Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

SHOCKER! Rest Home MURDER Arrest! 1992 Suicide Becomes Murder Arrest 2026

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Janice Randle was 30 and the mother of two girls when she was murdered at home in her bed in Graham, Washington. Her 18-month-old daughter, Kourtney, slept in a crib next to her mother's bed and was unharmed. Janice and her estranged husband, James Randle, were separated and headed for divorce at the time of her death. James Randle told investigators Janice may have died from a drug overdose, citing a past history of painkiller use, but autopsy results revealed there were no drugs in her system. Investigators had little evidence to go on and the case went cold for decades. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the case from a time before the murder took place and examine how the daughters of Janice Randle revived the case with investigators, leading to an arrest nearly 34 years after the murder!

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.12 Intro - early years of parenting

04:21.05 Janice Randle found in bed, dead

09:40.34 why leave 18-month old alive....

15:15.29 Two daughters at time of death, 14 years and 18 months

20:10.78 Are contusions defense wounds?

24:59.38 No drugs in Janice system

30:32.86 Injuries from smothering

35:04.84 Daughters went to police

39:12.62 Conclusion

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Groomed By Cops From Age 10! Cop Charged in Staged Suicide: Murder of Sandra Birchmore

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Sandra Birchmore was a 23-year-old teacher's aide and instructional assistant who was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts, home in February 2021. Sandra was known to many officers of the Stoughton Police department due to her involvement with an Explorer program as a teen. Her death, initially ruled a suicide, became the focus of a federal homicide investigation, leading to the 2024 arrest of former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell, who was charged with her murder. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack update the case with additional forensic evidence that is just now coming to light.

Transcribe Highlights

00:06.64 Introduction - Basic Training

02:29.94 Murder of Sandra Birchmore

05:05.01 Explorer Post is extension of scouting

10:08.64 Sandra was a Teachers-Aide

15:09.02 Suicide investigations

20:16.88 Discovery of body

25:24.73 Sandra excited - 10 weeks pregnant

30:02.03 Death ruling changed after 3 plus years

35:25.69 Investigation revealed others involved

40:05.90 FBI investigation

41:53.69 Conclusion

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GUILTY! Gilgo 4 plus 4: Heuermann Changes Plea, Strangled, Dismembered!

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Rex Heuermann changed his plea to "guilty" in the murders of 8 women whose remains were discovered, for the most part, in the Gilgo beach area of Long Island. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the change in plea and what was said in court, and what was not said. Joe describes his visit to the home of Rex Heuermann as well as his tour of the site where the Gilgo 4 were found.

Transcribe Highlights
00:03.58 Introduction

01:20.57 Rex Heuermann, convicted

05:12.73 Defense said evidence overwhelming

10:17.53 Heuermann admits to strangulation

15:07.64 How will FBI study Heuermann

20:16.82 Judge talked about pool reporting allowed;

25:04.45 "There are still bodies on that beach"

30:06.01 Heuermann home disgusting

35:12.73 Visiting the site of the Gilgo 4

40:10.32 Did Heuermann kill all bodies found at Gilgo?

45:06.34 Heuermann had to have privacy to dismember bodies

47:20.10 Conclusion

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Cops Alerted To Vultures Circling, Discover Suitcases Stuffed With Human Body Parts

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000

In Florida, Palm Bay Police are called when a witness notices vultures circling around an area known as "The Compound", a 2700-acre abandoned residential development with 200 miles of paved roads but know homes. An area known for crime and illegal dumping. Officers arrive to find two suitcases in the tall weeds, and inside the trunks is the source of nightmares. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack open the bags and breakdown a story that has yet to be solved.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.03 Introduction

00:02.29 Exploring on bikes

01:34.51 The "Compound"

06:17.18 Police alerted to vultures circling

13:33.20 Bodies in trunks

18:10.20 JJ and Tylee recovery

23:28.89 Getting the bodies to a controlled area

29:23.80 Girlfriend talks to cops

35:16.24 One chance to paint a picture

39:52.55 Was this the first murder for the suspect?

44:55.64 Conclusion

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SOLVED! After 60 YEARS, Cigarettes Identify The Killer in 1966 Murder!

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000

In 1966 Marjorie Rudolph, 60, opened the door to her killer. The person beat her over the head with an object, stomped on her enough to break multiple ribs, the drug her to the bathroom and put her in a bathtub full of water, and left. No arrest was made and the case went cold. But the people of San Rafael police department never forgot about Marjorie. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the timeline of what happened to Marjorie Rudolph and how, after 60 years, her killer is identified.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.86 Introduction

02:59.32 60-year-old Historic case

05:42.30 Cigarette butts solved the murder

10:53.80 Victim found in bathtub filled with water

15:20.15 Investigators had a suspect, couldn't prove it

20:01.10 Husband in hospital

25:02.40 Suspect Laurel Spitzer left town

30:05.91 Biggest piece of evidence

35:17.23 Multiple cigs meant suspect was in house a while

40:24.37 Retired detectives work the case

45:24.48 Othram helping solve cold cases

46:34.16 Conclusion

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Kidnapped. Beaten. Injected w/Fentanyl, Dumped off Bridge: Who Killed Matthew Whisman?

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Matthew Whisman was always too trusting of his cousins, even when they were mean to him. On the last night of his life, Matthew Whisman was beaten senseless, forced to take a bath to wash off evidence, fed his "last supper", injected with fentanyl and dumped over a bridge. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack investigate the timeline to find out why Matthew was missing for three months before anyone reported him missing.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.09 Introduction - family

03:09.23 Matthew was very trusting

08:03.38 Text messages show Matthew helping police in shooting into a house

14:02.61 Suspects make Matthew wash himself

19:14.43 Last Supper

23:35.13 Torture/kidnap/poison homicide

28:34.17 Mom reports Matthew missing

32:52.57 Body in water for 5 months

38:24.95 Conclusion

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Man Shot, Dismembered and Fed To Pigs: The Death of Joseph Eiler

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000

A man reported "missing" in Florida was never really "missing". Joseph Eiler was shot and killed by his girlfriend, Ashley Averett. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about the body of Joseph Eiler being chopped into pieces and fed to pigs!

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.86 Introduction

01:59.32 Killing and cutting up the body

05:22.30 Asking the right questions

10:18.80 Routine

15:00.15 Disturbed dirt

20:19.10 Smell of bleach, cleaner

25:12.40 Poking for methane gas

30:05.91 JJ and Tylee buried on Daybell property

35:07.23 Police have witness

36:24.48 Conclusion

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CAUGHT! 1990 Monster of 'Lovers Lane': Killed Two, Maybe More! Cold Case Solved!

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

On August 23, 1990, Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson were in the early stages of a dating relationship, and loved being together.

After a night out, the couple heads to a local "lovers lane" outside of Houston, Texas. What happens to this couple is what makes for shocking horror stories told around campfires for decades.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack share the background on the Lovers Lane Murders, but celebrate as a suspect has been caught after more than 35 years.

Another case solved with the help of Othram!

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction - Deception

01:53.24 Othram and the incredible work they do

05:08.75 Young lovers go to a "lovers lane"

10:19.83 Looking at a scene, more bodies?

15:12.15 Where did the fatal act begin?

20:13.21 Showed up prepared

24:57.34 Suspect dressed car to look like police car

30:23.99 Sadism

35:08.41 What would you see?

38:21.80 Conclusion

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SHOCKER! Man Posts Video on YouTube Throwing Bucket of HUMAN BONES Into FBI Parking Lot!

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Michael Chadwick Fry throws a bucket filled with bones over the secure fence into the parking lot of the FBI headquarters in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. We know he did this because he recorded himself doing it and posted the video to his YouTube channel. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack explore the world of stolen and missing remains, and the story behind Michael Fry breaking into multiple cemeteries in Oklahoma and Arlington, Texas. Fry is accused of stealing bones from a mausoleum, cremains in an urn and the remains of one person who still had dirt and leaves on the skull Fry displays on his YouTube channel. The motive? He wants the FBI to investigate a crime he witnessed in 2012.

Transcribe Highlights
00:01.62 Introduction - Trying to get attention

02:06.84 Trying to get the attention of the FBI

04:59.38 Michael Fry through a bucket of bones over the fence of the FBI parking lot in DFW

10:24.19 Bucket contained many bones

15:17.30 Book presented to doctor in Denton, Texas

20:04.18 Fry posted video of bone throw on YouTube

25:18.02 A skull with dirt and leaves

29:59.89 Fry made local news crashing truck into FOX tv building in Dallas

34:39.02 People stealing remains more often these days

38:45.06 Conclusion

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Headless-Handless-Body Dumped in Upstate New York Identified: Who Killed Clyde Coppage?

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

A headless, handless, nude body with an "X" carved into his chest is found in rural New York state on March 20, 1970. As the body has no head, no hands, no identification or clothing, the case goes cold quickly and the body is laid to rest as Allegany County John Doe 1970. No "Missing Person" report was filed, ever. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at an almost impossible to solve case, that got cracked wide open 56 years later changing the name from John Doe, to Clyde Coppage, age 35, when he was murdered in 1970. His killer has never been caught and the case remains "Active".

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.05 Introduction - Treasure Island

01:44.63 X marked the spot

04:13.46 Unidentified body

07:06.71 Headless, handless, Nude body, X carved in chest, found on side of road

10:34.01 Smell of human decay difficult to defeat

14:58.98 Cold area

20:21.90 Allegany County John Doe

25:00.38 Missing person report never filed

30:15.24 Body placed in inexpensive casket

35:13.62 Using tissue builder to restore finger prints

38:50.59 Creating timeline

43:21.90 Don't know the nature of injuries

45:00.38 Conclusion

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Missing In Barcelona: Alabama Student Found Drowned, Mysterious Death Investigation

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Jimmy Gracey, 20, vanished after a night out with friends in Spain.

He was last seen outside a Barcelona nightclub at 3 a.m. and never made it back to his Airbnb. Police find his wallet in the water. Days later, Gracey's body is found in the same waters.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the facts as they are currently known and try to make sense out of how Gracey's phone ended up in possession of a man under arrest for a crime not related to Gracey's disappearance.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.70 Introduction - wallet/phone

05:14.65 20-year-old student missing in Spain

10:00.29 Creating the timeline

14:45.57 What do Spanish officials claim happened

20:06.92 Specific comments about Gracey on video

25:05.87 Going off the rocks and into the water

30:06.24 Drowning assessment

35:19.83 Police claim person with Gracey's phone is not involved in Gracey's death

38:10.84 Conclusion

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Suspect Confesses To Pastor's Murder, Demands Execution! You Won't Believe Why!

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

UPDATE: When Pastor William "Bill" Schonemann was found dead in his bed, posed with his hands pinned to the wall as if crucified, there was little information to go on and at the time we covered the story, no arrest had been made.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack update the story with the arrest of 52-year-old Adam Sheafe.

Sheafe has admitted to the murder of Pastor Schonemann and demands the state put him to death, but only to prove that he cannot be killed.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

01:40.76 Body staged like crucifixion

04:30.52 2 members of church find pastor murdered

10:00.62 Posing of bodies often hidden from press

15:16.25 Adam Sheafe, 51, charged with murder

20:01.94 Evil walking into service

25:05.08 Sheafe had list of 14 pastors to kill

30:16.31 Sheafe charged with multiple crimes

35:03.42 Documenting crucifixion

40:05.94 Conclusion

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Man Arrested For 1980 Murder! DNA and Jailhouse Snitch Finger Suspect in 46 Year Cold Case

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

In October 1980 Charles Barnes is found stabbed to death in his Tampa, Florida home. Police discover the 39-year-old naked on the floor with a knife lodged in his chest and the scene shows signs of struggle. Detectives find blood soaked bedding and beer cans with fingerprints of an unknown persons. When no suspect is connected to the fingerprints the case goes cold. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go back through the evidence available at the time, and discuss how the old evidence contained everything needed to arrest a suspect more than 45 years after the murder.

Transcript Highlights

00:03.51 Introduction

01:08.12 A towel with DNA

05:10.78 Forensic technology available 1980

10:07.53 Latent prints

15:15.38 Simpson Crime Scene 1994 Dennis Fong

20:30.66 Using X-Ray instead of photo in court

25:06.30 Finger prints didn't hit

30:20.12 2009 Prints came back to Robert Bear

35:23.00 Fingernail clippings from victim

40:00.04 DNA match to suspect

45:12.79 Evidence places Robert Bear at crime scene

47:01.86 Conclusion

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Brutal Rape, Execution Style Murder: The Death of Barbara Waldman, Solved After 52 Years

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:15:00 +0000

In 1974, 5-year-old Eric Waldman came home from kindergarten and found his mother bound, gagged and shot in the head.

The murder of Barbara Waldman, 31, mother of three, shocked the Oceanside, New York, community. What was more shocking is that the case was not solved for over 50 years and went cold.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the murder of Barbara Waldman, the timeline of her murder, and how the murderer went undetected for 52 years.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.02 Introduction

04:19.51 Half-Day Kindergarten

10:18.29 5-year-old discovers mom

15:22.10 Execution style murder and rape

19:46.10 Torture

25:01.66 Timeline

30:50.90 50 plus years later, solved

35:06.95 Othram got a hit

41:30.90 Conclusion

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Disgusting! Bodies of Young Girls Who Died During "Rough Sex" Buried At Epstein's Zorro Ranch!

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

The recent Jeffrey Epstein document dump contains an email sent to an Albuquerque, New Mexico, radio talk show from an anonymous individual claiming to be a former employee at Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch.

The author claims two young foreign girls died by strangulation during "Rough, Fetish Sex" and their bodies were buried in an area of the Zorro Ranch that is made up of 1244 acres of cattle grazing land leased from the state of New Mexico.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the ranch and what it is going to take to find bodies that may have been buried ten or more years ago.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.09 Introduction

01:45.78 Zorro Ranch

05:47.46 Epstein-Zorro Ranch, 2 Foreign girls died

10:06.37 Annie Farmer was taken to Zorro Ranch

15:36.26 Finding information about the land

20:27.00 Caliche, ground that feels like cement

25:15.06 Zorro Ranch had Fire-House

30:00.50 Putting a team together to search

35:04.18 How young are the girls?

40:35.79 No soft tissue, maybe hair

42:20.62 Conclusion

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Sickening Hammer Attack leaves 3 Men Over 60 DEAD!

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Three men over the age of 60 found beaten to death in the basement of a house in a quite neighborhood in south Detroit. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about the type of crime scene police described, the suspect caught with a hammer and a bat, the possible forensic evidence, and try to find an explanation for three men who died in the most brutal way possible

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.00 Introduction - Detroit

01:54.55 Death by Hammer

06:16.89 Man tells police he was beat with hammer, dead bodies in the house

10:39.91 CID or Homicide Division

15:11.64 History of Hammers in war

20:09.82 Old family neighborhood

25:08.44 Suspect not charged with murders, yet

30:06.23 Types of DNA found on hammer

34:55.48 Generate more energy with a bat

39:39.34 3 people dead for a day

41:20.61 Conclusion

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2007 Cold Case: Body Parts Found Burning, Head/Hands/Feet Missing! Solved 2026! Death of Nicole Alston

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0000

On December 6, 2007, the fire department in Troup County Georgia was called to a rural county road after two bags were found on fire.

Extinguishing the blaze, firefighters find dismembered human remains inside the bags. The body had been cut into 13 pieces, and the head, hands and feet, were all missing.

Investigators failed to identify the body at the time, but did not give up.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go over the evidence found in the bags and how it was used, 18-years later, to identify the woman....and open a case that leads to murder, stolen identity, and fraud.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.12 Introduction - Tedious

01:30.39 80 charges, woman accused of killing girlfriend

02:43.51 The things in life that require tedious checking of facts

03:40.38 Nicole Alston, 24, missing, replaced by Angel Thompson

06:04.36 Fire Dept called, two bags on fire, bags contain body parts

10:41.24 Head, hands, and feet are missing

13:41.24 Prevent identification of body, steal identity

19:07.67 Legs will not be mistaken for a dog

24:44.58 Determine if female has had a child

29:45.21 We don't know about murder, we know dismembered and burned

35:01.34 Investigators preserved what they found in 2007

36:18.07 Alston identified after sister entered DNA into public site

40:21.61 Conclusion

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1996 Cold Case: Kidnap/Murder of 7-year-old, SOLVED!

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000

It was a hot summer day on July 24, 1996, when 7-year-old Morgan Violi went outside to play with a friend at the Shive Lane apartment complex where she lived with her mom and two sisters in Bowling Green, Kentucky. A man driving an older-model, maroon Chevrolet van pulled up alongside the girls, jumped out and tried to grab the girl Morgan was playing with but was unsuccessful, so, he snatched Morgan, threw her into the van and sped away. The van was stolen out of Dayton, Ohio, and was recovered two days later in Franklin, Tennessee, 30 miles south of Nashville. The van was scrubbed clean. The search for Morgan lasted until October 26, 1996, when her skeletal remains were found in the woods off I-65 in White House, Tennessee, 30 miles north of Nashville. A suspect was never located, and the case went cold for nearly 30 years. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the cold case kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Morgan Violi and the forensic evidence that solved her case and led to a confession by the killer.

Transcribe Highlights

00:01.31 Introduction

01:18.66 Prison escapee kills 7-year-old

05:04.06 Watching children

10:19.84 Fiber solves cold case

14:56.99 Robert Froberg, the killer, 61 now

25:01.86 Unlocking door to scientific truth

29:56.86 Examining decomposition

35:21.14 Van found two days after Morgan kidnapped

39:17.35 Conclusion

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DISGUSTING! Body Parts in CADAVER BAG! Singer D4VD Target of Romantic Homicide of a Child Investigation

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000

David Anthony Burke, known as the singer D4vd, writes songs with bloody imagery and titles like, "Romantic Homicide."

His career was on the rise. But, as his first-ever "World Tour" began, the body of a missing child from Lake Elsinore, California, was found in the front trunk of Burke's Tesla. The decomposing remains of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez were found in two bags stashed in the vehicle.

A Los Angeles grand jury has been looking into the death of Celeste since November, and Burke's parents and brother have been fighting in court to avoid having to testify.

In the Habeas Corpus petition, for the first time, David Anthony Burke is named as the target of the investigation into the death of Celeste.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack examine the case, the timeline, and discuss certain items mentioned in the writ, such as a "cadaver bag" containing some of the remains of Celeste.

Transcribe Highlights
00:06.14 Introduction D4VD and Celeste Rivas

02:42.81 Part of Celeste remains in a "cadaver bag"

05:06.65 David Anthony Burke - D4VD

10:05.78 Was Burke intimate with Celeste?

14:57.53 Workers smell odor of decomp, call cops

20:06.33 Celeste was 14

24:57.55 Body Bags used in videos?

29:54.58 Color of gloves mentioned

35:07.25 Flies do nothing but eat and make babies

40:10.75 Keeping the bones

43:57.86 Conclusion

David Anthony Burke, known as the singer, D4VD, writes songs with bloody imagery and titles like "Romantic Homicide". His career was on the rise. But as his first ever "World Tour" began, the body of a missing child from Lake Elsinore, California, was found in the front trunk of Burke's Tesla. The decomposing remains of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, found in two bags stashed in the Tesla. A Grand Jury has been looking into the death of Celeste since November and Burke's parents and brother have been fighting in court to avoid having to testify before the Grand Jury. In the Habeas Corpus petition, for the first time, David Anthony Burke is named as the Target of the investigation into the death of Celeste. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack examine the case, the timeline, and discuss certain items mentioned in the writ, such as a "cadaver bag" containing some of the remains of Celeste.

Transcribe Highlights
00:06.14 Introduction D4VD and Celeste Rivas

02:42.81 Part of Celeste remains in a "cadaver bag"

05:06.65 David Anthony Burke - D4VD

10:05.78 Was Burke intimate with Celeste?

14:57.53 Workers smell odor of decomp, call cops

20:06.33 Celeste was 14

24:57.55 Body Bags used in videos?

29:54.58 Color of gloves mentioned

35:07.25 Flies do nothing but eat and make babies

40:10.75 Keeping the bones

43:57.86 Conclusion

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Wife of 'American Idol' Alum Shot Dead in Bed: Hubby, Daughters, Unharmed

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Caleb Flynn calls 911 at 2:30 a.m. on February 16, claiming a burglar has entered his Ohio home and shot his wife, Ashley Flynn, twice in the head.

Flynn, a former music pastor, tells the dispatcher that he was not in the room at the time; he was with their daughters in their room, and they are still asleep.

When Tipp City officers arrive, they find signs of an apparent forced entry.

Ashley Flynn was a substitute teacher/volleyball coach and the mother of two daughters who will now grow up without her.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the Red Flags in the 911 call, as well as the story Caleb Flynn told.

