Episodes 40
Avg. Duration 33m
Activity Dormant
Apple Rating 4.6 (3,536)
Since Jul 2018
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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Weekly
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Serial
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rss.wbur.org

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About This Podcast

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

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S4E6 Postmortem, Update: The Sentences

Dec 23, 2025 33m

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…

Introducing: What Remains from NHPR's Outside/In

Jan 29, 2025 37m

Introducing “What Remains,” a special series from NHPR’s Outside/In. A classroom display of human skulls sparks a reckoning at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. A movement grows to “abolish the…

S4E5 Postmortem, Ep. 5: A reckoning

May 01, 2024 28m

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…

S4E4 Postmortem, Ep. 4: The anatomy lab

May 01, 2024 23m

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…

S4E3 Postmortem, Ep. 3: The collectors

May 01, 2024 35m

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…

S4E2 Postmortem, Ep. 2: The victims

May 01, 2024 29m

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…

S4E1 Postmortem Ep. 1: The crime

May 01, 2024 25m

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…

S4 TRAILER: Last Seen S4 'Postmortem': The Stolen Bodies of Harvard

Apr 16, 2024 2m Trailer

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…

S3 Last Seen presents: "Beyond All Repair," a new murder mystery podcast

Mar 11, 2024 25m Bonus

Introducing Beyond All Repair, a new WBUR podcast hosted by Amory Sivertson. This series tells the story of a murder, but also the woman who was accused of that murder, Sophia. Sophia was newly…

S3E7 A family's peace | Part III

Dec 27, 2022 28m

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…

S3E6 A family's peace | Part II

Dec 20, 2022 29m

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…

S3E5 A family's peace | Part I

Dec 13, 2022 23m

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…

S3E4 The Guilty Plate

Dec 06, 2022 30m

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…

S3E3 Chinese pie

Nov 29, 2022 32m

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…

S3E2 Confectioner's Row

Nov 22, 2022 28m

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…

S3E1 Berried treasure

Nov 14, 2022 30m

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,…

S3 Trailer: 'Last Seen,' Season 3

Nov 09, 2022 1m Trailer

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.

S2E10 Episode 10: Searching for a Miracle

Mar 29, 2022 55m

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…

S2E9 Episode 9: Bad Actor

Mar 22, 2022 40m

People will tell you Richard Bento is a good actor — on and off the stage. Over the past decade, he's been a pillar of the New England community theater scene - acting in and directing countless…

S2E8 Episode 8: The Emotional Lives of Everyday Objects

Mar 15, 2022 29m

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 -- like that mixtape…

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