Ep 16 - The Lady Who Woke Up in The Morgue

Sharnelle has the disturbing story of a woman who woke up in refrigerated storage in the morgue. Can you bury a body in your backyard? Dee Dee looks whether a do-it-yourself burial is legal, and where you’re allowed to sprinkle cremated remains of your loved ones . Photographer Arthur Fellig’s ability to arrive at a crime scene in New York in the 1930’s and 40’s just as the cops did was so uncanny that he renamed himself “Weegee,” claiming that he functioned as a human Ouija board. Weegee was famous for his graphic photos of dead bodies, as well as the city itself. The girls talk to Christopher Bonanos, author of book Flash: The Making of Weegee The Famous, about the man now regarded as an innovator and a pioneer, an artist as well as a newsman, whose photographs are among most powerful images of urban existence ever made.