The story has garnered national headlines, as Caleb Flynn appeared on "American Idol" in 2013, making it to the "Hollywood Week" episode before being eliminated.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.28 Introduction - musicians

03:58.90 American Idol contestant

08:07.72 Caleb Flynn did not get past Hollywood Week

12:51.13 Assessment by civilian

14:30.98 Audio from 911 call

15:25.21 Says she has been shot twice in the head

20:41.49 Head injuries have a lot of blood

25:17.12 Garage door open

30:21.52 How does suspect get into the home

35:12.47 Who is up next on the call sheet

40:02.58 Defense attorney says he is "disappointed and concerned"

45:04.86 Range of Fire

46:21.24 Conclusion

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'Evil' Sister Kills 'Good' Sister, Puts Body In Hole in Backyard: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

This is a tale of two sisters, Karen and Debra.

Karen is loving, responsible, and well-liked by all who know her. She lived with and cared for her parents until they lost their battles with Alzheimer's and cancer. Karen also took care of her finances and was financially well-off for retirement.

Debra was gone for decades, living several states away in Louisiana. She never held a steady job and never had any money.

When their parents died, Debra moved back to Florida, with no money and no place to stay, and Karen let her sister move into her home.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack dig into the story of how the evil sister murdered the good sister with a bullet to the chest, wrapped her body in a trash bag, and buried her in a hole in the backyard.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.15 Introduction

02:10.97 Victim loves working in her yard

05:06.55 Two sisters, Karen and Debra

08:25.53 Debra comes back after parents die

12:14.34 Perp keeping victim close after death

16:55.11 Seeing a hole in the yard

20:57.88 Odor of decomposing body

25:33.91 Bad smell doesn't mean something is there

29:48.57 Very careful digging to not miss anything

35:07.70 Everything goes to the lab

40:27.15 Karen has one GSW to the chest

44:43.54 Debra claims she is "blameless"

45:28.45 Conclusion

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Forensic Evidence and $1.2 MILLION REWARD! Where Is Nancy Guthrie?

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Part 2: The Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case has sparked national interest as the days continue to add up. As of today, Nancy Guthrie has been missing 25 days. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the forensic evidence left behind inside the house as well as articles of evidence found by local citizens trying to help find the 84-year-old mother of Today Show Co-Host, Savannah Guthrie.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.07 Introduction Guthrie Part 2

02:22.10 DNA Profile didn't get hit in CODIS

07:43.42 DNA Profile in feces in a dry toilet

11:31.21 Getting a sample

15:53.69 What is "touch" DNA

20:07.83 Trying to understand movements of suspect and victim

24:58.58 Too many people involved

30:46.46 Tucson Couple finds bloody glove near scene

35:18.30 FBI did not respond as quickly as hoped

40:08.54 Reason agents leak talent contract terms

41:19.73 Conclusion

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Nancy Guthrie, 84, MISSING! Evidence Found in Home Could Bring Her Home!

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The 84-year-old mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, Nancy Guthrie, was last seen January 31, 2026 around 9:47pm. The next day around noon, Nancy Guthrie is reported missing. More than three weeks later she is still missing. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack explore the forensic evidence left behind and how it has been treated by officials on the ground in an attempt to uncover the one piece of evidence that will bring Nancy Guthrie home.

Transcribe Highlights

00:02.33 Introduction - Security

01:07.26 Securing a Crime Scene

03:59.01 Nancy Guthrie - Why her?

08:44.60 Sheriff's department turned scene released back to the family

13:57.53 Comparing Heuermann home

19:46.55 Blood on the ground

25:08.12 Direction blood takes investigator

29:53.66 Blood with a bubble like appearance

35:02.04 2:28am at least 20 feet away from Apple watch

40:18.20 Foot step making impression on floor

45:30.29 How often is Guthrie home cleaned?

47:41.59 Conclusion Part One

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Killer FINALLY Named in 1964 Murder of Mary Simpson, 12

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The Elmira Police Department named Alfred Raymond Murray Jr. as the lone suspect in the 1964 murder of 12-year-old Mary Simpson.

The case remained unsolved for 62 years, but it was never forgotten. After getting a grant from the Season of Justice in 2022, Elmira police, with the assistance of the FBI, reopened the case using modern forensic methods.

In 2023, the Elmira Police Department partnered with the Criminal Investigation Resource Center at Russell Sage College, and the case was organized and digitized, allowing for a review of evidence and forensics.

Forensic evidence from the case was sent to Othram's laboratory in the Woodlands, Texas, where scientists were able to build a comprehensive DNA profile of the unknown suspect.

The profile was used by the FBI's forensic genetic genealogy team, and working together with the Elmira Police Department, investigators found the suspect, Alfred Raymond Murray Jr.

Murray died on March 16, 2004, at the age of 73, almost 40 years to the day. Mary Simpson vanished on March 15, 1964. She was 12.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction Update Mary Simpson

05:12.41 Finding identity of killer

10:00.17 A rookie cop in 1964 would be in his/her 80s now

15:00.91 Community was looking for Mary Simpson, 12

20:03.67 Killer shoved dirt in Mary's mouth

25:04.15 Predator will stand over victim

30:40.23 Othram did genetic genealogy

31:37.91 Murray may have been responsible for multiple sexual assaults on children for years

34:57.02 Mary's body covered in rocks and dirt, choked to death

37:02.08 Conclusion

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Kurt Cobain Death Ruled Suicide in '94: Forensic Scientists Call For Homicide Investigation!

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The King County Medical Examiner's Office ruled Kurt Cobain's death on April 5, 1994, was the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. In the last 30 plus years many theories of what "really" happened have appeared in books and documentaries but now comes a team of independent forensic scientists who are calling for a fresh investigation into the death of the 27-year-old. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the investigation into the death of Kurt Cobain, was it self-inflicted as originally thought, or did someone get away with murder.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.00 Introduction

01:54.87 Kurt Cobain death - study claims homicide

07:15.49 Grunge movement

10:06.79 The 27 Club

15:05.10 Working the Guthrie Kidnapping

20:16.32 Cobain had recent NPW

24:56.30 Drug abuse deaths are shocking

30:27.27 Cobain is in garage apartment, by himself

35:10.51 Checking mouth during autopsy - evidence of fouling, no stippling

40:17.50 Tolerance of the user is part of the discussion

45:27.40 Study is peer reviewed - International Journal of Forensic Science

50:08.25 Lungs become very heavy

53:57.93 Conclusion

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Epstein Files: Murder or Suicide? Bodies Buried At Epstein Zorro Ranch?

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

More information has been dropped on the Jeffrey Epstein files and two things are taking center stage: 1. The autopsy and 2. New Mexico Ranch. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the autopsy and the ranch in New Mexico. Professor Morgan explains what happens when an autopsy is being observed by another professional such as Dr Michael Baden and what the "facts" determined during the autopsy mean regarding homicide or suicide.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.00 Introduction Epstein

03:07.94 More info keeps dropping

07:12.66 New focus on New Mexico ranch

12:20.59 Epstein worth $577 million

17:15.13 Michael Baden an observer at Epstein autopsy

22:55.99 Baden would have been taking notes

28:04.65 Epstein death more consistent with homicide

34:24.21 The furrow is very high on the neck

39:31.13 Impact injury below shoulder

43:49.58 After Autopsy it was agreed more info was needed

48:02.68 Conclusion

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911 Call: Man Burning Alive! Partner Flees Scene Before Help Arrives, Copper Theft Arc Flash!

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

On July 17, at 5:13 a.m., Molly Hubbard called 911 to report a man on fire in the street.

During the 911 call, a man can be heard in the background moaning while Hubbard shouts at him to "drop and roll."

Then, the line disconnected.

Police and EMS arrive on the scene and find Ryan Crawford suffering from severe burns to his face, arms, legs, and backside.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack examine the story told to 911. and the story told by the forensics to explain why Molly Hubbard was arrested and charged with murder.

Transcribe Highlights
00:05.21 Introduction - Wichita

04:02.49 Death in the middle of a theft

09:05.35 May have given Crawford something to calm him down

14:42.20 Molly Hubbard left scene

20:03.02 Death with fire is complex

25:16.54 Electrocution victim, one small point of entry

30:26.37 Story lacks credibility

35:34.81 Degree of burns

40:21.14 Burn victims body swell, requires splitting

45:14.94 Molly Hubbard sold scrap metal while cohort in hospital

47:02.26 Conclusion

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Murdering Mom Serves Poison Wine at Thanksgiving Dinner: 1 Daughter DEAD, 2 Wounded

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Leela Livis, 32, dies after having Thanksgiving dinner with her mom. Her sister, Mia Lacey, and Mia's boyfriend, Richard Pegg, hospitalized but survive. It wasn't bad turkey, it was Bad Mom. Gudrun Linda Jean Casper-Leinenkugel, 52, charged with first degree murder in the death of daughter Leela, and two counts of attempted murder of Mia and Richard. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss how the matriarch of the family conducted internet searches for "what happens if I accidentally ingest acetronile?" and "does wine turn into cyanide?" Joe Scott explains how the poison investigation also caused the 2007 death of Michael Schmidt to be re-examined, turns out Schmidt might not have died in a house fire, it looks like he was poisoned by "Bad Mom" as well.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.28 Introduction Thanksgiving

04:51.38 Murder and attempted murder at Thanksgiving

09:58.33 Cyanide poisoning

14:52.42 Industrial solvent, turns to cyanide when ingested

20:09.64 Poisoning everyone in the house

25:16.95 Tox screen

30:00.16 Was one person the target?

35:17.36 Killing your own child

40:31.69 Conclusion

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COLD CASE SOLVED! 1964 Murder of Mary Simpson, 12: Killer Named After 60 Years!

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Mary Theresa Simpson, 12, vanished when she was walking home from a relative's home in March 1964, in Elmira, New York.

Her beaten and abused body was found four days later, in a wooded area in Southport.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go back in time to discover what happened to Mary Simpson and why police could not find a suspect to arrest, and charge with the rape and murder of a little girl.

They also discuss how, after 60 years, the case was broken wide open due to great police work in 1964. Coupled with exceptional science work by Othram, a suspect has been named after 60 years of questions.

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Transcribe Highlights
00:03.38 Introduction

01:03.48 Cold Cases - Time Marches On

04:51.96 March 19, 1964 Mary Simpson, 12, vanishes

10:27.83 Suspect jammed twigs, grass, dirt into Mary;s mouth

15:06.68 Area has not changed much since 1964

20:18.94 Targeting of individuals

25:06.14 Subject would have known where they were going

30:06.65 Othram can begin a case with $7,500

36:17.78 Teaching students to triangulate a scene

41:28.48 Conclusion

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Teen's Savage Hammer Attack Leaves Mom Dead; Face and Head - Deformed.

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

11-year-old Jordan Weems writes a note to his mom; "Dear mom, I love you because you are smart, kind and very loving. That's what I love about you." Five years after writing that note to his adoptive mother, Spring Weems, Jordan Weems allegedly beats her to death with a hammer, puts her body in a trash dumpster and rolls it to the curb. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go behind the headlines to take a look at the crime scene, the kitchen of a home in a suburb of Oklahoma City to try and understand how a 16-year-old boy, would be charged as an adult for the murder of his adoptive mother.

Transcribe Highlights

00:01.43 Introduction

00:24.64 Joe Scott, not a Handyman

04:28.06 Jordan Weems, 16, charged with killing
adoptive mother

08:05.40 Parenting and discipline

13:09.27 Ripping of skin

18:10.56 Weapon of opportunity

23:30.58 Body of Spring Weems in trashcan

29:06.62 Victim beaten while on ground

34:34.95 Blood would have been everywhere

39:02.52 Blood in hair, like a mop

43:29.34 Conclusion

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Killer 'Shark Tank' Contestant Allegedly Murders Teen Daughter of Ex: Revenge!

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

On April 3, 2025, two girls ate chocolate-covered raspberries.

Four days later, Ines de Bedout, 14, and Emilia Forero, 13, pass away. They were reportedly poisoned with thallium, injected into the raspberries.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack find the bottom of the truth barrel and share how an entrepreneur contestant on "Shark Tank" wins the grand prize, and loses her boyfriend.

She also allegedly kills his daughter, travels the world while on Interpol's Most Wanted list, only to jump in the Thames after arriving in Great Britain.

Transcribe Highlights
00:01.91 Introduction - The Thames

02:33.39 Poison deaths

06:28.24 Woman flees to Great Britain, jumps in Thames

12:14.90 Suspect accused of Poison child of former boyfriend

17:46.65 Substances that are now illegal

23:32.66 What would symptoms look like?

28:36.25 2 girls dead, one girl with "life changing injuries"

34:05.06 Lithium batteries and thallium

39:13.40 Conclusion

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SHOCKER! Kohberger Had Help? Two Murder Weapons in Moscow, Idaho?!

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

In the last few weeks, shocking photos "leaked" by the state police showing the inside of the Moscow, Idaho, Crime Scene. On top of the photos come claims from an "expert" hired by Kohberger team who claims there were two killers and multiple weapons. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the facts of the case and Joseph Scott Morgan gives a class on forensic evidence and what it means to try and put the case to rest.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.34 Introduction - Kohberger Theories

02:24.11 Victim Photo dump

07:49.05 Case handled poorly

11:52.18 Video dumps

15:42.47 Still don't have victim tox screens

20:47.06 There was a plan

25:30.83 More than one weapon theory

30:30.22 Other Theories don't fit know facts

35:12.79 Pictures from inside house showed blood

40:01.65 Tearing down the house

44:51.50 Kohberger didn't have to answer questions

45:40.61 Conclusion

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Fire Chief Calls 911, Wife Had Seizure, Died: Autopsy Says MURDER!

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

In Washington state, Fire Department Battalion Chief Kevin West calls 911 at 4:27 a.m. and reports that his wife, Marcy West, is unconscious.

West says his wife is having a seizure and that he is performing CPR. The Camas-Washougal Fire Department responds to the call, but 48-year-old Marcy dies.

An autopsy is inconclusive, and her body is turned over to the funeral home. In the days that follow, police receive calls claiming the West marriage was broken and that the chief was having an affair.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack dig the truth out of the story, and Joseph Scott Morgan explains what was found in the second autopsy that would have been nearly impossible to miss the first time.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.03 Introduction - Taking a second look

04:05.15 Heroes - Firemen, policemen

06:29.10 Kevin West, fire chief, calls 911

10:24.38 Tammy Daybell death

14:12.47 Brain texture

19:05.56 Divorce and murder

24:44.89 West Marriage discussed in community

29:07.23 Helping first responders experience a real body

34:50.17 Finding marks on the neck

39:40.44 Kevin West guilty of murder

40:19.06 Conclusion

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Au Pair Love Triangle Murder Trial: What Does The Forensic Evidence Show?

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

On Feb. 24, 2023, police were called to the Banfield family home for a stabbing and a shooting around 8 a.m. Brendan Banfield, an IRS special agent, told police he shot a man who had stabbed his wife, Christine Banfield. Police find Christine Banfield, nude and stabbed multiple times, in an upstairs bedroom. Nearby, they find a man named Joseph Ryan shot multiple times. Inside the house at the time of the shooting: Brendan Banfield, along with the family's au pair, then-22-year-old Juliana Peres Magalhaes, and the Banfields' then-4-year-old daughter. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go behind the headlines to find out what really happened in a home that left a 37-year-old mother dead, a 39-year-old male stranger dead, an IRS Special agent Brendan Banfield charged with murder, a four-year-old little girl who will be raised by someone other than her mother, and the Au Pair who moved into the master bedroom, then copped a plea deal to testify for the state.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.55 Introduction

01:10.44 Never known anyone who had an "au pair"

04:20.15 Multiple 911 calls

10:24.02 Fingerprints on the knife, digital forensics

14:47.86 Joe shares story from his time in Atlanta

20:20.60 Body not cleaned on scene

25:16.54 911 call, hangup. Another 911 is made 15 minutes later

30:05.72 Federal Agencies have law enforcement wings

35:09.29 Husband and Au Pair involved in sexual relationship

40:02.52 Not just the rifling

45:48.22 Conclusion

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Beauty Murdered in Van on Beach: Case Cold 42 Years: Toby Tate Death SOLVED!

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

On November 15, 1983, deputies respond to calls of a "suspicious" van parked at a Highway 1 turnout about three miles north of world famous Hearst Castle in San Luis Obispo County, California. Inside the van deputies find the body of Toby Tate, 41. She had been shot in the head in what appeared to be a possible robbery. Her purse was missing as was a nikon camera. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the evidence left behind, how the case went cold, and how after decades, the hard work of the officers in San Luis Obispo and the miracle workers at Othram helped provide answers to the family, and suspects, for the murder.

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Transcribe Highlights

00:02.29 Introduction - Child of the 70s

02:28.38 A case involving a van

04:56.41 Van is in a "turn out" lane, San Luis Obispo County

10:30.95 Evidence Toby took her dogs to the beach

15:14.53 Dead Bodies in a van for weeks

20:25.98 Rolling crime scene

25:07.00 Person resisting could put hands on suspect

30:26.78 Pawn Shop detective

35:06.86 From camera in pawn shop until recently, case was cold

40:03.75 Othram gets the info, cracks the case

45:05.99 Suspects dead

47:10.07 Conclusion

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Cop Well-Being Check, Boyfriend Bogus Jamaica Story: Where Is Stacey?

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

When Stacey Powell doesn't log onto her work computer for two days in the middle of the week, and family can't get her on the phone, police are asked to do a "well-being" check.

When police arrive, they immediately suspect Powell's boyfriend, Andrew Ridgeway, of lying. She's later found brutally murdered inside her Auburndale, Florida, home.

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack in this episode, as they discuss the case.

Also in this episode, we mention a show that dropped December 23, 2025:

"1983 Car Fire Death: Charred Remains Buried. Victim Found ALIVE! Who is in GRAVE?"

Transcribe Highlights
00:01.62 Introduction - Well-being check

01:02.14 "savage"

05:02.26 Police show up - looking for Stacey

06:05.69 Andrew Ridgeway lies to police

10:01.21 Police need a warrant

15:02.62 What do "raccoon eyes" mean?

20:01.27 Past show - charred remains, 1983 car fire death

25:22.65 Lacerations are not sharp force injuries

30:05.43 Fresh blood, slippery

35:12.74 Stacey was shot and beaten

40:00.73 Beat cops deal with everything

45:20.16 M.E. said face unrecognizable

49:38.18 Conclusion

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SKELETAL REMAINS FOUND 2006: IDENTIFIED 2026: THE STORY OF THE MISSING MAYOR!

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

In November 2006, the skeletal remains of an unidentified individual were found on a beach in Taholah, an unincorporated village on the Quinault Indian Reservation, in Grays Harbor County, Washington. he Grays Harbor Sheriff's Office and the Grays Harbor County Coroner's Office responded and began collecting evidence and investigating. The Skeletal Remains: Adult Man - 5'9" - 170 - 180 lbs Likely between 20 and 60 years old (OR OLDER!!!!) Needless to say, the case went cold. For 20 years. In 2025 - Grays Harbor County Coroner's Office and the King County Medical Examiner's Office and submit evidence to Othram. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about the case that didn't seem possible to solve, and the Mayor who was able to finally be laid to rest.

Transcribe Highlights

00:03.34 Introduction - Story of "Pearl"

03:23.81 Ann Rule - true crime author

05:05.05 Skeletal Remains found on beach

10:10.94 Dental wear to determine age

15:09.54 Skull wear - suture lines

20:34.97 Standing at the edge of raging rivers

25:01.85 Soft tissue eaten

30:23.00 Mayor Edwin Asher

35:11.85 Skeleton found in 2006

41:12.23 Identifying remains

45:17.78 Having to breathe life into DNA

48:52.47 Othram making a difference

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SHOCKING TRUE STORY! Serial Killer Who Got Away with Murders!

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Robert Eugene Brashers was a serial killer and rapist who got away with murders. He was only proved to be a "serial killer" 20 years after he killed himself! Brashers body was exhumed and his DNA tied him to the infamous "Yogurt Shop Murders" in Austin, Texas in 1991. Now in the recent past, another cold case has been tied to Brashers - the 1998 murder of Linda Rutledge in Lexington, Kentucky. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the evidence that ties Brashers to both of those crimes as well as several more!

Transcribe Highlights
00:02.71 Introduction: Yogurt Shop Murders

05:33.02 Working Serial homicides

10:00.38 Joining the Army, then Navy

15:07.68 Is three years enough for the crime?

19:59.05 Shot to death, fire used to cover-up crime

25:19.93 Comes prepared to start fire

30:24.34 Execution style shooting

35:04.41 Austin and Lexington cases both cold

39:04.69 Did not know Brashers was serial killer until 2018

42:19.26 Conclusion

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Death by Cyanide: Man Surprises Wife With Cyanide and Acid Attack

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

On October 17, 2025, a normal morning starts as a New York mother sees her children off to school.

After returning from taking her youngest daughter to school, an intruder attacks Aleena Asif after sneaking into her home while she was away.

Aleena loses her life during the struggle.

Now, according to the County of Nassau District Attorney, an arrest has been made in the case.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go inside the home of Aleena Asif and break down her murder at the hands of her estranged husband, who is accused of smothering the mother of his children with Cyanide and Acid.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.07 Introduction - Snack foods

02:08.31 Cyanide

04:55.10 Marie Hilley using arsenic

10:07.92 Mom taking kids to school, at home, death awaits

15:14.60 Why did school not call the father?

