Last Seen
Kanal-Details
Last Seen
Season 4: "Postmortem" is a National Murrow Award winning podcast (2025) about the stolen bodies of Harvard and the gray market for human remains. Find out what happened at Harvard Medical School: how body parts were stolen and sold across the country. Who did this and why?
Neueste Episoden
39 EpisodenIntroducing: What Remains from NHPR's Outside/In
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 Phil...
Postmortem, Ep. 5: A reckoning
In Episode 5 of Postmortem: The Stolen Bodies of Harvard, reporter Ally Jarmanning digs deeper into the "legitimate" realm of body-parts collecting —...
Postmortem, Ep. 4: The anatomy lab
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 shocki...
Postmortem, Ep. 3: The collectors
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...
Postmortem, Ep. 2: The victims
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 na...
Postmortem Ep. 1: The crime
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...
TRAILER: Last Seen S4 'Postmortem': The Stolen Bodies of Harvard
Hundreds of people donated their bodies to Harvard Medical School hoping to advance science and train the next generation of doctors. Meanwhile, prose...
Last Seen presents: "Beyond All Repair," a new murder mystery podcast
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 accus...
A family's peace | Part III
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 State...
A family's peace | Part II
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 State...
A family's peace | Part I
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 State...
The Guilty Plate
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...
Chinese pie
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 Cana...
Confectioner's Row
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...
Berried treasure
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 fi...
Trailer: 'Last Seen,' Season 3
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...
Episode 10: Searching for a Miracle
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...
Episode 9: Bad Actor
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 theat...
Episode 8: The Emotional Lives of Everyday Objects
Many prized possessions and artifacts imbued with sentimental value go missing, unintentionally. But, what about when we choose to renounce the items...
Episode 7: A Most Unusual Houseguest
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 tha...
Episode 6: A Hole in the Silence
Spain has one of the highest number of forced disappearances in the world, second only to Cambodia. During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and Gener...
Episode 5: Belly Up
When three friends went on a rum-fueled rampage one night deep in the Nevada desert, they never expected the trouble they would find themselves in a w...
Episode 4: Africa’s Lost Year of Hope
In 1960, dubbed "The Year Of Africa", a pair of bold leaders fanned the flames of hope for a brighter future in the Belgian colony of Congo. But by th...
Episode 3: The Lost World
Every school kid learns that there are exactly eight planets in our solar system. But what if we told you there might be a ninth? A world that may be...
Episode 2: Out of Time
Freeports are the most expensive and secretive warehouses in the world, which now hide some of the world’s cultural treasures from the public eye.
Episode 1: Murph
In 1964, Jack Murphy, or "Murph the Surf," pulled off the biggest jewel heist in New York City history only to be caught 48 hours later.
Amory S...
Trailer: 'Last Seen,' Season 2
The new season, coming out Feb. 1, has 10 new true-crime mysteries that you don’t want to miss.
Coming in February: Things that have gone missing
WBUR’s popular true-crime podcast returns, with mysterious tales about people, places, ashes, planets, endangered species, feelings and much more.
Episode 10: 'Last Seen' Live
A behind-the-scenes conversation about how we investigated the most sensational unsolved art heist in history.
Episode 8: 'Flimflammer'
After a parallel heist gone wrong, did Brian McDevitt succeed at the Gardner Museum?
Episode 7: 'I Was The One'
Was the world's greatest art thief the inspiration, or actually the mastermind, of the Gardner heist?
Episode 6: 'Befriend And Betray'
This is a story about how to plot an art recovery, and then blow it entirely.
Episode 5: 'The Bobbys'
We trace the art's possible path from Boston to Connecticut to Philadelphia.
Episode 4: 'Two Bad Men'
Were George Reissfelder and David Turner involved in the Gardner heist?
Episode 3: 'Not A Bunch Of Jamokes'
Was the heist planned in the belly of Boston's criminal underworld operating out of a Dorchester auto body shop?
Episode 2: 'Inside Job?'
On the night of the heist, security guard Rick Abath made the critical mistake of letting the thieves into the museum. In this episode, we ask if it w...
Episode 1: '81 Minutes'
In 1990, two thieves stole 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. We take a closer look at what happened that night.
Introducing 'Last Seen'
A look into the largest unsolved art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. "Las...