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True Crime

Last Seen

by WBUR
True Crime

About the show

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.
A collection of mysteries about unexpected people, places and things that have all gone missing.

Latest episodes

  • 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…

  • 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…