20:21.43 Qureshi uses rag dipped in cyanide and acid

24:57.85 Acid would make skin look red or even turn brown

29:49.11 Workers have to worry about cyanide

35:06.94 Did suspect plan to torture

38:50.95 Conclusion

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SHOCKING! "Torso Killer" Strikes Again! Confesses to 1965 Cold Case Murder, Nursing Student, 18

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The Torso Killer is back in the news again as Richard Cottingham confesses to the 1965 murder of 18-year-old nursing student, Alys Eberhardt, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Cottingham will not be prosecuted for the murder, the admission allows the city of Fair Lawn to close the case, maybe provide an answer for family who have waited decades to know what happened to their loved one. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack dig into the story of the "Torso Killer", the "Time Square Killer" Richard Cottingham. He confesses to a cold case from 1965, will there be more?

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.28 Introduction - Decade, getting older

02:53.32 Deathbed confessions

06:23.91 Will confession aid in healing?

11:38.74 The last woman attacked, survived

16:56.79 Rodney Alcala worked at BCBS at same time

22:56.31 Torso killer - attacked with a knife, but killings were strangling

29:00.70 Heroic woman survived and caused Torso Killer to be caught

35:11.48 Telling tales for benefits in prison

40:03.03 Bodies try to heal

45:16.76 Torture killing

46:02.07 Conclusion

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Grave Robber Caught With Skull in Backseat! 100 Skeletal Remains in Home!

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Prosecutors in Pennsylvania have uncovered disturbing details in connection with an alleged 34-year-old grave robber.

Police arrested Jonathan Gerlach, of Ephrata, as he left Mount Moriah Cemetery “holding a burlap bag, crow bar, and other assorted items.” He’s now facing over 500 criminal charges in connection to alleged break-ins, including 100 counts of abuse of a corpse, desecration, theft, and more.

The reported burglaries started in early November and continued until December, according to the Delaware County, Office of the District Attorney. Police arrested Gerlach on January 6.

Now, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack dig up the dirt on the grave robber who allegedly has over 100 human skulls in his house, as well as mummified body parts.

Transcribe Highlights
00:03.45 Introduction - Mount Moriah

03:34.68 Grave Robber

07:41.62 Body prep and time

12:13.30 Glass allowing body to be viewed

17:59.99 Flies in Pa draw attention of neighbors

23:36.50 Don't step on center of cement over a grave

29:37.59 Gerlach basement

34:39.35 Driving skull to Chicago to sell

40:00.95 Too much done in 60 days time

43:00.46 Conclusion

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1987 Cold Case Murder SOLVED! Evidence in Paper Bags Points To SERIAL KILLER

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The body of Rhonda Fisher was found on April 1, 1987, 25 miles north of Denver, in a rural area of Douglas County.

A motorist passing by the area spotted her body at the 3500 block of South Perry Park Road, and contacted police. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.

The night before her murder, she was on foot, walking north on Monaco and toward Denver.

Now, following in-depth investigations with crime scene and evidence, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has announced a resolution in the case.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about the case that was cold for 38 years, and Joe explains how the evidence that pointed to the killer was in the hands of law enforcement from the very start.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.09 Introduction - Decades

02:58.90 Missing Friend found alive

05:02.26 Case begins April 1, 1987

05:53.98 Rhonda Fisher was last seen in Denver.

08:05.10 Serial perps leaving the body a certain way

13:18.90 Looking for minutiae

18:05.56 Triangulating a body

23:49.51 Trace Evidence, Bags came into play

29:38.04 Sexual assault, serialized event

34:25.69 Killer identified by what was found in the paper bags

39:05.15 Vincent Groves died 9 years after he killed Rhonda

40:50.11 Hair combings, cuttings

42:41.86 Conclusion

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Loving Couple Shot Dead, Children 4 and 1 Unharmed: Who Killed the Tepe's?

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The Columbus Division of Police Homicide Unit is asking the public for help with any video or digital evidence related to the murders of Spencer and Monique Tepe. Well thought of couple, Spencer a popular dentist, murdered in their home between 2am and 5am December 30, 2025. The couple's two children ages 4 and 1 were unharmed. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case with everything currently known as the police seek help in catching a monster.

Transcript Highlights
00:00.22 Introduction, Columbus, Ohio

03:27.89 Murders of Spencer and Monique Tepe

06:47.10 Kids inside, non-responsive adults

10:05.37 The couple is well thought of by everyone

15:16.20 Case will be heavily influenced by tech

20:07.96 Footprints in the snow

25:01.02 Cops bang on doors very loud

29:52.57 ME will determine entrance wounds

35:14.58 Killer left three shell casings behind

40:18.84 How much snow in the area?

44:51.41 Video of person of interest walking

48:22.55 Conclusion

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5-year-old Finds Mom, Dad, Shot To Death in Bed: Teen Sister Accused of Murders!

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Sarah Grace Patrick is accused of murdering her mother and stepfather while they were asleep in their bed, leaving their bodies to be discovered by the couple's five-year-old daughter. The trial was schedule to begin yesterday, January 5, 2026, but has now been delayed until August awaiting a report from a forensic neuropsychologist who evaluated the teen over several visits in August 2025. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the scene of the crime, trajectory of bullets and sound...is it possible shots were fired in the home but not heard by a 16-year-old? Also, the long, "crying without tears" eulogy of the now accused teen.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.03 Introduction - Sarah Grace Patrick

00:53.56 Rural Geography - Double homicide

04:12.36 Blended Family with a past

07:11.46 A person's past follows them around

09:57.18 James Brock - Victim had a VLAD

15:08.86 5-year-old finds parents bodies in their bed, sister Sarah Grace Patrick calls 911

16:52.09 Sarah tells 911 bodies cold to the touch, no need for CPR

20:34.55 House is small

25:01.27 Weapon used in small house, but Sarah says she didn't hear anything

30:02.20 16-year-old accused of the murders

35:12.47 Cause of death will state which gun shot wound was fatal

39:57.98 Months between murders and arrest of Sarah Grace Patrick

45:04.02 LVAD would show when heart stopped beating

50:11.23 Gunshot residue and trajectory of bullets

51:46.78 Conclusion

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Top Four Episodes of 2025 - Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan" - Final Four - Top Downloads 2025

4. DELUSIONAL.PATHETIC. AVERAGE. YOU ARE NOTHING. FAILED RAPPER: BRYAN KOHBERGBER

3. Shocking Discovery: Forensic Anthropology and the Suicide of Gabby Petito's Killer

2. EXPLOSIVE PROOF! Maddie and Kaylee Fought Back Against Cowardly Attacker

1. SHOCKING TRUTH! XANA Caught BK And Fought The Devil!

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the four most downloaded episodes of 2025, including:

The victim impact statements in the Bryan Kohberger sentencing
The forensic anthropology helping discover what happened to Gabby Petito's killer, Brian Laundrie
The proof that Maddie, Kaylee, and Xana fought their killer to the death.

Transcript Highlights
00:00.29 Introduction: Top Four Shows 2025

05:09.62 Alivea Goncalves comments to Kohberger

10:30.82 Goncalves family impact on coverage

15:14.87 Forensic Anthropology - Brian Laundrie

20:00.57 Laundrie parents went right to his body

25:04.93 Kohberger murders

30:14.65 Explanation of attack

35:21.98 Butt of Kay-bar used as hammer

39:55.41 "I'm going to help you"

45:31.86 Conclusion

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Countdown Top 10 Episodes of "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan" 2025

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Taking a look at the top 10 most downloaded episodes of "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan" for 2025. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at the top show from 2025 starting with the 10th most downloaded episode and counting down to number 5. Number 10. Decker Found? Bones Recovered in 100 Day search. 9. Missing Wife Body Parts Found In Woods, Ex Navy Jag Husband Accused. 8. Ghastly New Info On Idaho College Murders Leaked To Public. 7. UPDATE! Baby Decapitated DURING Birth! Jury Awards Parents $2 Million. 6. FBI DNA SHOCKER! Police Bodycam, Screaming on Stairs, Kohberger Case Continues. 5. Horrifying Details: Decker Sisters Deaths-Bags on Heads, Hands Zip tied, Bloody Handprint!

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction - End of 2025

05:06.97 Travis Decker campsite

10:00.70 Skeletal remains, animal or human

15:07.54 Human Remains of Mindi Kassotis

20:35.83 Kohberger leaks on Dateline

25:12.57 Victims of Kohberger

30:15.96 Baby Decapitated

35:12.31 Kohberger - Mortensen interview

40:04.38 Privacy and DNA Search

44:58.27 Decker children, zip tied and suffocated

48:34.58 Conclusion

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From The Black Dahlia to Ed Gein, The Five of Dismemberment! PART 2

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

There are five types of dismemberment, and in this episode, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss necromaniac dismemberment and communication dismemberment.nt.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.03 Introduction - Dismemberment Part 2

02:14.70 Defensive Dismemberment

04:41.09 Walshe "Sudden Adult Death Syndrome"

10:00.54 Taylor Schabusiness

14:55.62 Dhamer/necromaniac

19:41.14 Ed Gein, items of clothing found

24:25.94 Gein made utensils out of human remains

29:21.85 Sending a "message"

34:36.30 Bodies dumped in shallow grave

38:28.38 Conclusion

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From The Black Dahlia to Ed Gein, The Five of Dismemberment!

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Part one of a two part episode covering dismemberment. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about the Black Dahlia case that is back in the headlines again, as well as Ed Gein, and other dismemberment killers we have covered. Imagine opening your garbage can to bring it back up the driveway empty, but it is too heavy, open the door and see a foot! One of the many cases covered in this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan.

Transcribe Highlights

00:01.14 Introduction - Dismemberment

04:20.66 The Black Dahlia case

08:32.33 Margins very neat, cut around midline

14:16.00 Books written by children of "killers"

18:55.24 Defensive Dismemberment

24:49.40 Trying to put distance between suspect and victim

30:15.74 What was the point of the Halderson dismemberment

35:15.67 Victim killed in bedroom

40:07.05 Opening garbage bin and seeing a foot

45:06.71 Schabusiness - Charged with Third Degree sexual abuse

47:43.87 Conclusion part one.....

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1983 Car Fire Death: Charred Remains Buried. Victim Found ALIVE! Who is in GRAVE?

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

May 28, 1983: Badly burned 1977 Honda Civic is found in a field. The body in the driver seat was so charred it was difficult to positively identify. The license plate and other items showed the vehicle belonged to 55-year-old Edward L. Cates - a former Mississippi Assistant Attorney General and Jackson City Commissioner. Cates wife, Dorothy, identified a partly burned shoe found on the left foot of the victim as belonging to Cates. Edward L. Cates was a veteran and received a full military funeral. A month after his funeral Cates was found living under an alias as a Retired Army General, in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack investigate the case of the disgraced lawyer who pleaded guilty to reduced charges and is sentenced to 20-years in prison, without identifying the person found in his burning car who was buried in a grave with Ed Cates name on it.....40 years later, Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan is helping our friends at Othram raise the money needed to move forward with the investigation. Click the link below to find out more

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Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction - Othram, DNA Solves

03:33.40 1977 Honda Civic found fully engulfed, body charred beyond recognition

04:44.50 Weeks after Cates burial, wife gets money orders from Georgia

06:09.30 Body buried, not Cates. Cates faked his death, body not identified

09:58.78 Accelerant used to burn car and body

15:21.34 Person was alive when set on fire

20:12.47 Fractures caused by "post-mortem" handling

25:02.62 Injuries caused by being hit by car

30:15.08 Massive injuries, but skull fractures not mentioned in reports

35:02.88 Cates died in prison

40:05.46 Body did not have teeth

44:09.22 Conclusion

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Beautiful Single Mom Vanishes Without a Trace in 1999: FOUND 2025! Where Was Kimberly Langwell?

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Kimberly Langwell leaves work just after 5 p.m. on July 9, 1999, and vanishes.

Kimberly has dinner plans with her 15-year-old daughter, Tiffani, and new boyfriend, Ken Weatherford, but fails to show up. Tiffani notifies the police immediately, as it is totally out of character for her mother not to show up.

Police find Kimberly's car in the evening, and she disappears in the parking lot of an Eckerds Pharmacy. Searching the vehicle, investigators find her cell phone, but her purse and keys are missing. Nothing appears to be broken, and there is no sign of blood.

Kimberly Langwell is gone.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and what happened after 25 years that led to an arrest in the disappearance and murder of Kimberly Langwell.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.37 Introduction - Forsaken places

03:37.72 Single mother of 15-year-old daughter, vanishes, 1999

06:23.13 Kimberly's car is found in an Eckard Drug Store parking lot

10:43.67 Keys and purse found in car, cell phone missing

15:02.04 Beaumont, Texas, is a busy place

20:18.30 Tip comes from a "trusted informant"

25:10.94 Hollowed out area beneath Rose bedroom

30:12.60 Search warrant has to state what is being sought and where

35:02.20 Synthetic fiber resilient

39:47.80 Conclusion

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Sick Confession: Chopped Up Wife, Put Body Parts In Trash to 'Protect Children'

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Brian Walshe claims he dismembered his wife, Ana, and disposed of her body, but he did not kill her.

On trial for the first-degree murder of his wife, Brian Walshe now claims Ana died of "sudden adult death syndrome" and he dismembered and disposed of her body to protect his children.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the vile case of dismemberment and the new defense Walshe uses at trial.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.44 Introduction, Nothing from Nothing

02:06.62 Evidence is "incompatible with life"

05:46.90 With no body, investigators have to used scene evidence to make a case

10:25.70 The children were 2, 4, and 6 at the time of the murder

15:29.24 Ana's boss reports her missing, not her husband

19:57.56 Walshe trying to determine destruction of teeth

25:05.05 Walshe admits dismembering and disposing of Ana

30:12.41 Defense does not put up any witnesses

34:44.70 Conclusion

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Throat Slashed In Bed!? Billy Crystal Saw Bodies at Scene: The REINER MURDERS

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were killed in their Brentwood home, and their middle son, Nick, has been arrested.

The murders have shocked Hollywood and have brought tributes from young and old who know the family. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the latest information about the double homicides:

Where were the Reiners' bodies found?
Did Billy Crystal see the bodies before officials closed off the crime scene?
What did Nick Reiner's hotel room look like the day his mother and father were found murdered?

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.03 Introduction: All in the Family

03:14.78 Reiner family not much different than other families

06:16.28 The impact of All in the Family

10:10.10 Rob Reiner breathing life into movies like "Stand by Me"

15:13.79 Nick Reiner failed after rehab

20:25.82 Gap in information being released

25:11.64 Nick Reiner at Conan party treating guests harshly

29:57.30 Truth about Throat Slashing

34:08.99 Issue of humanity, not news story

39:58.17 Reiner checks into hotel at 4am

44:50.16 Conclusion

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'86 Cold Case: Golf Pro Found, Scissors in Her Ear, Brain Stabbed. SOLVED!

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

When Sarah Hunter, 32, doesn't show up for work at the Manchester Country Club, a coworker calls police to do a "welfare check". Nothing out of place in her rented room, and the only clue is her car found parked in an odd way at a gas station. The case goes cold but never forgotten. 39-years after she was foun dead, the investigators who never gave up, get a confession! Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at the Cold Case Murder and kidnapping and find out why it took so long to hold someone accountable for the 1986 murder of Golf Pro Sarah Hunter, and the 1981 kidnapping attempt of Laura Sheridan.David Allen Morrison, 65, has pleaded guilty to the 1986 murder of Vermont golfer Sarah Hunter and the 1981 kidnapping of a Western Massachusetts teen, Laura Sheridan. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at the Cold Case Murder and kidnapping and find out why it took so long to hold someone accountable.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.07 Introduction - Golf

02:04.09 1986 Cold Case Murder solved

04:50.04 Investigators build timeline

10:07.19 Weapon of convenience

14:57.08 Murder of Sarah Hunter

20:05.24 Multiple Sharp force stab wounds

25:07.39 Plan was to sexually assault Hunter at gas station

29:58.05 Clothing taken off, grasping something with her hand

34:44.50 Will other victims be found?

37:43.29 Conclusion

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COLD CASE THAWED! 1984 Murder, Sexual Assault: Solved! Killer Sentenced Next Week!

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

In 1984 an 18-year-old former high school sports star is sitting in his car talking to an 18-year-old female when a maniac steps up to his car with a rifle. Terry Arndt tries to protect the girl he is with and attempts to shield her from the gunman, and dies protecting his friend. The killer then sexually assaults the girl and leaves her for dead. The monster leaves and the young woman drives Terry's car to try and get him help. The killer steals the life of one and changes the life of another and walks away, never to be seen again. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case that was so cold over 30 detectives tried to solve the mystery, that was finally cracked this year. DNA Solves is at it again!

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.08 Introduction-blooming

03:00.11 High School Athlete

05:06.26 Dies a hero

09:41.59 Shot fired through window, glass cubes

14:27.64 Killer thinks girl is dead, she is not

20:23.38 Biological evidence collected

24:56.34 Tech finally caught up with killer

29:28.70 Killer only killed once, did not offend again

35:02.17 Killer pleads guilty

40:28.25 Conclusion

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GILGO UPDATE: 1997 Murder/Dismemberment of "Peaches". ARREST!

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

On June 28, 1997 a dismembered body is discovered by a father and his daughter out for a walk in Hempstead Lake State Park in Lakeview, New York. The torso is found in a rubber-maid container along with a red towel and a floral pillowcase. The head, both arms, both legs below the knee, all severed from the body and have not been found. A unique tattoo is found of a peach with a bite taken out of it that leads Investigators to publish a picture of the tattoo in a national tattoo magazine in hopes of finding an artist who remembered such a tattoo. Tattoo artist Steve Cullen in Connecticutt claimed to remember giving the tattoo to a young black woman, 18 or 19 years old. The body remained unidentified and was given the name "Peaches" and she is listed as one of the possible victims of the Long Island Serial Killer. In 2011 the remains of a toddler are discovered that are identified in 2016 as belonging to "Peaches", but still, no name identification. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack dive into the investigation of "Peaches" and her toddler to determine if they are part of the Gilgo murders or not, and if not, who killed the mother and daughter.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.76 Introduction - Peaches

02:01.42 Trip to the Hamptons

04:59.61 Gilgo suspect had to be familiar

10:16.22 Shannon Gilbert family

15:01.62 The science and math are complex

20:26.38 Tattoos

25:10.55 Saving for future science growth

30:04.06 Jane Doe #3 identified as part of "Peaches" from 1997

35:21.35 Communication dismemberment

40:00.41 Because of Gilgo investigation, Tanya and Tatiana identified as not part of LISK

43:58.24 Conclusion

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Executed! Shot To Back of Head. Dismembered and Burned: The Slaughter of Nancy Howery

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Nancy Howery meets Daniel Stearns on a dating app.

She is a 44-year-old divorced mother of two. Stearns is a 32-year-old control freak who says Nancy wasn't "following his dating rules" because she refused to date him exclusively.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the world of dating apps and how Nancy Howery became the victim of Daniel Stearns.

At his sentencing hearing, Nancy's ex-husband said of Stearns, "What he has done to Nancy was demented and defective. It wasn't just murder, okay? It was a savage slaughter."

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.05 Introduction - Geographical locations

02:03.82 Nancy Howery-met guy on dating app

05:01.99 Ex-husband reports Nancy missing

09:00.88 Digital info show Sterns mad Nancy wasn't exclusive

14:33.21 Investigators determined last person to see Nancy

19:02.10 Vehicle found abandoned in Palm Bay

23:48.31 Fingertips - rebuilding tissue

28:45.43 Body burned and dismembered

34:33.21 Bullet tracking through skull

37:50.10 Conclusion

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'Evil Personified' Mom Tortures/Kills Daughter, 38 Weeks Pregnant, Cuts Baby From Womb!

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Rebecca Kay Park is 38 weeks pregnant when she goes missing on November 3.

Three weeks later, her body is found by volunteer searchers. On the same day the body was discovered, authorities arrested Park's fiancé, Richard Falor, 43, and her sister, Kimberly Park, 21.

Those arrests are not directly tied to the murder of Rebecca, but the arrests of her biological mother, Cortney Bartholomew, and stepdad, Bradly Bartholomew, are....

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the latest information on what the prosecutor calls "Evil Personified," the death of Rebecca Kay Parker and her baby.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.00 Joe loves babies

04:06.04 Pregnant woman missing three weeks

09:36.88 Volunteer searchers find body

14:49.78 Last seen with biological mother, fiancé and sister arrested the day Rebecca's body is found

19:47.97 Wounded areas decomposing quicker

25:08.60 Average temps, mid 30s

31:15.44 Biological mother charged in murder of Rebecca

35:06.76 Stabbed, compelled to go into wooded area

40:12.66 Rebecca was kept alive while baby cut from womb

44:57.98 Will case be a double-homicide?

45:45.54 Conclusion

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27 YEARS on Death Row For A MURDER That NEVER HAPPENED: The Release of Jimmie Duncan!

