Today’s human remains trade is a global phenomenon operating primarily online across numerous platforms. Today, as in the colonial past, a significant portion of the private trade involves the remains of Brown and Black bodies, as well as Indigenous Ancestors, flowing from communities in the Global South to collectors in the Global North. The violence and theft that often underpinned Colonial-era networks of commerce in the dead live on among certain collector ‘niches’ today—‘niches’ in which real evidence for ante- or peri-mortem trauma, or stories emphasizing the violence meted out to individual’s whose remains are being bought or sold, become the selling point. We illustrate this through discussion of the texts, images, and comments on four exemplary Facebook posts, as well as best-practice data collection methodology and ethics for engaging with such content. We conclude via a point-by-point discussion of options open to bioarchaeologists and forensic anthropologists to respond to the online human remains trade when encountered and why doing so remains important.