Dead Bodies Podcast

In 2002, 339 bodies that had been sent to the Tri-State Crematory in northwest Georgia, in the US, were found dumped on the crematorium's site. This led to civil litigation and criminal prosecutions.

A series of attacks on young lovers parked at a “lovers’ lane” in Rowville, Victoria, in the 1980’s went unsolved for more than 30 years. But in 2018, cold case detectives caught up with murderer and rapist James Dobbie.

Carmen Thomas was 32 and the mother of a five year old son, when she went missing from the New Zealand suburb of Remuera in July 2010. Texts had been sent from her phone, but her car was found abandoned in Hamilton, and her bank accounts were untouched. It wasn’t long before police honed in on her estranged partner Brad Callaghan.

Sharnelle looks at the significance of new research at Sydney’s Body Farm, which shows that dead bodies actually move as they decompose.

Clementine Barnabet was a serial mass murderer in Louisiana and Texas in the 1920’s. The killing spree was initially blamed on her father, but eventually police honed in on Clementine, who confessed to involvement in 35 murders.

Jason Considine admitted to killing Ashley Phillips and dumping his body in a wheelie bin in Preston after a night of threesome sex and cannabis smoking with Considine's long-term partner, Natasha Hogan. Sharnelle recalls gruesome images filmed by news crews covering the case.

In a deadly love triangle, Yu Tung Lo manipulated her friend Daniel Duhovic into shooting dead a man he had never met - 48-year-old Paul Hogan - in May 2016. Rather than marry as they had planned, both are now serving time for murder.

Henrietta Lacks had a malignant tumor on her cervix in 1951. During her treatment, doctors removed tissue from her that contained cells unlike any they had ever seen. Henrietta died within a few months, but part of her body lives on today.

August 2018, Colorado, Christopher Watts killed his pregnant wife Shan'ann and their daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste. He then disposed of his daughters' bodies in oil tanks and buried his wife in a shallow grave at his worksite.

March 1937, a natural gas leak caused an explosion at the The London School in Texas, killing more than 295 students and teachers. It’s the third deadliest disaster in the history of Texas, and it resulted in a change to household gas supplies that affects all of us today.

Benjamin Field was found guilty of murdering 69-year-old Peter Farquhar, by drugging him and encouraging him to drink alcohol over a two-year period. He also set his sights on Farquhar’s neighbour a lonely 82-year-old named Ann Moore-Martin. Questions raised by her family led police to investigate Field over Farquhar’s death.

The remains of two young women were found in bushland east of the town of Truro in South Australia, in 1978 and 1979. After police searches, the remains of seven women were discovered in total: five at Truro, one at Wingfield, and one at Port Gawler. The women had been murdered over a two-month period in 1976–1977 by Christopher Worrell and James Miller.

We take a call from “Tina” about who does make-up on a dead body. But something is not as it seems …

American serial killer Jerry Brudos murdered at least four women in Oregon between 1968 and 1969. Brudos kept the bodies - and body parts - of his victims hidden in his home. He was a necrophile with a fetish for women's shoes and underwear, and had sexual fantasies centred around his intense hate for his mother.

We hear from Kassi who died but was brought back to life. Her experience was quite different to the usual accounts from people who say they came back from the dead.

And a message from Sharnelle, who explains why she isn’t in the Dead Bodies studio this week.

Have you ever seen a dead body? We share some of your stories, including the kids who found a “green, wrinkly crocodile” in a swampy lake, that was linked to the disappearance of a local woman.

A dead body found in a rubbish bin in Maryland in 1985 has finally been identified through genetic genealogy. The victim, Roger Kelso, had been murdered back in 1963, but his body was unidentified for years

As First Lady of Argentina, Eva Peron was loved by the working class. She died in 1952 and millions of people filed past her coffin. But there was a military coup two years later, and her body was moved multiple times over the next two decades.

Conditions at the Cantrell Funeral Home deteriorated over the years, with horrific treatment of the bodies of the dead. In August 2018 investigators entered the building and discovered rotting corpses and the remains of hundreds of people.

A naked, unconscious man found under a car in Chicago earlier this year, turned into a bizarre case of mistaken identity. Alfonso Bennett found himself declared dead, when he was very much alive.

We talk to Tamara - the daughter of a fatal work accident inspector - who herself worked as a trauma and organ donation nurse.