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Wrongfully convicted of a crime that never occurred based on now discredited bite mark forensic pathology testimony from notorious "experts" Michael West and Steven Haynes.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case of Jimmie Duncan, a man convicted for a heinous crime that lands him on death row at Angola. Joe also breaks down the now debunked science of "bite mark" evidence and one of the men who used it to steal nearly 30 years of a man's life.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.15 Introduction: lead into gold

04:15.11 Jimmie Duncan on Death Row for 27 years

09:02.73 Duncan gave two statements at the time of Haley's death

13:45.43 Joe shares story of son being injured

19:18.94 Forensic dentists are amazing, this story is about "bite mark"

23:53.48 Bundy Bite mark in Florida case

28:42.33 Duncan was in Angola - horrible prison

33:42.26 What was the motivation of the doctors

38:37.56 The bite mark taken from the mold made from the accused teeth

42:51.45 Conclusion

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Monster Murders/Buries Wife: Digs Her Up To RAPE HER CORPSE

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Rachel Castillo' sister arrives home on the evening of November 10, 2022 to the apartment she shares with her sister and her sisters two children. Rachel's car is in the parking lot where she normally parks, her keys and phone are inside the apartment, but Rachel is nowhere to be found. One look around the apartment and it looks like something out of a horror movie, blood is everywhere. Police say it is a violent abduction and begin looking for Rachel. 4 days later, the body of Rachel Castillo is found in a shallow grave. Charging her soon to be ex-husband with the murder, Police are shocked to hear what the monster did to the mother of his children. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case from the bloody crime scene in the apartment to the shallow grave where Rachel was buried TWICE.

Transcribe Highlights

00:02.84 Introduction - Necrophilia

04:27.57 Rachel Castillo, 5'2" tall, 105 pounds

08:52.89 Cleaning up blood

13:22.14 Blood separates when out of the body

17:35.80 Blood loss incompatible with life

22:16.44 Police locate body

26:49.08 Did Ali pre-dig the hole in Antelope Valley

30:49.74 Raping the corpse

35:08.14 Dahmer kept victims around for company

38:47.75 Conclusion

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JFK: 60 Years of Questions. The "Best of" Body Bags.

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

November 22, 1963: John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was shot and killed during a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas. The President is taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital. By law, Dallas County Coroner Dr. Earl Rose had jurisdiction over the case and should have performed the autopsy. However, against Dr. Earl Rose's protestations, the body of President Kennedy was wrapped in a sheet, placed in a casket with a broken handle, and flown over 1,300 miles away to Washington DC, where 2 naval doctors, who had never conducted a forensic autopsy performed the autopsy on John F. Kennedy. Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they take a close look at the autopsy that was so bad, 60years later questions are still being asked.

Time Code Highlights
00:01:21 Discussion about the ripple effect of the assassination of JFK

00:04:31 Discussion of the moments following the shooting of JFK in Dealey Plaza

00:06:02 Talk about how autopsy "Standard Procedures" were not followed

00:06:51 Texas state law and jurisdiction over investigation and autopsy

00:07:58 Board Certified Forensic Pathologist Doctor Earl Rose was chief medical examiner for Dallas, Texas at the time and was at Parkland Memorial Hospital

00:09:22 Discussion JFK body taken from Dallas to Washington DC for autopsy

00:10:59 Talk about Secret Service preparing for President trips.

00:11:36 Discussion of JFK physical condition after being shot.

00:12:52 Talk about injuries to JFK, at least 2 gunshot wounds.

00:13:31 Discussion of tracheotomy that was performed to establish an airway

00:15:04 Discussion of Dr. Earl Rose and how his experience was dismissed

00:16:23 Dr. Earl Rose KNEW he was looking at a Murder Investigation.

00:17:47 Discussion Dallas County had jurisdiction over the body.

00:19:03 Talk about autopsy of JFK should have taken place in Dallas

00:20:08 Talk about previous Presidential assassination, Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley and their autopsies.

00:22:10 Discussion of Dr. Earl Rose did the autopsy for Oswald, Officer Tippit, and Jack Ruby.

00:23:36 Discussion of JFK body being taken to Washington DC

00:25:16 Comparing Bethesda Naval Hospital to Walter Reed Hospital

00:26:04 Discussion about doctors chosen to perform JFK autopsy

00:28:42 Talk about why doctors turned bullet wound into tracheostomy

00:29:55 Presidents body wrapped in sheets. Head wrapped in gauze

00:31:09 Discussion of JFK clothing, tie changed the trajectory of round.

00:32:58 Discussion about clothing worn during the assassination

00:33:44 Talk about "magic bullet" going through JFK and Governor Connally,

00:35:08 Discussion Secret Service agents washed interior of Presidential limo.

00:36:03 Talk about crime scenes - bone fragments found and turned in later

00:37:02 Description of President's head, skull came apart in doctors hands.

00:38:04 Discussion of Assessment00:40:02 Talk about x-rays that were done on body

00:41:58 Description of the Bethesda autopsy suite

00:43:51 Ballistics expert Dr. Pierre Fink, forensic pathologist, came to Bethesda

00:44:53 JFK brain was removed before Dr. Fink arrived

00:46:05 Description of "Brain Loafing".

00:47:22 The autopsy of JFK was not a complete autopsy

00:49:21 Discussion of "family wishes" as it applies to the murder of the president.

00:50:48 Compare autopsy of John F. Kennedy and Robert F Kennedy

00:52:36 Discussion about other pathologists available to do autopsy on JFK

00:55:09 No way to know if other injuries suffered by JFK could have been lethal

00:56:04 Commentary - no excuse for what happened with autopsy of JFK

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MURDER! LAPD Confirms Death Of Missing Teen Is MURDER INVESTIGATION!

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Part two of the Celeste Rivas death investigation. Many of the stories leaked to TMZ are false, leading LAPD to officially release some information about the condition of Celeste Rivas body. A court order is now preventing the LA Coroner from releasing details of the Celeste's body when she was found in Tesla registered to David Anthony Burke AKA "D4VD". The investigation has officially been labeled an "Investigation into murder" and autopsy findings will not be released to protect the investigation. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go deeper into what is known about the death of the teen who went missing when she was just 13-years-old.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:01.30 Introduction - Celeste Part Two

00:00:14.71 Identification

00:03:51.48 D4VD Fortnite videos on YouTube

00:05:26.94 D4VD "Romantic Homicide"

00:09:43.30 September 7th - big day for D4VD

00:15:24.69 Using Luminol in search of rental home

00:20:00.36 D4VD close circle of friends living in rented mansion

00:25:02.65 Tracking phones

00:30:05.24 Assistance dismembering body

00:36:07.31 Dismembering a body with non-surgical equipment

00:40:07.54 Environmental conditions impact on decomposition

00:46:09.48 Celeste Body being moved - maybe not panic

00:50:07.35 Conclusion - there will be another update

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Decapitated, Decomposing, Remains of Missing 13-Year-Old Found in Abandoned Tesla!

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

A 2023 Tesla Model Y was abandoned in the Hollywood Hills along Bluebird avenue on July 29, 2025. The dented and dirty Tesla has Texas license plates. After several weeks of no movement, a neighbor reports the car abandoned, starting a timeline in the middle of a horrible story that includes Celeste Rivas, reported missing from her parents home on April 5, 2024 when she is just 13, and a 20-year-old singing star on-the-rise, D4VD, on his first world tour promoting his first full-length CD, "Withered". How did the dismembered, decomposing body of Celeste Rivas end up in the frunk of an abandoned Tesla registered to D4VD?

Transcribe Highlights

00:00:02.45 Introduction - Celeste Rivas case

00:01:25.02 Suspect identified, not officially named

00:02:08.82 Due to volume of info, this is part 1

00:03:05.66 Body found in frunk of Tesla

00:04:59.97 Tesla abandoned in the Hollywood Hills

00:10:20.12 Smell of death

00:15:07.96 Movement of wrecker could cause bag to leak

00:20:06.74 Tesla is 2023 Model y - abandoned

00:25:32.97 Victim didn't crawl in bag and seal it

00:30:29.09 Explaining problem with a "wet" body

00:35:35.67 Took 10 days to identify Celeste Rivas

00:40:05.21 Getting prints, other evidence from bag containing remains

00:44:39.22 Celeste reported missing April 5, 2024 - she was 13

00:49:24.02 Conclusion of Part 1

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MURDER on Cruise Ship: Cheerleader, 18, Found Stuffed Under Bed, Who Killed Anna?

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Anna Kepner is on the Carnival Horizon on a 6-day cruise with her father, stepmother, and other family members.

Feeling sick at dinner, she excuses herself and goes to her cabin. When she doesn't show up for breakfast, the family goes to her cabin, but she is gone. A massive search of the 14-story floating city of 4,000-plus people is conducted without success.

At around 11 a.m., a maid finds Anna wrapped in a sheet, stuffed under a bed, and covered with a life jacket. Dead.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the difficulty of investigating a death at sea on a cruise ship and try to find the truth of what happened to the 18-year-old cheerleader on the trip of a lifetime.

Transcribe Highlights
00:03.30 Introduction - claustrophobic

02:08.57 18-year-old found dead on cruise ship

05:12.17 Story has changed since it broke

10:18.26 FBI Involved

15:30.26 Info used in first reports

20:16.47 Who declared "death"

25:07.30 FBI responds with a lot of manpower

30:30.25 Who will be tasked with releasing information

35:41.67 Where does investigation start?

39:52.30 Conclusion - update coming soon

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SHOCKER! Unsolved 1997 Rape/Murder SOLVED! Who Killed Margaret Anselmo

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Margaret Anselmo, 45, a floral designer, mother of two, left her apartment on the morning of January 3rd, 1997, to cash a check. A delivery driver found her body, face down in a snowy alley later that day. She had been raped and beaten to death. Police believed she was the victim of an apparent random act of violence. Her cause of death was due to blunt force trauma to the head. Her killer, not identified. Until now. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the life and brutal death of Margaret Anselmo as her very cold case from 1997 heats up, thaws out, and a suspect is identified. To find out how you can help Othram Labs continue the quest to solve the unsolvable, thaw out the coldest of cold cases, go to www.dnasolves.com

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.00 Introduction telling stories of the dead

03:01.22 January 3, 1997 Margaret Anselmo going to cash a check

08:26.31 Drag marks in the alley

14:08.92 Did Margaret have a regular route she took?

19:53.22 STR looking into the "known suspects"

24:20.14 Othram labs looks like a "starship"

29:14.34 Suicide is rarely mentioned in press

33:44.91 One piece of puzzle helps connect

34:11.62 Police say "if suspect was alive, he would be charged"

39:08.10 Donating to Othram

41:00.92 Conclusion

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Killer Massage From Porn Star Leaves Ex-Husband HEADLESS!

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Former porn star Devyn Michaels is accused of killing her ex-husband, father of her two daughters, by striking him in the head while giving him a massage, then cutting off his head. Police uncover a strange story - Devyn Michaels is married to her ex-husband's son, her stepson, and her stepson/husband is now half-brother to her two daughters. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack pull back the curtain on another strange story out of Las Vegas...but still haven't found the head

Transcript Highlights

00:00.03 Introduction

00:14.82 Description of massage

01:32.62 Massage with decapitation

03:58.90 Suspect and her porn names

08:09.93 Mom discovers headless body of son

12:56.06 Toxic chemicals

18:29.70 Victim Body was "smoking"

23:26.68 Scientific conclusion?

29:19.61 Story of Judge and son

34:03.07 An awareness you have been struck

38:02.82 Polygraph reaction

41:05.14 Conclusion

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Naked, Covered in Feces, Jailers Laugh as Inmate Freezes To Death in 'The Freezer'

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

On January 12, 2023, the family of Tony Mitchell called for a mental health welfare check on the 33-year-old.

He has sprayed his face and body with black spray paint and claims to have a "portal to hell." When deputies show up, Mitchel discharges a weapon.

Deputies are able to get Mitchell into custody, and even though he is obviously suffering a mental health crisis, Mitchell is taken to the Walker County Jail and placed in a holding cell with a cement floor, no running water, no bathroom facilities, no elevated place for a bed, no blankets, and a drain in the floor for when jailers have to hose it out.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss what happened to Tony Mitchell, a man who was left naked and covered in feces in a holding cell nicknamed the "Freezer" for two weeks.

Transcribe Highlights

00:06.89 Introduction

01:22.04 The Count of Monte Cristo

05:08.34 Tony Mitchell in jail

10:31.72 Tony Mitchell was having a mental health crisis

15:25.49 Justify treatment saying "he shot at cops"

20:45.54 Medical staff contracted to care for inmates

24:59.03 Mitchell holding cell not meant for longterm hold

30:13.18 Not toilet, no running water, drain in middle

35:37.41 Mitchell body temp dropping

40:10.44 Cold can bring about memory issues

45:17.42 Nurse begged jailers for three hours to take Mitchell to hospital

50:03.26 Over 20 people indicted

52:49.10 Conclusion

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Granny Shot In Head, Buried Naked Under Sheets, Home Ransacked: Where is Granddaughter?

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Neighbors call for a welfare check on Tammy King after not seeing her for a couple days. Tammy is 61, and is raising her 17-year-old granddaughter, Tara King. Law Enforcement does the welfare check and find Tammy dead under a pile of sheets in the middle of her bedroom floor, and it looks like the house was ransacked! Tara is not home, and neither is her boyfriend, 18-year-old Uriah Urick. Tammy has been dead for a couple days. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will take a look under the covers placed on the body of Tammy King, and see if there is a chance the killer will be caught.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.57 Introduction - Grandparent

04:03.63 Grandma raises granddaughter

08:06.49 Tara King, Uriah Urick

13:31.94 Welfare check

18:28.66 Collecting rare weapons

24:04.49 Body Covered

34:17.72 Size of ammunition

39:26.08 Drug dealer involved

42:45.83 Conclusion

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Four People Beaten to Death to Create Plot For Movie!

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Deputy Jason Loftsgard is the first officer on the scene of a possible carbon monoxide poisoning death.

He checks on the victims, Romondus Cooper, 44; Amanda Parker, 33; Keonna Ryan, 26; and Brent Brown, 34, and finds only Brown to still be alive.

The deputy also notes, "These people didn't die of natural causes."

State Trooper Tylor Fairbanks said. "Carbon monoxide does not cause your head to collapse on itself, and carbon monoxide poisoning also does not leave pools of blood on the ground."

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the entire scene, from the carbon monoxide poison call to the trial of Luke Truesdell that is going on right now.

Is it possible Luke Truesdell really killed four people with a pipe just to create the plot for a true-crime movie?

Transcript Highlights

00:00.52 Introduction, 2019 coverage of murder with a corn rake

03:05.95 Murder weapon is a metal pipe

06:57.81 Who was the main target?

12:11.61 Carbon Monoxide poisoning

18:18.11 How do you beat 4 people to death

23:03.53 The term "Brain Them"

28:03.99 Determine who was killed first

33:00.01 Suspect show himself to investigators without knowing

39:15.42 The Most Dangerous Game

44:57.51 Each victim beaten to death with metal pipe

49:55.91 Looking for degree of trauma

54:37.06 Conclusion: Trial ongoing - Will update

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Hero. Legend. Buford Pusser and the Cold Case Unsolved Murder of His Wife

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Buford Pusser went on a domestic call in the early morning hours of August 12, 1967. Pusser's wife, Pauline, went with him on the call. On the way a car pulled up alongside them and shots were fired, killing her and leaving Buford shot in the face. Buford survived the attempt on his life, Hollywood came calling and a feature film about Buford became a big hit, Walking Tall. The legend of Buford Pusser only grew when he died in a car accident right before he was set to star in the sequel to Walking Tall. It would be easy to blame Hollywood for covering up the truth about the man to make him into a hero, but that isn't the truth. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the investigation into the unsolved Cold Case murder of Pauline Pusser and attempted murder of Sheriff Buford Busser.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.12 Introduction - Hero

01:41.83 Walking Tall

05:10.58 The story of Buford Pusser

09:03.79 The dead tell tales

15:10.75 The ambush of Buford and his wife

20:03.38 Looking at surgical notes before autopsy

25:20.93 Clandestine burials

30:18.23 Domestic calls are to toughest

35:02.19 Pauline had a healing broke nose at death

39:51.21 Shot in the back of the head

45:05.22 Conclusion

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SHOCKING! 314 Human Bodies Found in Nevada Desert!

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

The headline might be a little misleading but....if 314 bodies were dumped from their caskets and left in the hot desert sun to become one with the desert, you would probably take notice. In truth, the cremains of 314 people were found about an hour south of Las Vegas, neatly placed in the middle of nowhere. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack begin with questions that might not have answers as they discuss the cremains found in Nevada and what will happen next.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.33 Introduction

01:39.69 What to do with Cremains of a loved one

04:13.91 300 piles of human cremated remains

09:09.23 Remains of Michael Jordan's father

14:34.82 Neat piles of cremains means something

19:26.91 A lot or regulations with cremation

24:49.41 Cremains are left in piles

29:42.45 Investigation will involve multiple agency's

34:18.39 Positive identification of the dead

39:45.31 Nevada is a coroner state

45:00.68 Nightmare scenario for death investigation

48:34.32 Conclusion

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Severed Foot 2nd Floor. Body on 5th: Jump? Fall? Thrown? Death of Caitlin Tracey

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Caitlin Tracey is reported missing by her husband Adam Beckerink. He claims he hasn't seen his wife in a month. The next day, a foot is found on the second floor stairwell. A search of the rest of the stairwell inside the condo building and the body of Caitlin Tracey is discovered on the 5th floor. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack breakdown the relationship of Caitlin and Adam Beckerink, accusations of domestic violence, 911 calls, and the medical examiner report and what was found in the examination of Caitlin Tracey. Did she Jump? Did she fall? Was she thrown?

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00.07 Introduction

00:02:43.52 The death of Caitlin Tracey

00:05:21.13 Husband reports her missing, day before her body is found

00:11:11.78 Man found, public place, advanced decomposition

00:15:27.36 Every dead body is a murder until proven different

00:20:21.53 Not celebrating getting married

00:25:12.68 Domestic violence

00:30:26.91 Belt buckle struck victim on face and neck

00:35:06.87 People fall from height

00:40:09.43 Other insults on her body

00:45:50.38 Could a person thrown themselves over the side without hitting sides

00:50:30.29 Looking for bruising that doesn't match up

00:55:07.34 Old blood versus newer blood

00:57:13.23 Conclusion

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1994 Murder SOLVED 2025: Killer Claims He is Serial Killer, Only One Victim

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Robin Lawrence was stabbed to death in her home on November 18, 1994.

She was stabbed 49 times and her body wasn't found for two days. Her 2-year-old daughter, Nicole, was not harmed, but for two days she went without food, water, or her necessary medication having had a liver transplant as an infant. Evidence was found, including DNA, but no arrest was made, and the case went cold.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about the background of the case and how a detective noticed a brown stain on a wash cloth that contained all the evidence needed to catch the killer....30 years after the murder.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.48 Introduction - Serial Killer

02:28.94 Only killed once

05:26.03 1994 Cold Case Murder solved

10:06.28 2-year-old, alone with dead mom

15:01.19 Victim stabbed 49 times

20:13.30 Nicole used tissues to stop blood

25:34.21 Suspect attracted to victim

30:16.59 "Gaping" wound usually a slice

35:18.47 Blood and DNA talked about in news

40:29.10 Victim's father, 101, lived to see arrest

44:35.96 Cold Case Detectives reach out to Parabon Nano Labs

50:25.28 Conclusion

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Killer Writes in Victim's Blood: Catch Me If You Can: Stephen Bryant Caught, Execution set

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Stephen Bryant became a one man crime wave in October 2004, murdering three men, attempted to kill another man and committed some robberies as well. Bryant dipped a pot holder in the blood of one of his victims and wrote "Victim number four in two weeks, catch me If you can" on the wall. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the crimes of Stephen Bryant, his victims, how they were murdered, and why Bryant gets to choose his method of execution.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.03 Introduction - Buffet

03:21.10 8 day crime spree

08:15.43 Killer gets time to "get right"

14:43.16 Firing squad execution

18:41.71 Why do autopsy on execution

24:42.77 Cruel and unusual

30:02.90 Crime spree begins 18 months after release from prison

35:40.44 What's next?

39:41.74 Conclusion

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Smelly Dirt, Maggots, Shallow Grave: Kidnapped From Work, Death of Kada Scott

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Kada Scott, 23, recent graduate of Penn State, working overnight job at an assisted living facility vanishes shortly after arriving for her shift on October 4. A massive search effort takes place until police get a very specific anonymous tip that leads them to Kada's body on October 18. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the clues that helped police collar a suspect, and what investigators really discovered when the remains of Kada Scott were found in a shallow grave. Keon King, a 21-year-old man whom police allege was the last person in contact with Scott, has since been arrested and charged with murder, arson and tampering with evidence in connection with the case.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.03 Introduction - College Professor

02:18.15 Kada Scott, Penn State Graduate

05:11.97 Working in assisted living facility from 10pm-6am

09:15.54 Kada met someone in the parking lot

14:56.56 Working overnight makes your really tired

19:26.79 Police don't always share everything they know

24:44.66 Cell phones connect to towers, place us in certain places

30:04.26 Suspect will focus on the abandoned building

35:33.89 Before cell phones, you had to find a phone booth

40:33.21 Kada had gunshot wound to the head

46:02.73 Kidnapped October 4, body found October 18

51:06.81 We will do follow-up, Conclusion

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Gruesome! Brain in Blender! Teen Shares Gory Details, Decapitates Mom's Boyfriend

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

A gruesome story out of Staten Island: a 45-year-old man is beaten to death with a meat tenderizer by his girlfriend's 19-year-old son.

