of people donated their bodies to Harvard Medical School hoping to advance science and train the next generation of doctors. Meanwhile, prosecutors say that for years, the school's morgue manager treated it like a storefront…
A family's peace | Part I

December 13, 2022 · 23 min

On a sunny Saturday in 2016, Benine Timothee left her house to visit a friend who lived close by and never returned. She had lived in the United States for only three months when she was shot and killed outside a corner store in Boston's…
The Guilty Plate

December 6, 2022 · 30 min

This week, we're bringing you another food-related mystery - this time from our friendly neighbors to the north, Vermont Public and Brave Little State producer Josh Crane. If you go out to eat right now, you’re likely to run into…
Chinese pie

November 29, 2022 · 32 min

Mashed potatoes, corn and ground beef. These aren't the ingredients for shepherd's pie, but for Chinese pie, a traditional and very famous French Canadian dish. WBUR producer Amanda Beland, grew up eating Chinese pie, or pâté chinois…
Confectioner's Row

November 22, 2022 · 29 min

For years, WBUR senior arts and culture reporter Andrea Shea drove by an old, mysterious factory in Cambridge, Mass. To her surprise, it turned to be the last vestige of a 20th century candy hub called Confectioner's Row. Manufacturing…
Berried treasure

November 14, 2022 · 30 min

WBUR senior arts reporter Amelia Mason is on the hunt to solve a mystery that has been haunting her for years: why are black raspberries so hard to find? The answer takes us through grocery stores, farms, foraging expeditions, and Amelia's…