Wholesome Mother-Daughter Funeral Home Operators Hiding a Twisted Secret

Collecting Souvenirs

"She showed me her collection of gold teeth one day," said Escher, who once managed Megan and Shirley's cremation-marketing business. Although it remains legal in most states to sell items recovered from cadavers—including gold dental work—most of the bodies belonged to individuals that were supposed to be cremated. Megan once gloated that she and Shirley had secured a remarkable $40,000 in one month just from gold fillings.

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The More You Know

  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
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