Damien Hurstel allegedly told police he wanted to know what it was like to kill somebody. His plan was to kill Anthony Casalaspro, 45, cut off his head, and liquefy his body in a blender.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss what happened when Hurstel attempts to carry out his fiendish plan and how a meat tenderizer, a handsaw, a spoon, a blender, and a bathtub are all part of the crime scene.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.03 Introduction: No Country For Old Men

03:01.10 Learning from failure

08:10.78 Mental Health issues

12:18.65 Desecrating remains, displayed body parts

17:54.27 Arrival on scene

22:05.02 Cutting Body into pieces is hard

28:04.13 Suspects wants to know what it is like to kill somebody

33:36.79 Matching up the pattern from weapon

38:10.84 Blood in the blender would be everywhere

43:00.20 Mom says "why did you kill him, I still love him"

44:53.74 Conclusion

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COLD CASE SHOCKER!!! Smoothie Straw Links Killer to 1984 Rape/Murder of Teen

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

On November 10, 1984, 16-year-old Theresa Fusco was fired from her job at the snack bar at the Hot Skates roller skating rink in Lynbrook, on the south shore of Long Island, New York.

She was seen leaving in tears at 9:45 p.m., to walk to her home four blocks away. She did not come home, however.

On December 5, 1984, her naked body was found covered with leaves and debris in a wooded area not far from the roller rink. An autopsy revealed Theresa was raped and died as a result of ligature strangulation.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack explain how three men were convicted and sent to prison for a rape and murder they did not commit, and how evidence found at the time of the murder brought about the arrest of a man more than 40 years after the crime.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.07 Introduction, cold coffee

05:55.58 Theresa Fusco, 16

10:40.20 Body found nearby wooded area

15:33.76 1984 autopsy led to arrest in 2025

19:10.03 Getting a false confession

25:05.93 Evidence of trauma, strangulation, blunt force trauma

30:37.56 3 men go to prison for a rape murder they did not commit

35:03.84 Case starts off cold in 2005

40:02.17 Prosecutor says the match is100%

42:25.42 Conclusion

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SOLVED! 1964 Torture Murder by "Sadistic Sex Maniac" 61 YEARS AFTER MURDER

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

On September 13, 1964, Catherine Blackburn is - bludgeoned, raped, and tortured. A crime so heinous the local coroner said "We're dealing with a sadistic sex maniac." Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at a murder that happened in 1964 and when unsolved until 2025. Joe explains the injuries that include: fractured skull, stab wound in her neck, slashed throat, and heated steak knives on a gas stove used to burn "shapes into her lips and chest". Catherine Blackburn bled to death, and her case went unsolved for more than 60 years.

Transcribe Highlights

00:01.55 Introduction

03:34.72 Exhumation - Tammy Daybell

08:17.05 Monster waiting around the corner

13:23.15 Coroner said whoever did this was a "sadistic sex maniac"

18:21.88 Mutiple areas of hemorrhage

23:40.19 Victim was targeted

28:41.02 Underlying impression of a name became a lead

33:01.64 Forensic detective got into the case in 2018

39:94.96 Exhuming the body of a suspect

43:30.97 Burglars going into private areas

48:36.67 Case Solved, Conclusion

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OVER 50 Bodies Pulled From Houston Bayous! Serial Killer at Work?

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Does Houston have a Serial Killer dumping bodies in the bayous of Harris County Texas? The reason the headline is being tossed about is because of the number of bodies being pulled from the bayous over the last three years is now at 53 - and there will be more by the end of the year. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the facts of the dead bodies and answer the question...Is a Serial Killer dumping bodies in the Bayous of Houston?

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.11 Introduction: Fondest childhood memory, cane pole and a worm

02:43.94 Bodies in the water around Houston

05:30.16 Bayou water is moving

10:06.47 Real numbers

15:02.50 Undetermined manner of death

20:03.37 Looking for patterns

25:10.00 Homeless woman dies, body decomposes between two guys over 6 months

30:35.77 Lady Bird Lake deaths in Austin

35:04.01 Truth needs to have a day

40:02.15 Theory of "Smiley Face Killers"

45:22.95 Conclusion

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Hero Of Innocence Movement: Edward T Blake

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

He was the first to use PCR testing on crime-scene DNA, inspiring a practice that has freed thousands of wrongfully convicted people.

Edward T. Blake passed away due to pancreatic cancer at the age of 80. He is credited with being THE forensic expert that sparked the Innocence Movement, using PCR to help set wrongfully convicted people free.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go behind the scenes of the life of Forensic Scientist Edward T. Blake and explore how the technology he helped develop showed up on the big screen as Jurassic Park but showed up in courtrooms across the country as a way to prove a convicted person innocent of the crime as charged.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.03 Introduction

02:12.96 Edward Blake has died, led to exoneration of more than 50 people

06:26.42 Peter Neufeld calls Edward Blake the Ted Williams of DNA

09:53.90 What is a "forensic prostitute"

15:16.69 using fragmented DNA

20:08.12 DNA Replication and Jurassic Park

25:08.04 Blake was a problem solver

30:12.93 Work as a forensic scientist

35:07.77 Testing methodology

40:01.81 Blake set the standard

42:07.71 Conclusion

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FAKE PHOTOS! FALSE CLAIMS! The TRUTH About The MURDER of CHARLIE KIRK!

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

The fake photos, false claims and wild conspiracy theories swirling around the murder of Charlie Kirk are nothing more than click bait for people trying to build a following on the death of a man who wanted to engage in a truthful discussion of our differences in an attempt to find common ground. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a close look at what is really happening in the discussion about the murder of Charlie Kirk. Why does Joe call it a murder investigation? Who is really in charge of the investigation? Why are some people so ready to embrace unfounded, made up stories, while ignoring the facts of what actually took place when Charlie Kirk was murdered in front of the world?

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.03 Introduction

01:32.62 The Death of Charlie Kirk

05:06.05 Murder of Assassination

09:57.63 Prosecutor press conference

14:25.00 Solving a murder, not a political event

19:02.29 Claims about autopsy

24:28.32 APs and Laterals

29:35.10 Autopsy would take place at a specific time

34:17.85 Discussion of ammunition size and speed

39:11.01 ATF might be consulting the case

43:03.48 Candace Owens "claims" of "inside info"

48:08.91 Murder Investigation

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SHOCKING! Human Head Bowl, Human Skin Lampshade: Truth About Ed Gein

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

He is called "The Butcher of Plainfield" "Grandfather of Gore "The Ghoul of Plainfield" and has been a source of inspiration of countless movies that take a small truth about the life of Ed Gein and spin an entire book or movie series designed to scare those who dare read or watch. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go behind the stories and tell the true story of a man who admitted to killing two women in the 50s but is suspected of so much more.

Transcribe Highlight

00:02.83 Introduction

02:11.40 Conversation about Ed Gein

05:02.30 Scary movies using parts of Ed Gein story

10:09.05 Grave Robbing

15:08.53 Body exam done in a mortuary

20:13.24 Deputy sent to Ed Gein's house, finds decapitated victim

25:24.90 Gein admitted killing two women - did he practice on the dead?

30:09.33 Waste basket made of human skin, skulls mounted on bedposts

35:10.80 Gein made belt out of nipples

40:23.39 Movies using parts of Ed Gein story

42:03.25 Conclusion

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Son Confesses on TV: "I Killed My Parents, Buried Them in Backyard"

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Franz and Theresia Kraus are a retired couple. In 2025 he is 92 and she is 83. The problem is that nobody has seen them in several years. Their social security checks are automatically deposited and their adult son, Lorenz Kraus, tends to other matters for them. After years of attempting to contact the couple without success, the social security office asks police to do a "welfare check" on Franz and Theresia Kraus. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at what happened when police do the welfare check and how their "loving son" Lorenz Kraus ends up on local tv confessing to killing his parents and burying their bodies in the backyard.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.11 Introduction

01:16.21 Man buries mom and dad in backyard

04:36.12 Mountain Family Comes to big city to transport body of their loved one on a flatbed truck

08:59.11 News Anchor gets son to admit murder during interview

14:37.45 Early Luminol story

20:10.37 Body decomposing in soil will cause sinking

25:11.76 Newsman interviews murderer

30:14.33 Suffocated father

34:31.88 Admits killing in 2017

40:13.36 Skeletal remains can breakdown

44:27.65 Conclusion

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She-Devil! Killer Shows Off Piece Of Her Victim's Skull: Death Scheduled 09.30.26

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Christa Pike killed a classmate in Job Corps, carved a pentagram in her chest with a box cutter, kept a piece of crushed skull as a trophy, and showed it to friends.

Sentenced to death for the January 1995 murder, she finally gets her date with death, but it is still another year away!

On January 12, 1995, Colleen Slemmer, 19, was lured to her death by Christa Pike, Tadaryl Shipp, and Shadolla Pederson. Pike believed Colleen was trying to steal her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp. Colleen's friends say she was not involved with Shipp. J

oseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the beating that brought about Colleen's death. And how Christa Pike saved a piece of Colleen's skull as a trophy she shows to other members of Job Corps. Shadolla Pederson turned informant and got probation.

Tadaryl Shipp was sentenced to life but comes up for parole this month. Christa Pike was sentenced to death, and the date of her execution has been set for September 2026.

Transcribe Highlights

00:03.86 Introduction

03:29.97 What Christa Pike did in killing Colleen

08:31.69 Must be death penalty qualified

13:02.52 Job Corps

18:02.64 Christa Pike lured Colleen

23:32.31 Brain coming out of skull

27:37.26 Moving skin around skull

31:37.68 Long cut down Colleen's back

36:29.24 Colleen endured great pain during beating

41:07.05 Crime solved within 36 hours

44:26.51 Conclusion

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SHOCKER! Wife and Daughter Testify Against Dad in Murder of Future Son-in-law

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Kirby Carpenter was a 36-year-old entrepreneur dealing in gold, silver, and coins. He was known to carry large sums of cash at all times, was found dead on December 2, 2022. Authorities believe he was murdered with a shotgun or a firearm that fires shotgun-style shells on November 30, shortly after returning home from a grocery trip. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the case behind the murder and the trial that has just ended.

Transcribe Highlights
00:05.83 Introduction

03:23.12 Sounds like "movie of the week"

05:00.85 Spence steals horse "Goliath"

09:59.19 Murdered by gun that fires "shotgun like" shells

14:43.31 Different guns for different hunting

20:12.78 Multiple bullet holes using shotgun

25:09.84 Drag marks lead to shooting location

30:07.44 If a robbery, body wouldn't have been moved

35:02.15 $2,000 in cash in a pocket

40:04.25 Caitlin is the one who "found" Kirby

45:36.01 SHOCKING MISTRIAL!

Conclusion

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Shocker! Body Found In Well in 2006 IDENTIFIED! Murder Victim Born in 1881!

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

The remains of an unknown female were discovered in a well shaft in Saskatoon's Sutherland neighborhood in 2006. Now, almost 20 years later, she has been identified as a woman born in 1881! Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go behind the shocking find and discover who the woman was and how she was murdered! Alice Spence (nee Burke), a woman of Irish ancestry who was about 35 years old at the time of her death, sometime between 1916 and 1918. Saskatoon and Toronto Police Services Team with Othram to Identify Canada's "Woman in the Well". Check out DNASolves.com

Transcribe Highlights

00:08.72 Introduction -History

03:17.40 Ben Franklin's bathroom

05:20.03 Human remains in burlap bag, placed in a barrel, found in a well

10:01.36 Murderer did good job hiding body

15:30.58 Forensic anthropologist at work

20:25.39 Joe Loves the Saints

25:05.77 Atl, body stashed down manhole

30:12.75 Hyoid bone could still be intact

35:20.77 Gilgo, burlap sacks used

40:14.48 Othram is changing lives

45:12.44 Body finally identified with trauma from murder

47:03.89 Conclusion

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Alleged DRUNK DRIVER, HITS MOM ON BIKE, DRIVES 8 BLOCKS WITH BODY IN WINDSHIELD

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

After hitting Kjersten Strang on her Ebike with such force her body lands wedged in the windshield of his Nissan Altima, Xavier Rigby, 22, continues driving with the single mom embedded in his windshield.

Finally, after eight blocks, her body dislodges from the windshield and lands on the ground, but Rigby doesn't stop, he keeps driving.

He is captured a mile away at a closed liquor store!

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at the vehicle vs bicycle story and Joe explains how investigators will determine what happened and where, even when the crime scene is 8 blocks long.

Transcribe Highlights
00:02.52 Introduction

00:31.09 Learning to drive

04:20.61 Kjersten Strang hit riding bike, lands in windshield

09:25.84 Driver continues driving

13:59.45 Accident investigation course

18:18.40 Car hit rear tire of bike

22:56.58 Looking for pieces of body

27:03.60 Suicide by vehicle

31:31.94 Pimp hit by cab

35:39.82 Fatal Vehicle vs Bicycle crash

39:47.92 Woman has armed ripped off body

41:35.31 Conclusion

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UNSOLVED! Burning Man Murder! Nobody Saw Anything? Really??

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

The homicide investigation into the death of Vadim Kruglov, a 37-year-old Russian national who called Washington State home, continues as the 70,000 attendees and a killer leave Black Rock City. While everyone focused on the Burning Man, the dying man was laying in a pool of his own blood, bleeding out from a stab wound to the throat. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss what the crime scene is like when the murder happens in a temporary city, where thousands of people are standing around one another but nobody sees a man murdered. A festival of art and piece ends with fire and murder.

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SOLVED! 2011 Cold Case Murder of Teen: Justice For Blake Chappell

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Joseph Scott Morgan challenges his class at Jacksonville State University to try and solve a cold case. Two years in a row, two different classes and students chose the unsolved murder of Blake Chappell. Blake Chappell tells his mother he is having the best night of his life with his girlfriend at the East Coweta High School Homecoming Dance. By 6am the next morning, he is missing. Two months later, Blake's body is found in a creek, shot in the head. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the story and how after 14 years, police have arrested Scotty Elliott Smith and have charged him with the 2011 murder of Blake Chappell!

Transcribe Highlights

00:02.06 Introduction, benchmarks in a child's life

02:04.24 Background on Blake Chappell

05:07.36 Looking at a "Cold Case"

09:15.68 JSU Students choose to work Chappell case

14:16.64 Blake walks back to girlfriend's house

19:25.73 5:00am Blake walking, texting

24:14.77 Blake ended up in jail previously

28:42.00 Police playing things close to the vest

33:27.98 Blake was found in his underwear, shot in head

39:07.60 Police arrest Scotty Elliott Smith for murder

45:32.74 Smith had a long criminal record

50:31.54 Conclusion

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Missing 13-year-old FOUND: Dismembered, Decomposing, in D4vd's Tesla

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

On Sept. 8, the Los Angeles Police Department was called to a tow yard in Hollywood over reports of a foul odor coming from a vehicle. The LAPD found decomposing, dismembered, human remains, wrapped in a bag hidden in the front trunk area of a tesla registered in Hempstead, Texas, to 20-year-old, David Anthony Burke. He is known by another name as one of the hottest singer/songwriters on the planet, D4vd. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the victim and how she ended up in the Tesla owned by D4vd. The car was towed from the street in front of the house where D4vd was staying in the Hollywood Hills. When the human remains found in his car were identified, she turned out to be a girl who went missing when she was just 13-years-old. Her name was Celeste Rivas Hernandez, from Lake Elsinore, 70 miles away from where her body was found.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction, early memories

03:03.83 Somebody caught a whiff of somethin

05:03.85 Tesla Tech might solve the crime

10:11.21 D4vd builds music career from YouTube gaming

14:12.36 Neighbors had car towed

18:34.04 Tesla registered to D4vd

23:18.07 Car will provide a lot of info

28:37.64 Impact of dealing with dismembered body

34:10.66 Victim went "missing" at 13

39:49.69 Post-mortem manipulation of body

43:13.34 Breaking a saw dismembering a person

48:49.73 What did victim leave behind

50:01.20 Conclusion

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Introducing NYPOSTcast: A brand new daily podcast by the New York Post

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:49:33 +0000

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Decomposing Bodies Found Behind Hidden Door In Funeral Home: Fake Ashes Given To Families!

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

The now former Pueblo County Colorado Coroner, Brian Cotter, has been replaced after an inspection of his Funeral Home found 20 decomposing bodies behind a hidden door. The bodies were supposed to have been cremated. Cotter told inspectors he gave grieving families "fake ashes". Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at Davis Mortuary in Pueblo, Colorado as well as similar cases where hundreds of bodies that were supposed to be buried or cremated ended up being desecrated while their loved ones became victims of fraud.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.00 Introduction

00:44.66 Hiding a crime behind a closed door

04:54.49 Pueblo County has a new Coroner

09:05.34 Smell of human decomposition

14:03.03 Why were the bodies not buried or cremated?

20:07.57 Somebody had to know something was wrong

25:03.44 Some families would never get over the trauma

29:48.35 Storing bodies without embalming

34:19.74 North Georgia, 300 bodies, not buried, not cremated

39:28.65 This is happening more often lately

42:36.80 Conclusion

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MURDER in Broad Daylight: The Assassination of Charlie Kirk

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Charlie Kirk was a lightning rod for many people around the world. Some people loved him, some people didn't.

Kirk believed that when we stop talking, having a dialogue with those with whom we disagree, bad things happen.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack were called to be on the air minutes after the shooting of Charlie Kirk before his death was announced. Since then, Joseph Scott Morgan has been on at least one show each day talking about this murder in broad daylight.

Transcribe Highlights

00:13.15 Introduction

01:46.38 The Death of Charlie Kirk

05:04.66 Snyper had backpack to brace himself

09:40.54 College Campus filled with CCTV

14:00.17 Cartridges will provide info

19:54.71 Round drops as it goes down range

24:04.54 Concealed weapon used to kill Charlie Kirk

29:01.53 Description of area and crowd

33:43.00 Gun found in wooded area

39:14.10 Text messages between Robinson and boyfriend

43:36.94 Conclusion

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Recorded in front of "LIVE" audience at CrimeCon 2025, Denver!

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

What's in a name? For Joseph Scott Morgan, it is very special, a family history, a personal story, and a challenge to make life a little less ordinary. In this very special episode of "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan", Joe talks about the man he is named after as well as a family history that is very deep, very dark, and very scary, but in the end, a life filled with unicorns, daffodils, and rainbows. The story begins with his namesake, his uncle, Joseph F. Killian (1903-1951)

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.00 Introduction

03:33.98 Othram determined to identify everyone

08:33.43 Joseph Killian, murdered

13:09.70 A daylight execution, 4 shots fired

19:26.89 Joseph, named after "uncle"

25:32.28 Dad moves Mom and Joe to Georgia, and leaves

30:02.29 Landed back in New Orleans, going to school

35:41.35 Autopsy on bodies so fresh, organs still warm

40:01.72 Conclusion

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TRAVIS DECKER FOUND? BONES RECOVERED IN 100 DAY SEARCH!

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

The search for Travis Decker began when he failed to return his three daughters to their mother after court ordered visitation. It took less than 72 hours to find the girls bodies, suffocated with bags over their heads in the campground area their homeless father called 'home'. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack update the story as bones have been discovered "in the area" where Decker allegedly killed his daughters.

Transcribe Highlights

00:01.57 Introduction

05:05.93 Travis Decker is homeless living in a camp he made in the woods

09:30.35 The Decker girls bodies are found where there father was living

15:03.03 Bones found near Decker campsite

20:20.68 Why were bones found after three months of searching?

25:32.15 Suzanne Morphew bones were bleached white when found

30:42.68 Fractured, small parts of bone can be carried off my animals

35:22.50 Animal bones will be more robust than human bones

40:19.62 Decker used grocery bags around campsite, used to suffocate girls

45:21.88 Bones from big animals possible

49:12.12 Conclusion

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SHOCKER! Noah Presgrove Update! Attorney Blames Noah!

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Noah Presgrove's estate filed a wrongful death lawsuit in June naming Jack Newton, his father, Caleb Newton, and five others.

So far, the only response came from Jack Newton and Caleb Newton. The other defendants in the wrongful death suit include Avery Jo Howard, Carter Combs, Johnnie Trout Wilcoxson Jr., Stevie Howard, and Logan Jernigan.

Avery, Carter, and Logan allegedly threw the party Noah attended on Johnnie's property, in a home owned by Stevie, according to the suit. In the wrongful death suit, Jack Newton is alleged to have gotten alcohol for the party, and his father, Caleb Newton, allowed them to use the vehicle that Noah rolled over.

