Last Seen

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 nationwide network of human remains trading. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Introducing “What Remains,” a special series from NHPR’s Outside/In. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"We cannot rule out the potential that your loved ones remains may have been impacted." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How should we treat the dead? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Medical schools have a dark past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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In the basement of the nation's most prestigious medical institution, something has gone terribly wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hundreds of people donated their bodies to Harvard Medical School, hoping to advance science and train the next generation of doctors. Meanwhile, prosecutors say the school's morgue manager treated it like a storefront, letting potential customers browse body parts and bringing home skin and brains to be shipped to people across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.c...

A box shows up on reporter Amory Sivertson’s doorstep. Inside are the details of a murder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WBUR and The Trace bring you a story that most Americans never learned in history class — a new podcast about the gun industry’s grip on our country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1986, 16-year-olds  Jacob Wideman and Eric Kane were rooming together on a summer camp trip to the Grand Canyon when Jacob fatally — and inexplicably — stabbed Eric. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Violation tells the story of two families bound together by an unthinkable crime. It explores America's opaque parole system and asks: How much time in prison is enough? Who gets to decide? And, when someone commits a terrible crime, what does redemption look like? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Benine's homicide is still unsolved, and Boston police haven't offered updates to the Timothee family in years. Feeling left behind, Andre searches for answers outside the U.S. justice system. The entire family is figuring out how to on living in Benine's absence, and with or without closure. This is the final episode of A Family's Peace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/...

In part two of A Family's Peace, we learn just how hard it has been for Benine's family to get any  details surrounding her death, and why. Despite the hurdles, Shannon tracks down new insights to share with Benine's family members. She also dives into a theory that has haunted Boston's Haitian community for years about who really killed Benine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoic...

Benine Timothee, a Haitian immigrant, had lived in Boston for three months when she was shot and killed in 2016. No arrests have been made. In this three-part series, investigative reporter Shannon Dooling joins Benine's family and others on their quest for truth, information and closure around what really happened to their mother, wife and friend that sad day. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

If you go out to eat right now, you’re likely to run into restaurants that are struggling because they’re missing a crucial ingredient: staff. This week, Vermont Public and Brave Little State producer Josh Crane sets out to solve the mystery of the COVID-era restaurant industry exodus, by telling the story of one Vermont diner, The Guilty Plate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoic...

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. In this episode of Last Seen, WBUR's Amanda Beland attempts to solve a culinary mystery and reveal where pâté chinois comes from and how it got that name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. This week on Last Seen, we unwrap the lost history of this manufacturing center, which is the birthplace of America's candy industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc...

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 own childhood backyard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The third season of Last Seen, coming November 2022, is a collection of personal and political mysteries from public radio storytellers that you won't want to miss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Season 2 of Last Seen just wrapped, which means it's time for a listener survey! We're so curious to find out what you, our listeners, thought about it! It would mean so much to us if you'd take just a *few* minutes to give us your honest feedback on this new version of Last Seen by filling out our survey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On his way to Hollywood, a young Black man named Winston Willis stopped in Cleveland in 1959 to shoot a little pool and walked away $35,000 richer. He used his winnings to open over two dozen businesses. Nowadays, there's no trace of his "Miracle on 105th Street." And most people in Cleveland have never heard of Winston Willis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People will tell you Richard Bento is a good actor — on and off the stage. But lately, he's been at the center of some real life dramas swirling behind the scenes, involving accusations of fraud, embezzlement, and other kinds of scams. After disappearing from one local theater, he's been known to surface and pull his stunts all over again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com...

Many prized possessions and artifacts imbued with sentimental value go missing, unintentionally. But, what about when we choose to renounce the items that mean the most to us? As arts and culture journalist Allyson McCabe discovers, getting rid of your baggage isn't quite as simple as getting rid of the bags. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When artist Alison Byrnes opened a package she had mailed to herself two years earlier, she was expecting to find a sealed box of her prints. But that's not what was inside. The United States Postal Service had made a serious mistake. Instead of artist prints, USPS delivered a little blue urn -- containing the ashes of a total stranger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/ad...