The UPDATE is the response filed by the attorney for Jack Newton (supposed to be Noah's best friend) and his father, who claim Noah's death two years ago was "an unavoidable accident, casualty, and misfortune," AND they blame Noah!!!!!!

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.42 Introduction

02:35.80 Noah Presgrove Horror Movie

08:12:51 Pedestrian vs Vehicle

10:20.99 Story of decapitation in car wreck

15:42.11 Injuries suffered by Noah

19:57.61 10 Broken ribs and more

25:16.27 Description of road rash

30:08.08 Skin torn to the bone

35:15.49 Were teeth knocked out or fractured

39:15.13 Was intoxicated

46:42.97 Conclusion

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NOT GUILTY! 100 Years Before OJ: Did Lizzie Borden Get Away With MURDER?

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Lizzie Borden was arrested days after the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden. Her trial was held the following June. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack finish telling the story of what happened in the Borden home that fateful August morning and the investigation that followed. Professor Morgan explains how the heads of both victims were removed and what it took to prepare the skulls to appear in court for the trial of Lizzie Borden.
It is no secret that Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother. The case remains an unsolved homicide.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.00 Introduction

01:10.88 Timeline of Borden murders

03:25.18 Bodies in state of decay

07:09.39 What happens to injuries one week later

12:30.25 Mr and Mrs Borden both wore dentures

17:25.23 Borden ladies familiar with hatchet

22:55.84 Who was the target?

28:36.97 Mr Borden was large man

33:52.18 Injuries were vicious

39:21.22 Conclusion

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Lizzie Borden Took An Axe: The UNSOLVED Homicides of Andrew and Abby Borden

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Lizzie Borden took an axe, She gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one. It is a gruesome school yard rhyme known by millions of people, but it is factually inaccurate. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the UNSOLVED Murder of Andrew and Abby Borden in August 1892. Lizzie Borden was arrested and charged in the double homicide and went on trial in June 1893. Many people have heard of the crime but very few know what really happened, including how the schoolyard rhyme is incorrect and how the prosecutor brought the skulls of Andrew and Abby Borden into court!

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.88 Introduction

03:06.17 Fall River, Mass

05:11.48 Skulls in court

11:08.63 Faces Lab at LSU

16:08.46 Andrew Borden, tightwad

20:04.96 Andrew killed Lizzie's pigeons

24:56.48 Head injuries were bad on both

30:55.64 Jury sees the skulls

34:47.96 Conclusion part 1

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SHOCKER! Tara Baker Murder, 20-Years earlier, 5-Miles From Laken Riley Murder Scene; TRIAL UPDATE

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Update on Tara Baker Homicide. Tara Baker was a law student at UGA when she was murdered on January 19, 2001. Her apartment was set on fire to cover-up the murder. It took nearly 10 years to get a death certificate and more than another 10 to arrest a suspect. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and why the trial of Edrick Lamont Faust, scheduled to begin in October, 2025, has been moved to January 2026.

Transcript Highlights
00:01.05 Introduction

02:34.58 Tara Baker, working and going to law school

05:01.75 Murders of Tara Baker and Laken Riley were less than 5 miles apart

10:08.02 Death Certificate is a "marker"

15:32.75 911 call was for an apartment fire

20:02.45 Firefighters have to be aware of their surroundings

24:56.80 Clothing might not burn - completely

29:56.47 Looking for what isn't destroyed by fire

33:17.54 Strap muscles in neck can indicate strangling

39:06.13 Fire used after the fact

43:42.43 Conclusion

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Emmanuel Haro presumed dead, 7-year-old sister permanently bedridden: The Children of Jake Haro

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Emmanuel Haro is still missing.

His parents are both in jail and charged in his death. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case as well as what Jake Haro did to his daughter when she was just 10-weeks-old.

Haro pleaded guilty and served 6-months in a work release program, but the 10-week-old is now seven and permanently bedridden because of the abuse inflicted by her father when she was an infant.

Transcribe Highlights
00:01.87 Introduction

02:07.37 Emmanuel Haro update

04:30.26 Rebecca Haro "black eye"

10:02.49 Looking back at 7-year-old daughter of Jake Haro

15:10.17 Soft-spot on the head of small child

20:14.87 Jake Haro beat 10-week-old daughter

25:08.74 Emmanuel Haro body not found

29:38.69 Placing child in trash very specific

33:10.04 Abuser may doctor shop

38:36.91 Police still searching for body

41:58.28 Conclusion

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Horrifying Details: Decker Sisters Deaths-Bags on Heads, Hands Zip tied, Bloody Handprint!

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000

In a mystery that has captured national attention, Washington father Travis Decker picked up his three young daughters on May 30 for a "planned visitation," and never came back. The three girls -- Paityn Decker, 9; Evelyn Decker, 8; and Olivia Decker, 5 -- were found dead near a Washington state campground on June 2. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case that has one of the most shocking crime scenes of all time. Professor Morgan explains the forensic evidence left behind inside the bags and the bloody handprint on the truck. As of today, Travis Decker is still on the run, the lone suspect in the murder of his three little girls. Officials say anyone who sees Decker or knows of his whereabouts should call 911.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.88 Introduction

02:06.17 The Murder of the Decker Sisters

05:11.48 Decker picked up his girls for visitation

10:08.63 Help is a two-way street

15:08.46 Search for Decker began June 2nd

20:04.96 Bloody handprint on tailgate of truck

24:56.48 Bags don't breathe

30:55.64 Passive Homicide

34:47.96 Decker has a decent level of training

40:04.66 Decker DNA found on the bags

45:24.15 Eric Robert Rudolph

49:27.37 Conclusion

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FBI DNA SHOCKER! Police Bodycam, Screaming on Stairs, Kohberger Case Continues!

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000

The recent release of police bodycam footage from Moscow, Idaho and the interview with Dylan Mortensen answers a lot of questions for those who have followed the case. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the latest information on the case including the FBI doing something they publicly said they would never do, and how Othram helped put the monster away for the rest of his life.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.05 Introduction

01:12.31 Show recorded on August 22, 2025

02:05.82 Discussion about DNA

05:01.99 Kohberger drove around house multiple times

09:51.40 Relating to the families involved

15:06.47 Scream "someone" is in house, mistakes Xana for Kaylee

20:00.77 Sounds made on staircase

25:13.04 DNA Scientist

30:09.48 FBI inserts the agency into the case

35:28.67 Genetic Genealogy is a game changer

42:01.94 Conclusion

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Hubby CAUGHT ON TAPE Dragging Body Sized Object From Home, Reports Wife Missing

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000

August 12, 2025, Los Angeles Investigators take a missing person report for 33-year-old wife and mother, Sheylla Cabrera. The next day Detectives locate security footage showing Sheylla's husband, Jossimar Cabrera, dragging a "large object" wrapped in material from their apartment complex. Sheylla's body is found the day after she is reported missing wrapped in a sheet/blanket and tossed down an embankment in the Angeles National Forest. When police try to meet with Jossimar Cabrera to notify him they found his wife, deceased, they discover he has packed up their three children and headed for Peru. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and what type of evidence investigators will find inside the wrapping around the deceased mother of three, their now empty apartment and what type of digital forensic evidence might come into play.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction - Sheylla Cabrera

03:33.49 Los Angeles County is huge

05:16.89 TMZ: Thirty Mile Zone

09:30.53 Suspect possibly caught dragging wife in a bag

10:37.54 Dave Talks about Movie he was in where he drug a body

14:31.19 Dead body is really "dead weight"

19:05.83 Body of Sheylla found one day after being reported missing

23:40.11 Cabrera flees before body found

28:50.65 Sheylla filed dv charge in Peru

34:10.07 Sheet will have evidence

38:17.06 Isolated in LA

39:57.35 Conclusion

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SHOCKING! DEATH OF GLAMOROUS BIKINI DESIGNER! WHO/WHAT KILLED MARTHA NOLAN?

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Martha Nolan O'Slattarra is a business woman on the rise in the fashion world who turns up dead on a yacht in one of the richest places in the USA, Montauk in the Hamptons, New York. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and what is known as of this taping but with an update coming when final toxicology results are available.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.00 Introduction

01:17.03 The song is Ripple by the Dead

04:03.73 Woman found dead on yacht

09:08.94 Finder on dock nude

14:49.84 Without obvious injury, what do you look at first?

20:43.73 Finder invested in Martha Nolan

25:34.83 The only source for info is naked guy

30:00.31 People don't snort drugs from a seat

35:11.76 Chris Durnan bit firefighter

40:24.01 Multiple agencies working the case

42:01.53 Conclusion

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Forensic Odontology: Bite Mark Sent Bundy To Electric Chair, Now Setting Others Free

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Forensic Odontology is much more than just "bite mark" evidence. It is an incredible science that helps identify people and provide answers to families. That said, most people hear Forensic Odontology think "Bite Mark". "Bite Mark" evidence has been used in many criminal cases over several decades, until science started showing it might not be as conclusive as once thought. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about Ted Bundy leaving a bite mark on Lisa Levy's buttocks that later served to help convict and sentence him to death as well as other crimes solved and people sentenced to death using "bite mark" evidence that turned out to be something other than a bite mark.

Transcribe Highlights
00:03.55 Introduction

00:50.52 Forensic Odontologist

04:31.54 Wear pattern of teeth

09:01.90 Did Kohberger study forensic odontology

14:02.90 Teeth biting sadists

20:09.39 Identifying people in a plane crash 1982

24:52.28 using saw to pop the roof of the mouth and remove teeth

30:11.52 Biting an apple

34:23.79 Girl stolen from home while mom folds clothes

39:13.61 Bite marks as a science

44:24.65 Bite mark out of a hickey

46:17.22 Conclusion

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Crime Scene Body Examination: Trayvon Martin M.E. Got an "F"- FIRED!

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Joseph Scott Morgan gives a master class on Crime Scene Body Examination and Assessment. Professor Morgan offers insight from being on the scene and what is truly important and what needs to be done to insure justice prevails for the person who can no longer speak for themselves. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack also discuss the shocking truth of what happened at the scene of two of the most high profile crimes of the last 50 years; Trayvon Martin and Jodi Arias victim, Travis Alexander.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.84 Introduction - Crime Scene

03:10.57 There is only one first time

05:39.41 Every site, every time

09:57.20 Different levels of comfort

15:07.57 First thing, make sure person is dead

19:37.93 Cold from a dead body

25:08.37 Suicide victim wasn't dead

30:31.89 Homicide detectives moving up

35:23.28 Everyone is watching

40:06.88 Want to transport body as if it were still at the scene

45:15.73 Trayvon Martin Autopsy report

50:07.39 Body needs to be examined at scene

52:15.60 Conclusion

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Missing Wife Body Parts Found In Woods, Ex Navy Jag Husband Accused

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Human remains were found scattered on a Georgia Hunting club property in November 2022. The remains were found in a three-mile area covering two counties, and investigators reached out to the public for help.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case that was investigated by multiple agencies, including the GBI and the FBI. They explain how the agencies came to identify the scattered remains as those of Mindi Mebane Kassotis, the wife of Nicholas Kassotis a former member of the Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG).

Kassotis is on trial right now for several charges, including murder and removal of body parts from the scene of death or dismemberment.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

03:33.49 No sympathy for those who should know better

04:59.21 Body Parts found in hunting club

09:30.53 Jeffrey MacDonald Article 32 Hearing

15:11.73 Sketch Image of victim was amazing

20:10.93 DNA is great if you have a sample in the system

24:58.72 Genetic genealogy

30:52.17 Tissue on skeleton

35:27.14 Dismemberment

39:22.78 May never know how she was killed

41:12.21 Conclusion

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Devil Murders Dad and Mom in Front of Daughters, 9 and 7, in Devils Den!

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Clinton and Cristen Brink have recently moved to Arkansas with their daughters and decide to go for a hike in Devils Den State Park.

Without warning, the family is ambushed on a hiking trail by a man with a knife. 43-year-old Clinton fights with the man as 41-year-old Cristen runs with their daughters, 9-year-old Arianna and 7-year-old Christina, until they are a safe distance away from where the attack is taking place.

Cristen tells the girls to run towards where they parked their car and get help. Cristen then returns to help her husband. The girls do as they are told, and some hikers in the park find them and take them to the entrance to the park to tell a ranger what happened.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss this shocking case and break down the forensic evidence that is used to identify the suspect, Andrew McGann, and what evidence directly ties him to the crime.

Transcript Highlights

00:01.22 Introduction

00:33.99 Haircuts with Pa-Paw

05:05.82 Multiple agency's involved

06:09.21 Two girls trying to find help

10:36.34 Mom gets girls to safety

14:54.34 Suspect gets out of park

18:58.82 Understanding the crime scene

24:00.80 Knife is painful way to die

29:12.39 Tracking suspect

34:14.21 Blood didn't match victims

39:26.36 Injuries on hand of suspect

44:27.28 Suspect Andrew McGann

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Beef Wellington With Mushrooms: Murderer's Favorite Weapon

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Erin Patterson went hunting for special mushrooms, Death Cap Mushrooms. She needed them for a very special meal she was preparing for her soon to be ex-in-laws. Her husband Simon was invited to be at the dinner with his parents and extended family but Simon decided not to be present. He had gotten sick too many times before when he wasn't able to watch his wife, Erin, prepare the food they ate. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack are covering this story, again, because there is finally a conclusion to the case. Was Erin Patterson wrongly accused of trying to kill her husband and his family with Beef Wellington and mushrooms, or was she using this very special dish as a weapon for murder?

Transcribe Highlights

00:04.45 Introduction - Favorite meals

02:11.60 Beef Wellington used for murder

07:17.61 Toxic Mushroom - Death Cap Mushroom

11:10.88 What was to goal?

15:39.31 Patterson picked deadly mushrooms on purpose

20:03.78 Family members die, one needs liver transplant

25:35.37 Husband, Simon, nearly died multiple times

30:05.28 Symptoms are the same, food is different

35:17.86 Doctor friend tells victim to keep food journal

40:19.74 Could not solve the problem

45:11.15 Children will be scarred
conclusion

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Unraveling the Mystery of 40 Skulls: A Grim Revelation "Best of Body Bags"

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

The FBI's investigation into James Knott's Kentucky home reveals a shocking discovery: 40 human skulls, femurs, hip bones, and spinal cords used as decorations. In response to this disturbing find, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack delve deep into the complex and unsettling world of how human remains are treated, examining the blurred boundaries between respect and violation. Through personal stories, including that of a mortician's questionable actions and a chilling account of James Knott's home adorned with human skulls, the duo grapples with society's morbid fascinations. Additionally, they explore historical figures like William Burke and contemporary controversies surrounding Harvard Medical School. The episode culminates in a somber reflection on the trade of human trophies in our digital age, and discussion of ethical dilemmas surrounding these issues, prompting us to question our society's values and the importance of respecting the dignity of the deceased.

Time-codes:

[00:00:20] - Joseph Scott Morgan gives an overview of his experience as a death investigator, introducing the episode's story about a man who worked for a prestigious institution and drove a car with vanity plate hinting at death

[00:04:00] - Joe Scott narrates a shocking tale of a mortician's twisted expression of love, and argues that the dead are the most defenseless and that those in the mortuary industry should honor the dead.

[00:06:20] - Dave Mack introduces the story of James Knott, a man in Kentucky whose home was raided by the FBI, leading to the discovery of 40 human skulls and other bones used as decorations.

[00:07:44] - Insight into the intricate and complex process of dissecting human brains and spinal cords is shared.

[00:10:13] - Joe's passion for history and architecture leads to a discussion on ossuaries in Portugal and Milan, Italy.

[00:13:00] - Joe recounts the chilling response of James Knott to FBI agents during a warrant execution and raises questions about Knott's motives and activities, speculating on the possibility of him being a necrophile, grave robber, serial killer, or trafficker in human remains.

[00:15:20] - A Harvard medical school bag's discovery thickens the plot around Knott.

[00:16:37] - Dave probes the enigma of preparing human remains for display, including cleaning and sourcing the remains.

[00:19:40] - How can one acquire so many skulls? Joe presents his theories and also discusses methods of cleaning bones, including using bleach or a heating process.

[00:23:20] - Joseph Scott Morgan delves into the history of William Burke and William Hare, two serial killers known for selling bodies for medical dissections, and explains the prohibition against human dissections in medical schools during that period, leading to a market for human remains.

[00:25:37] - The debate steers towards the legality and ethics of anatomical gifts, and the trust issues surrounding anatomical donations. Harvard Medical School's involvement in this case raises questions.

00:27:12] Morgan explains how certain individuals, including Cecil Lodge, former head of the Harvard Medical School Anatomical Gift Program, allegedly brokered human remains.

[00:28:06] - A step-by-step journey through the body dissection process in medical schools.

[00:29:38] - The morbid market of body parts as "souvenirs" is put under the spotlight. Dave highlights the modern-day horror of trading human trophies on social media.

[00:32:00] - Joe Scott contemplates the future repercussions of the episode's revelations on industry regulations.

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FAMILY MASSACRE! Family Friend Accused of Quadruple Murder. Austin Drummond CAPTURED!

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

A baby is dropped off at the end of a Tennessee driveway. As witnesses call 911 to report the baby, another call is coming in from a county over about a possible quadruple homicide. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the murders of Adrianna Williams, 20, James Wilson, 21, Cortney Rose,, 38, and Braydon Williams, 15, and the man who was arrested for the crime after days on the lam, Austin Drummond.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.11 Introduction

04:02.95 Infant dropped off at the end of driveway

08:15.20 Four dead, two are women

12:05.22 Posting photos on social media

16:14.68 Identification was fast

21:01.80 Possible concealment

24:20.42 Austin Drummond dated the grandmother

28:45.41 Austin Drummond prison cell

32:04.72 Austin Drummond captured

34:02.53 Conclusion

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ARSON: Revenge. Money. Cover-up Crime. Pyrophilia.

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Arsonists do it for many different reasons: Revenge, Money, Cover-up a Crime, Pyrophilia.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss arson and how the crime is investigated, the evidence left behind, and why burning up the scene of a crime to get rid of evidence often creates the evidence needed to catch the perp.

Transcript Highlights
00:00:00.00 Introduction - Fire

00:05:08.55 Getting hurt at fire scenes

00:09:59.88 Four sources

00:15:06.98 Watching fire

00:20:04.78 Arsonists use fire to make money, cover up a crime, render down a body

00:25:09.86 Somebody laying on their back, clothing on back many time is intact

00:30:17.15 Using fire for revenge

00:35:16.22 Memory of first time faced with a burned body in morgue

00:39:58.89 Linear surgical incisions to prevent body from splitting open

00:45:05.58 Most people die from smoke inhalation

00:50:17.55 Being short of breath, sad way to die

00:55:02.50 Treating the body with respect

00:59:47.19 Personal story, conclusion

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SHOCKING TRUTH! XANA Caught BK And Fought The Devil!

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Bryan Kohberger snuck in to kill young ladies while they slept. Maddie and Kaylee woke up and fought for their lives. Ethan Chapin was killed as he slept. But one, Xana Kernodle, was wide awake when the devil showed up.

After reading through documents released by the Moscow Police, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack put together a timeline and a map of activity inside the house at 1122 King Road and what really took place. They also discuss the injuries and the effect those injuries had on the victims as well as breaking down the police reports with never before heard comments from survivors and the horror that was seen by police when they first arrived on scene.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

04:25.35 Xana came from tough upbinging

08:55.66 All four students did well in school

14:25.39 Coming face to face with Satan

19:57.23 BK surprised by Xana

25:02.33 Ghastly injury from Xana grabbing knife

30:18.04 Xana was fully awake and engaged during attack

34:59.06 Ethan found in the bed, significant trauma

40:00.96 Similar injury caused by Courtney Clenney

45:10.40 No justice for what BK did

47:06.63 Conclusion

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EXPLOSIVE PROOF! Maddie and Kaylee Fought Back Against Cowardly Attacker

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

The sentencing of Bryan Kohberger allowed for the release of documents that until now have been kept from the public.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and examine the injuries suffered by Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kerodle, and Ethan Chapin. This episode covers the injuries suffered by Maddie and Kaylee, best friends, murdered by Bryan Kohberger on the third floor of 1122 King Road.

Tomorrow's episode will cover Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00:00.00 Introduction

00:02:15.60 Moscow Police files open for public

00:05:38.39 Kohberger "selfie"

00:09:44.63 Alivea Goncalves Impact statement

00:15:04.65 Warning about the damage done to Maddie and Kaylee

00:20:44.26 Prosecutors believe the "target" was Maddie or Kaylee

00:24:17.15 Wounds indicate Maddie was defending herself

00:29:11.95 Injuries to liver and lung

00:35:28.11 Very Sharp instrument

00:39:24.33 Kaylee was trapped between Maddie and the wall

00:44:08.05 Pink Blanket covering Maddie and Kaylee

00:49:37.59 Hand wrapped around Handle of Ka-Bar

00:54:58.43 Very vascular area struck

00:56:42.98 Conclusion

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ARREST! 1984 RAPIST, MURDERER OF 18-YEAR-OLDS, CAUGHT AFTER 40 YEARS

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

In 1984, Terrance Arndt was an 18-year-old in Shasta County California. He and his girlfriend are sitting together in his vehicle when out of nowhere, a man with a gun shows up. Arndt tries to save his girlfriend and is shot in the process. The girlfriend is sexually assaulted and left for dead. She isn't dead. After the killer leaves, she bravely drives Arndt's car for help and the state highway patrol calls Shasta County Sheriff's department. Arndt is taken to an area hospital but dies from his injuries, his girlfriend, never named, survives. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and the evidence left behind that allowed for science to catch up to the evidence collected. It took 40 years, but an arrest has been made.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.37 Introduction

01:41.48 Othram solves another cold case

02:45.31 Shasta County

05:11.66 Terrence Arndt killed, date raped

10:10.43 Small town athlete = star

14:42.98 Blood and DNA in 1984

20:08.18 Evidence that might be used later25:58.30 Tucson is a long way from Shasta County

29:56.59 Plug info into codis

35:19.30 Suspect shows up in court in a wheelchair and on oxygen

39:46.21 You can't outrun the numbers

42:09.96 Conclusion

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DELUSIONAL.PATHETIC. AVERAGE. YOU ARE NOTHING. FAILED RAPPER: BRYAN KOHBERGBER

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

The victim impact statements in the Bryan Kohberger sentencing were powerful.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack have covered the case since it began in November 2022 and discuss the evidence used to convince Bryan Kohberger to take a plea deal.

JoScott also explains some of the injuries sustained by Kaylee Gonçalves and how they would have happened based on what we now know about the murders and how they took place.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.22 Introduction, memories

04:25.74 Idaho murders impact on society

10:03.64 Impact statements by family members

15:12.12 Still wanting to know the facts of the case

20:32.28 Did BK target one specific person?

25:27.39 Science solved the case

30:13.55 BK Comment on arrest "anyone else arrested?"

35:11.23 Timeline of activity

40:34.32 Defense theory of 4 other people

45:10.42 Parents, Grandparents, siblings, impacted

48:23.61 Conclusion

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Shocking Discovery: Forensic Anthropology and the Suicide of Gabby Petito's Killer

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss Forensic Anthropology, starting with the two questions usually asked of Forensic Anthropologists:

Who are they?
What happened?

Joseph Scott Morgan explains what is Forensic Anthropology and how experts in the field are able to figure out what happened in cases where only a minimum of remains are left to investigate.

Transcribe Highlights

00:10.88 Introduction- Forensic Anthropology

05:05.90 Thinking neighbor was "the" Margaret Mead

10:26.47 Forensic Anthropologists - The Body Farm

14:56.66 Training is very intense

20:01.55 Terminator the liquid guy

25:03.32 Bones that make up the human skull

30:18.10 Swampy area - what happens to bones?

35:08.07 Study of human skeletal remains

40:42.60 Suture lines in floor of skull

44:34.54 Working case of genocide

50:36.76 Gunshot wound

55:22.21 Conclusion

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SHOCKING ARREST!!! Teen Begs TikTok Influencers to Investigate Parents' Murders!

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

In West Georgia, on the morning of February 20th, 2025, deputies with the Carroll County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene at 1531 Carolton Tyus Road. The 5-year-old daughter of James "Jamie" Brock and his wife, "Kristen Brock, discovered the bodies of her parents, both deceased, from apparent gunshot wounds. The 5-year-old told her sister, Sarah Grace Patrick, 16, and she called 911. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the scene of the crime and some of the "Red Flags" that began to fly in the days, weeks, and months that followed. The investigation of a double homicide in a small community in rural Georgia becomes an international affair with the teenage daughter/stepdaughter of the deceased begins asking for help on TikTok.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.32 Introduction - Babies

01:27.18 Teen accused of murder

05:18.49 Blended family

09:50.63 Evil visits everywhere

14:47.90 Did someone alter the scene?

20:13.45 Blood co-mingled

25:26.43 More than one weapon used?

29:56.79 Talk about son killing his family in his dad's dentist office

35:12.07 Sentencing meant to deterrent

40:02.92 Police mention possible future arrests

43:01.18 Brock's got really plugged into a church

45:03.87 conclusion

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Murder or Suicide? The Death of Jeffrey Epstein - The Best of Body Bags

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

The death of Jeffrey Epstein is back in the news and his brother, Mark Epstein, is on record saying he believes his brother was murdered.

The death of Jeffrey Epstein has been debated since the minute it was announced to the world. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will share what it was like to be on the air with the news and notice "red flags" as certain parts of the death story didn't seem to be correct.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will break down the death of Jeffrey Epstein. Did Jeffrey Epstein commit suicide, or was he murdered?

Transcript Highlights

00:01:17 Joe hears story about where the meanest men in America live

00:04:47 Joseph Scott Morgan talks about covering Epstein death

00:08:23 Discuss first attack/suicide attempt

00:11:45 Talk about unusual circumstances

00:14:37 Discuss conflicting statements about noose

000:17:15 Talk about Epstein allowed unmonitored phone call

00:18:23 Discuss no cellmate to attack or stop suicide

00:20:33 Talk about two nooses in the cell

00:22:42 Discussion of cell condition and contents

00:25:49 Talk about July 23rd event

00:29:25 Discuss observing body at time of death

00:32:25 Talk about putting hospital gown on Epstein

00:34:03 Mark Epstein told his brother may have been dead 2 hours or more

00:37:40 Talk about Epstein body wheeled into hospital

00:40:34 Discussion of hyoid bone

00:42:05 Discuss facts of the body at time of death

00:44:24 Discuss agreement overturned regarding suicide

00:45:14 Talk about autopsy, who was present

00:47:00 Discuss distribution of force

00:48:16 Mentions that noose wasn't collected for evidence.

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Jonestown: Vacation Destination? If Thirsty, "Don't Drink the Kool-Aid"

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

909 people, including 267 children, died by suicide or were murdered by cyanide injection on November 18, 1978, at "The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project", better known by the unofficial name "Jonestown" after the leader of the group, Jim Jones. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the group, how they ended up in the jungle of Guyana, and how most of the men, women, and children, died. Professor Morgan explains how Dr. William Eckert described the "smell of death" a mile away and 2000 feet in the air in a helicopter as he was arriving at the facility, what took place in identifying the dead, the condition of the bodies that were exposed to the elements, and what it would have been like for the victims who "drank the kool-aid". Oddly enough, the phrase "drink the kool-aid", referring to people blindly following leadership regardless of the truth, isn't correct. The people of Jonestown did not drink "Kool-Aid". They drank a cheap, knock-off version of Kool-Aid called Flavor Aid.

Transcribe Highlights
00:01.72 Introduction - environment

01:42.95 Jonestown "Don't Drink the Kool-Aid"

05:16.89 Remembering the reporting of Jonestown Suicide

09:41.90 Describing bloated bodies

10:34.71 What is left of Jonestown

12:18.99 Jim Jones cultivated political relationships

16:25.53 Jonestown was very isolated

20:06.23 Flies would be all over the scene

25:28.77 Have to determine how people were killed

29:54.63 Rep Leo Ryan killed at airstrip 6 miles from Jonestown

34:47.87 Jim Jones was not a "man of the cloth"

39:20.62 Value of Dark Tourism

40:25.99 Conclusion

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92-Year-old CONVICTED! 1967 Rape/Murder Cold Case Thawed After 58 Years

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Ryland Headley was 34-years-old when he raped and murdered 75-year-old Louisa Dunne in her home in Bristol (UK) on June 28, 1967. The biggest lead investigators had was to be found ‘lifted’ from the dusted powder of a window frame at the back of Louisa Dunne’s house and the residual trace of a palm print. It triggered the biggest finger and palm print operation in the history of the force. No suspect was found and the case went cold. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the rape/murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne, the evidence left behind, as well as similar attacks 10 years later and 212 miles away credited to the 'Ipswich Rapist', Ryland Headley. Joseph Scott Morgan explains how investigators careful collection of evidence in 1967 was used to convict 92-year-old Ryland Headley 58 years after the crime.

Transcript Highlights
00:00.43 Introduction - 1967 Cold Case

05:23.79 1967 unsolved murder - SOLVED 2025

09:43.05 Neighbor checks on Louisa Dune, 75

14:43.95 The icy fingers of death

19:24.99 Neighbor calls police after finding body

24:11.77 Scarf used to strangle victim

29:09.05 The Ipswich Rapist - 1977

34:15.57 Ipswich victims were 79 and 84

35:11.95 Ryland Headley sentenced to life, sentenced overturned, released in 1980

40:06.98 Evidence lost

44:12.49 Partial Palm Print from 1967

47:03.59 DNA from 1967 matched to Ryland Headley

Conclusion

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SHOCKING Celeb Deaths By Autoerotic Asphyxia Plus Epstein Hanging, More...

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

AEA: Autoerotic Asphyxia—David Carradine gained fame on TV in the early 70s as Kung Fu. Michael Hutchence was the frontman for hitmaking rock group INXS.

Both men died doing the same thing: autoerotic asphyxia. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss AEA as well as other public deaths by asphyxia, including the hanging of Jeffrey Epstein, the suicide of Robin Williams, and a story about the death of a man accused of being a witch during the Salem Witch Trials and how he died of asphyxia by "pressing."

Transcript Highlights

00:02.49 Introduction

00:39.43 "Blood Beneath My Feet"

04:48.20 Asphyxia by hanging

10:00.77 Suffocation - positional asphyxia

15:06.68 Compression of the neck

19:39.06 Hanging of Lewis Payne

24:40.59 Execution by "pressing"

30:12.40 Killed by hanging in public

35:11.67 Suspension Hanging vs Supported Hanging

39:15.66 Auto-Erotic Asphyxia

45:20.99 Strangle to point of death, and stopping, to cause more terror in victim

50:42.24 Conclusion

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UPDATE! Baby Decapitated DURING Birth! Jury Awards Parents $2 Million

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Update on the decapitation of Baby Isaiah during his birth. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss what happened and how the family is still having to fight for justice. The parents, Jessica Ross and Traveon Taylor Sr. have filed lawsuits against the hospital and the doctor but the first suit is about the damage done to the family by the doctor hired to do the autopsy of baby Isaiah, Dr. Jackson Gates. Dr. Gates posted pictures and video of the autopsy without the parents knowledge or permission and a jury awards the parents $2 million in damages.

Transcript Highlights
00:04.96 Introduction

00:48.33 Parental grief with loss of a child

04:45.27 Use of forceps during childbirth

06:37.45 The death of baby Isaiah

10:04.56 Explanation of child birth options

14:28.88 Doctor applied enough force to decapitate baby

20:30.53 Baby Isaiah head placed on body so it wouldn't fall off

25:19.76 Funeral home reported decapitation

30:06.68 Head removed during delivery

35:09.52 Paying for autopsy

39:42.33 Lawsuit filed when autopsy doctor placed images of autopsy on social media

44:59.93 Conclusion

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From Manson Family Murders to Execution by Beheading: Truth About Sharp Force Injuries

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the Manson family murders and the real injuries suffered by the victims, as well as beheadings carried out hundreds of years ago in an effort to explain the difference in the type of injuries created by all manner of weapons that can be used to stab, slice, carve, and disembowel. Professor Morgan explains the difference between the facts of a case and how injuries and weapons are shown in film and how difficult it is to determine the source of a sharp force injury.

Transcript Highlights
00:13.87 Introduction - Sharp Force Injuries

01:11.86 Description of a beheading

04:56.77 Sharp force injury

10:02.83 Executioner refusing to execute

14:59.68 Stabbing injuries

20:27.08 Studying the margin - edges of injury

24:48.30 Always look for the "winking eye"

29:58.47 Thorough autopsy - tongue comes out

35:03.25 First documented autopsy, Caesar

38:58.59 Manson family knife attacks, Sharon Tate

45:03.35 Manson Murders shown in movie shows fork bouncing up and down, ridiculous

46:2 9.07 Conclusion

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JFK - Oswald - Lincoln: Forensic Firearm Examination

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

A solid understanding of firearms and their function and purpose is essential to being a successful investigator. Failure to understand the things encountered in the street... there is no telling what kind of interpretation one will wind up making . Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the weapons used in the murders of Lincoln, JFK, and Oswald and Joe explains why It is important to be "studied up" when working in the field.

Transcript Highlights
00:00.07 Introduction

02:33.91 Brief History of firearms

06:08.03 $12 mail order gun supposedly killed JFK -- how do you figure it out

09:04.62 The Rifleman

15:48.72 The weapon used to kill Lincoln

20:12.47 Baseball bat favored by Dave

25:20.33 Never say gunshot wound on report in the field

30:25.58 JFK neck wound used for creating airway

35:14.95 The "Magic Bullet"

40:12.97 Oswald shooting injury

45:05.23 Projectile would have defect

49:28.41 Round traveling out of weapon

55:46.90 Conclusion

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Blunt Force Trauma Deep Dive And The Trials of Karen Read

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Blunt Force Trauma and the trial of Karen Read in the death of her boyfriend, police officer John O'Keefe. Read was accused of hitting O'Keefe with her SUV in 2022 and leaving him to die in blizzard like conditions. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and how Blunt Force Trauma plays a critical part in the death of O'Keefe. Joe Scott also talks about a case involving the death of a woman confined to a wheelchair and requiring 24 hour care. At first glance her death seemed natural due to her medical conditions, but upon examination determined to be a homicide due to blunt for trauma. The woman had over 160 contusions on her body caused by a dryer belt.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.03 Introduction - Blunt Force Trauma

04:21.19 Taking a hit from Jesse Tuggle

05:04.72 Motor Vehicle accidents, number one cause of blunt force trauma deaths in USA

10:11.73 Bleeding out due to blunt force trauma

15:45.67 Brain injuries

20:01.76 Abrasions caused by blunt force

25:17.35 Describing victim with 167 contusions

30:05.95 Looking for item that caused injury

35:06.97 O'Keefe injuries, Karen Read case

40:13.55 "Grading" Bruises - age of bruise

45:00.87 Bruise created by a bat

49:46.82 Conclusion

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Suzanne Morphew's Husband Charged AGAIN With First-Degree Murder of Wife!

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Suzanne Morphew vanished on Mother's Day 2020. Her husband Barry Morphew was later charged with her murder, even though her body had not been found. Due to many issues, the judge dismissed the case one week before it went to trial and Barry Morphew walked out a free man. The judge dismissed the case "Without Prejudice" meaning the Morphew could be charged again at a "later date". That "later date" came when Barry Morphew was indicted by a grand jury charging him with Murder in the first-degree of his wife Suzanne Morphew. He was arrested in Arizona on Friday, June 20, 2025. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and why it was dropped the first time and why it is being brought again now. Professor Joseph Scott Morgan will explain the forensic evidence that is "the smoking gun" of the case.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

00:49.42 Case of Suzanne Morphew

05:08.01 Mother's Day, Suzanne missing

09:47.15 Sasha Krause similar story

16:17.97 Barry Morphew hotel room smelled like bleach

20:26.86 Vigils, volunteers searching, Barry Morphew not helping much

25:13.43 Charges dropped, investigators believe they know where bones are but can't get to them

30:30.99 Suzanne remains found 45 miles from her home

35:05.68 Remains bleached, no maggots or other bugs feasting on her remains

39:59.83 Barry Morphew used BAM on deer

45:06.59 Conclusion

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Wife, Mother, Restaurant Owner, SERIAL KILLER: The Life and Death Sentence of Anjette Lyles

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Anjette and Ben Lyles are a young married couple with two children. Ben is a WW2 veteran and together he and Anjette work in his family restaurant in Macon, Georgia. When Ben sells the restaurant for below market value to settle a gambling debt, Anjette is furious. A few months after selling the restaurant, Ben gets very sick, very fast, and dies without doctors figuring out what killed him. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the death of Ben Lyles as well as Anjette's new husband, Buddy Gabbert, Anjette's first mother-in-law, Julia Lyles, and Anjette's daughter, Marcia. Joe explains how Anjette Lyles got away with murder, at first, and what led to her ultimate arrest, conviction, and death sentence.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.21 Introduction

02:09.23 Eating at Hospital cafeteria

05:02.11 Ben Lyles sells restaurant to settle gambling debt, Anjette is furious

06:45.30 Ben Lyles dies, doctors don't know why

09:21.66 Diagnosis by symptoms

14:43.53 Ben's mother worked at Restaurant

18:26.54 Anjette buys the restaurant

20:01.78 Anjette marries Buddy Gabbert

25:07.03 Doctors not looking for arsenic

30:08.42 Symptoms were miserable, Buddy dies

35:32.05 Anjette seen lighting black candle and talking to it

40:00.01 Coroner's Inquest

44:51.91 Coroner gets anonymous letter about Anjette using arsenic ant poison to kill

50:09.65 One month after Marcia dies, Anjette is arrested, charged with murder

51:25.26 Sentenced to death. Sentence commuted to life in prison

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Body Bags "LIVE" From CRIMECON UK 2025 - Idaho College Murders Update

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Joseph Scott Morgan gives a "Live" presentation of what happened at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho the night four students were murdered. Breaking down the forensic evidence that exists as well as items that have been destroyed, including the crime scene and all of this on stage in front of a live audience at CrimeCon UK 2025

Transcribe Highlights

00:01.36 Introduction

04:06.06 Blood seen on back of house

08:00.55 KA-BAR Knife

11:48.76 Event took between 6 and 12 minutes

15:19.56 Moscow, Idaho, small town

20:00.53 House is complex

25:11.72 Kohberger car cleaning

30:08.31 Kohberger watching Joe Scott

35:44.67 House torn down

38:17.26 Conclusion

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796 Dead Babies Hidden in Septic Tank At Home For Unwed Mothers

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Imagine a very large, very old, decomissioned sewage tank buried underneath the grounds of a long since demolished home for unwed mothers that may contain the remains of nearly 800 babies and small children. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the story of the "Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home" in Tuam, Ireland....providing shelter for young women from 1925 until it closed in 1961. Nearly 800 children died at the facility run by Nuns but there are only one or two actual burial records, the rest may have been tossed into an old septic tank buried on the property and turned into a mass unmarked grave. Professor Morgan explains how the tank would have been tested, the condition of the remains, and the daunting task to identify and properly bury the children who were tossed away like rubbish.

Transcribe Highlights
00:05.83 Introduction "Bon Secours" means "Safe Harbor"

03:23.12 Homes for "single mothers"

05:00.85 Historian research indicates nearly 800 babies died, only one burial record

09:59.19 Death certificates were found

14:43.31 Bones sticking up from ground

20:12.78 Description of septic type system used at the time

25:09.84 Opening on top referred to as a "Thief Hatch"

30:07.44 The nuns are not the only ones responsible

35:02.15 Using methane probes in very small area

40:04.25 Permission has been give for full excavation

44:36.01 Need help with DNA and identifying the remains. Conclusion

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Fatal Vision or Fatal Justice - The Case of Jeffrey MacDonald

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

At 3:42 a.m. on February 17, 1970, Green Beret Doctor Jeffrey MacDonald makes an emergency phone call from his base housing at 544 Castle Drive at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The dispatcher hears the faint message, a call for help, "Stabbing! Hurry!" Inside the residence, MacDonald's wife, Colette, 26, and five months pregnant, lies dead on the floor of the master bedroom, their daughters, Kimberley, 5, and Kristen, 2, are found dead in their respective beds. Jeffrey MacDonald suffered minor injuries, compared to his wife and daughters. MacDonald claims 4 hippies, 3 men and a woman, came into his home, killed his family and knocked him unconscious. MacDonald says the woman with long blond hair was wearing a white floppy hat and holding a candle while chanting "Acid is groovy, kill the pigs." The case has been turned into books, movies, articles, and lawsuits. MacDonald was convicted for the murder of his wife and daughters and sentenced to life in prison. Jeffrey MacDonald claims he was wrongly convicted and has never wavered from his claims that hippies murdered his wife and daughters. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and the injuries suffered by Colette, Kimberley, Kristen, and Jeffrey Macdonald, and compare the forensic facts to the story told by the one person who survived.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00:01.45 Introduction

00:00:17.91 Killer on the loose in LA

00:03:06.24 Jeffrey MacDonald story

00:05:26.19 Victim recounting traumatic event

00:09:10.74 MacDonald tells his version of events

00:14:09.09 Four Hippies get on military base housing

00:19:10.31 Tearing down location of homicide

00:24:07.38 Officers explaining crime scene

00:29:36.21 Motive doesn't matter at a crime scene

00:33:55.42 MacDonald was the ONLY threat, he survives

00:38:43.83 Wounds on Colette

00:43:09.00 Comparing injuries suffered by girls and MacDonald

00:48:13.19 Injuries suffered by Kimberly, 5-years-old

00:52:21.98 Conclusion

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Could Delay Calling Cops Plus Coroner Comments Create Reasonable Doubt For Kohberger?

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

A lot of information has come out about the victims in Moscow, Idaho, and the condition of their bodies as well as location and injuries. Latah County Coroner Cathy Mabutt made many public comments in the first days of the investigation that in retrospect might have been misguided, at best. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case, the evidence, and what was stated as fact early in the investigation that doesn't match up with current facts. Joe Scott Morgan explains the forensics of death, Livor Mortis, Rigor Mortis, as well as PMI, Post Mortem Interval, and how the delay in reporting the bodies could be problematic for the prosecution in the upcoming trial of Brian Kohberger.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.19 Introduction

01:48.68 Decomposition - PMI

03:32.16 Elderly people are cold when it is hot

07:00.30 Rigor Mortis, Livor Mortis

11:48.60 Environmentally dependent

15:33.11 Stiffening of jaw

19:56.67 Latah County Coroner said Idaho students killed in their sleep

23:19.82 Strength of Rigor Mortis

28:22.59 Using digital turkey thermometer to get body temp from liver

32:54.33 Assuming room temperature

38:11.60 Latah County Coroner told family member about injuries

43:00.35 Removing stomach and collecting contents

49:49.70 Gastric content

53:08.10 Post Mortem lividity

58:25.86 Conclusion

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SHOCKING DEATHS! Fertility Clinic Bomber Manifesto + Staged Suicide/Murder

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

A Fertility Clinic Bomber's Manifesto Mentions Staged Suicide Murder 1,200 Miles Away. Lars Nelson calls 911 to report the suicide of his girlfriend, Sophie Tinney. He gives the 911 operator a lot of information and is standing outside to talk to police. When officers arrive they notice that 27-year-old Sophie Tinney is dead from what appears to be a gunshot wound. But they aren't sure it is a suicide. It appears she has three bullet wounds to her head. 1200 miles south of Fox Hollow Island Washington is Palm Springs, California, home to a fertility clinic where 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus, tries to "live stream" his bombing of the clinic. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about the staged suicide death of Sophie Tinney, her boyfriend, Lars Nelson, as well as Guy Edward Bartkus who left a manifesto behind that mentions the death of Sophie Tinney. The time has come to answer the question; what or who is an "Anti-Natalist"?

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SHOCKING! Dark Secret Hidden in Tunnels Under The City of Light

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Millions of tourist flock to Paris every year to visit the Louvre or see the Eiffel Tower up close.

While tourists take photos on the city streets, under their feet, lining the walls of nearly two hundred miles of tunnels lie the skeletons of 6 MILLION people. Joseph Scott Morgan recounts his recent visit to the tunnels under the "City of Light" and explains how the area became the final resting place for millions of people.

And in a shocking turn, the Professor finds a skull that appears to have a gunshot wound to the head!

Transcribe Highlights

00:01.76 Introduction
02:26.06 Handrail phobia
05:00.55 Church and alter made from bones
09:48.76 Touring Notre Dame
15:19.56 A mantel made of stone
19:30.53 Bones stacked according to type
25:11.72 WW2 - Nazi's in one place, French resistance in another
30:08.31 Looking for trauma on the bones
35:44.67 Skull showed trauma
38:17.26 Conclusion

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Decompositional Changes: Rookie Cop Thinks Man Was Murdered with Hatchet!

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Joseph Scott Morgan puts on his teachers cap and explains Decompositional changes and what really happens in the first minutes, hours, and days after death and tells the story of a rookie cop doing a simple welfare check calls for backup after finding a victim dead in his tv chair. The still wet behind the ears cop thinks the victim was killed with a hatchet, but all of the blood and body fluid appearing on the victims' shirt is not from a hatchet, the man had a heart attack. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about the disintegration of body tissues after death, known as decomposition as well as the two processes of Decomposition and how important these processes will be in the upcoming trial of Bryan Kohberger for the murders of four college students in Idaho.

Transcript Highlights
00:03.14 Introduction

01:34.93 Professor Morgan is ready to teach

04:44.28 Reason for understanding decomposition

09:51.60 Can't always see it, but you can smell it

14:43.12 People dying on toilets

19:01.43 Disintegration, breaking down what is organic

24:31.13 Autolysis and Putrefaction

29:35.64 Body decomposing

34:59.98 Rigor mortis leaves, body becomes flaccid

40:12.40 Toes and fingers dry out

44:32.69 Natural Death looks like a murder

45:35.23 Conclusion

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Ellen Greenberg Update: ME Says He Was Wrong! NOT Suicide! "Best of Body Bags"

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

The death of Ellen Greenberg was initially ruled a homicide, but without warning or explanation, Doctor Marlon Osbourne changed the ruling to suicide. Ellen's parents have spent the last 14 years trying to have it changed back to homicide, or undetermined. The Greenberg's have two civil suits about the case, one headed for the state supreme court later this year, but on the first day of jury selection for the other case, a settlement is reached. Doctor Marlon Osbourne, who conducted the autopsy on Ellen Greenberg as the former assistant medical examiner with the ME's office, signed a sworn verification statement in which he says he now believes Ellen's manner of death should be designated as something other than suicide. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and breakdown how this change impacts the case today and in the future.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00:00 Introduction

03:29.50 Dr. Osbourne changes ruling from homicide to suicide

07:23.79 The life of Ellen Greenberg

12:21.71 location of injuries

17:19.04 Joe talks about autopsy

22:22.18 Greenberg had active day, no issues

27:36.97 Classification of "manner of death"

32:45.96 Giving a statement to police

37:06.32 Steps in death investigation

42:48.71 Conclusion

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Unbelievable Rulings! Manner, Cause, Mechanism of Death: Part 2

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Part Two of "Manner, Cause, Mechanism of Death", the death rulings of John O'Keefe, Virginia Giuffre, Dana Plato, Heidi Planck and others including one where a burglar is sent to prison for murdering someone who wasn't shot, stabbed, strangled, or even touched by the suspect who was robbing the place, and who will possibly spend the rest of his life in prison. The Karen Read Case is also discussed as to the Manner, Cause, and Mechanism of death of John O'Keefe. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about cases when no body is found but evidence found at the scene is "incompatible with life" and how this is used in an investigation.
Joseph Scott Morgan goes deep into death investigation and what really matters, breaking down the four questions of Death Investigation: How? What? When? Why?

Transcribe Highlights

00:02.88 Introduction

00:56.30 Cause and Effect, Mechanism

05:00.66 Suicide Ruling in overdose death of Dana Plato

09:55.12 Needle still in the arm of overdose victims

15:58.79 Manner of death

19:02.38 Coroner decides to rule overdose deaths as homicides

23:59.02 Elderly Man Dies from heart attack meeting robber in Kitchen - Robber sent to prison

28:03.94 Heidi Planck missing, evidence found is incompatible with life

34:15.80 John O'Keefe Manner of death

39:05.80 Brain expands with no place inside skull to go

41:56.73 Conclusion

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Is Kohberger the New "OJ"? Did Defense Find The "Real Killer"?

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

The judge in the Bryan Kohberger trial is still searching for the person or persons who leaked info to Dateline that was used in NBC’s 2-hour special on the Idaho Student Murders, “The Terrible Night on King Road” revealing new details and never before seen video that may be key evidence in the state’s case. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about the latest news in the case and JSM breaks down some issues with how forensic evidence was moved from the scene, how the entire crime scene was treated in the days following the murders, as well as what the coroner did or did not do that could create problems at trial. No matter what happens in court or in the media, there are still four young adults who were murdered, and they must be remembered. They deserve justice.

Remember the Victims:

Ethan Chapin, 20

Xana Kernodle, 20

Kaylee Goncalves, 21

Madison Mogen, 21

Transcribe Highlights

00:13.15 Introduction - Part 2 - Kohberger Case

01:46.38 Judge is displeased with the leak in the case
05:04.66 Risk at trial, slipshod manner the way the trial claimed

09:40.54 Implies some kind of trace element left behind on
14:00.17 Evidence: a mattress was driven down the road in the back of a truck
19:54.71 Kohberger lawyer previously represented mother of victim, Xana Kernodle
24:04.54 Judge is completely aware
29:01.53 Does the defense have a suspect other than Kohberger?
33:43.00 Timeline is going to be very important
39:14.10 Not all testimony will be available to public, some will not be streamed
43:47.94 Whoever did this quadruple murder is/was a monster
44:11.81 Conclusion

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Death Investigation: Manner, Cause, and Mechanism of Death - A Lesson from The Professor

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Joseph Scott Morgan spends hours talking about crime scenes and forensics in the media and in the classroom. Today he explains everything from a "Natural Death" to "Russian Roulette". The key is to determine "How the Cause Came About".
Natural Deaths: Death as a result of a normal biological process. Accidental Deaths: Death that results from misadventure without assignment of blame to another by the certifier of death. Undetermined Deaths: The causative factors surrounding the death cannot be established. Homicidal Deaths: A death that is at the hand of another. Suicidal Deaths: Death at one's own hand

Transcribe Highlights

00:02.88 Introduction

00:56.30 More than just a "death investigator"

05:00.66 Teaching Forensics while covering crime

10:05.12 Cases thrown out due "dry labbing"

15:00.79 Determinations of how someone died

20:02.38 Manner of Death explained

24:59.02 Medical Legal ruling of Manner of death in Russian Roulette

30:03.94 The term "Cause of Death"

35:04.21 Death at ones own hand

Conclusion of Lesson One

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UPDATE! Mass killer, Serial killer, Hired Hitman: Damien McDaniel - 18 Dead in 14 Months

Thu, 29 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Birmingham, Alabama, has experienced a killing spree unlike any before.

In the April 16 episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack covered alleged mass killer, serial killer, and hitman Damian McDaniel, who had been charged with 14 murders in 14 months. McDaniel has now been charged with four more homicides, bringing the total to 18 in 14 months.

In this update episode, Morgan and Mack discuss the timeline of events, the difference between a mass shooting and a serial killer, and the accusation that McDaniel was also a hired hitman. Joe also explains what must happen at each crime scene—even when the scene includes double-digit victims

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.53 Introduction

02:33.65 Damian McDaniel charged with 4 more homicides

05:03.41 McDaniel is suspected of Serial killings as well as Mass killing

10:17.73 McDaniel is also accused of being a Hired "Hitman"

15:00.71 Additional charges for McDaniel - and possible partner in crime

20:36.12 Question about weapon or weapons used

25:25.57 Going down the list victims and locations

30:19.08 Second Mass shooting - McDaniel a suspect in shooting

35:07.54 Investigators are drowning in data

37:14.04 Conclusion

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SICKO Mails Skeletal Remains To Cops in 1987, FINALLY IDENTIFIED

Wed, 28 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

In November 1987 cops in Humbolt County, California, received a package in the mail. The package was mailed from San Francisco and contained partial skeletal remains. A typed letter was included in the package with directions to more skeletal remains. More skeletal remains were recovered but what was found was still an incomplete set of remains. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss a case that includes a missing teacher, a husband on a business trip, and bones found in multiple locations in Northern California - and how the incredible work of Othram helped identify the partial set of human remains nearly 40 years after they first arrived at the Sheriff's office

Transcribe Highlights
00:03.47 Introduction

01:12.55 Influence of teachers at an early age

04:56.32 1987-husband comes home from business trip, wife is gone

09:39.08 Some mailed skeletal remains to police

14:39.11 Partial skeletal remains

19:51.97 Map to more remains included with remains

24:00.63 Typed letter still has "evidence"

29:27.66 Note and remains mailed from San Francisco

34:48.40 Othram brought in to identify the skeletal remains

39:14.34 Victim lived in an isolated area

43:29.15 Othram has to crowd fund to be able to work on a case

Conclusion

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Love Triangle Murder: One Buried In Mansion Basement, One in Prison, One Aqcuitted

Tue, 27 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

All Three were doing drugs and having sex with one another. Jamie Carrol goes to get more drugs, when he comes back, Jeffrey Mundt and Joey Banis, kill Carrol and take his money and drugs. Mundt and Banis then dig a hole in the basement of the Mansion and bury the body of Jamie Carroll. The couple gets away with murder.....until seven months later, police respond to a 911 call about domestic abuse. Jeffrey Mundt says his boyfriend, Joey Banis is going to kill him. When cops arrive on scene they take Joey Banis into custody and leave Jeffrey Mundt at the house. As police take Banis to jail, he begins telling them a story of drug, sex, and a body buried in the basement. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the murder of one man, and the lies of the two that tried to blame each other for a murder they almost got away with.....almost.

Transcribe Highlights

00:14.75 Introduction - Holding on to the past

01:47.61 Case involves a bit of digging

03:57.84 Completely nude man, running in a hotel hallway, jump out a window

05:14.22 Brain in the hot tub. Had to use skimmer net

09:54.57 Cops aren't sure where they are supposed to go

15:03.97 Too much money, too much time on their hands

20:17.42 When do police realize the story they are being told might seem strange, but it is real

25:32.77 Older homes with basement hard pack

30:00.25 Killers best plan to put body into rubber tub is to use a sledge hammer to break up the body

35:18.84 Joey and Jeffrey were a couple

40:36.57 Body produces decomp fluid

45:40.59 Post mortem x-ray of a body

50:12.66 One man murdered for his drugs and money

51:11.40 Conclusion

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Brutal 1982 Cold Case Murder of Girl, 15, SOLVED! Man, 78, Sentenced

Thu, 22 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

15-year-old Karen Stitt was stabbed to death 100 yards from the bus stop where she was headed to catch a bus to take her back home. She suffered nearly 60 stab wounds, 18 to the heart, and there is blood evidence all over the crime scene. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case that has so much evidence it is shocking how it went cold, and only got colder as the years went by. The murder happened in 1982 and it took until the last few months to get a conviction. Is justice delayed, justice denied?

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.65 Introduction

02:08.90 Grisly murder, blood saturated crime scene

04:59.07 Close to 380 episodes of Body Bags

09:42.63 Event occurred 100 yards away from bus stop

14:56.13 Killing took place behind a wall

20:03.83 Making castings of shoe imprints

25:28.74 Volume of blood can change color of clothing, more than 59 stab wounds

30:04.66 18 wounds to the heart

34:57.38 Boyfriend was suspect, but never charged, he didn't do it
39:29.99 DNA - Genetic Genealogy leads to suspect

41:01.64 Gary Ramirez pleads "no contest" sentenced to life with possible parole after 25 years

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Fatal Family Crash! Dad, Sister, DEAD, Mom Critical, BABY Kahleb MISSING!

Wed, 21 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

A one-year-old boy, Kahleb Collins,, is discovered to be "Missing" when he isn't found in the wreckage of a car crash that kills his father, Steven Collins, 40, and older sister, Ryleigh Collins, 2, and lands his mother, Pam Bailey, 23, in the hospital in critical condition. Investigators looking for Khaleb don't find him in the wreckage but learn his grandfather, John Elton Bailey, has custody of the baby. When Bailey is interviewed he tells investigators he hasn't seen Kahleb since September. It is now December 17 and an Amber Alert is issued for Kahleb Collins. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case from what happened in the car wreck to a burn pile found on the Collins family property where human remains have been discovered.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.07 Introduction, burn piles

04:55.58 Fatal family car wreck leads to missing baby

10:16.20 Grandfather has custody of baby, but lives with the family

15:33.76 Was driver trying to commit suicide?

20:10.03 Difference between looking for decaying body of baby and adult

25:05.93 Human remains found in burn pile

30:37.56 Children not as resilient as adults when subjected to elements

35:03.84 The child has not been identified

40:02.17 Father is alleged to have abused one-year-old

42:25.42 Conclusion

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Ghastly New Info On Idaho College Murders Leaked To Public

Tue, 20 May 2025 11:35:00 +0000

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the leaks in the Bryan Kohberger case and what new information is now in the public. The Dateline show with information not released by the public has the judge in the case investigating the leak. Joseph Scott Morgan also looks at the ghastly injuries done to Ethan Chapin that were allegedly done while he was asleep

Transcript Highlights

00:00.03 Introduction

01:15.89 Joseph Scott Morgan is being viewed by Kohberger

06:46.56 Is there any way to get death penalty off the table

10:13.55 Realizing a killer has been listening

15:44.22 Dateline sharing leaked info

20:13.79 Investigators don't always get it right

25:11.68 Sinister pictures, don't look at his eyes

30:02.54 Timeline in Idaho is a 20 minute window

35:05.07 What else haven't we seen?

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Firing Squad Execution FAIL! Three Shooters MISS the Mark from 5 Yards Away

Thu, 15 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Mikal Mahdi was just 21 years old when he began a crime spree that spanned four states and included two murders.

One of the victims was James Myers, a 56-year-old police captain with the Orangeburg Public Safety Department in South Carolina.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the crimes that led to Mahdi’s death sentence— and how the firing squad, once viewed as a more humane alternative to other execution methods, didn’t go as planned.

Did all three shooters miss the mark on Mikal Mahdi— or was the "mark" misplaced?

Transcript Highlights
00:02.40 Introduction

01:13.17 A botched execution

05:18.91 Mikal Mahdi killed South Carolina Public Safety Officer James Myers in 2004

10:08.71 Mikal Mahdi ended writhing in pain while strapped to a chair

14:40.64 French Guillotine - used as a deterrent

19:55.79 Electrocution of Ted Bundy

25:05.72 Prison Employees volunteer to carry out execution

30:15.15 Three shooters, two bullet holes, not one heart hit

35:10.71 Static Target from 5 yards away

39:48.66 Was this a "botched execution"?

45:02.64 Was the "marker" misplaced?

47:02.47 Conclusion

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Shocking Crucifixion Murder of Beloved "Pastor Bill", Body Staged!

Wed, 14 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

A beloved pastor and Vietnam War Vet is murdered in his own home and his body is "staged" with his arms spread out and his hands pinned to the wall to resemble crucifixion. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the murder of 76-year-old William Schoneman. Who would want Schoneman dead? Lovingly called "Pastor Bill" by the community, he had been the pastor at New River Bible Chapel for 25 years. Who would kill a pastor loved by all and why the elaborate staging? Answers are tough to come by and law enforcement isn't sharing info.

Transcript Highlights
00:12.53 Introduction - Confession

02:16.95 Killer on the loose on Carefree Highway

05:08.34 Pastor murdered, body staged

09:17.30 Killer needed privacy and time

14:14.36 Law Enforcement says Public is "safe"

19:13.12 Torture involved in murder, hands "pinned" to wall

23:06.75 Pastor was loved and respected by the community

27:07.79 Moving body without destroying evidence

32:12.98 Mattress holds evidence

35:39.52 Conclusion

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Holy Smokes! Thumbprint on Carton of Cigarettes SOLVES 1977 Murder

Tue, 13 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Just before midnight on January 31, 1977, Jeanette Ralston leaves the Lion's Den bar in San Jose, California. She never arrives home and the next morning her body is found wedged in the back seat of her VW Beetle in a carport of an apartment complex not far from the bar. She had been strangled and possibly sexually assaulted. Investigators found evidence and a sketch of a possible suspect was done, but the case went unsolved and ran cold. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the murder of this single mom and how investigators eventually located a possible suspect in 2024 using a thumbprint found on a carton of cigarettes at the scene of the crime in 1977.

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Twins, 19, Miss Flight To Boston, Found Dead On Georgia Mountain

Thu, 08 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Qaadir Lewis and Naazir Lewis, 19-year-old twins, are scheduled to catch a 7 a.m. flight to Boston from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Friday, March 7. They take an Uber from their home in Lawrenceville to the airport but arrive late and miss their flight.

Twenty-nine hours later, just after 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 8, two hikers at the summit of Bell Mountain find the twins dead, both with gunshot wounds. Bell Mountain sits 90 miles from their Lawrenceville home. The family says the twins were not hikers and had never been to Bell Mountain.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss a case with more twists and turns than the roads that lead to Bell Mountain. Did the Lewis twins enter into a murder-suicide pact, as some investigators suggest? And why was a volunteer firefighter arrested after being one of the first on the scene when the bodies were found?

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

02:42.78 Bell Mountain, 36o degree view

06:09.83 10 minute hike, half mile hike to summit

11:06.77 Lake Lanier area, where Ozark was filmed

15:11.39 Volunteer fireman took pictures of the twins and posted online

25:36.67 Gunfire related murder/suicide

30:39.13 Evidence on body can determine range of fire

35:19.02 Family says the twins hate to spend money on gas
Conclusion

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Fox Hollow Farm Serial Killer's 10th Victim Identified After 29 Years

Wed, 07 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Nobody knows for sure the exact number of men that Herb Baumeister killed. Investigators have an idea of certain individuals who went missing during Baumeister's reign of terror, but Dan Halloran was not on anyone's list as a possible victim. In a previous episode of Body Bags, 10,000 Human Remains Found on Serial Killer's Farm, we told you the horror story of a killer named Herb Baumeister. In this update Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the story of a little girl whose father was sent away when she was just 2. For 29 years she has wondered what became of her father, and now, thanks to the incredible work of a dedicated county coroner and the scientists at Othram, she knows.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

02:12.39 Herb Baumeister update

05:15.43 Do not know the number of Baumeister victims

09:55.47 Halloran fit the victim profile

15:50.60 Victim remains were burned and crushed

20:07.88 Odd behavior from an early age

25:08.98 Man escapes Baumeister and tells police he was lucky to get out alive

30:01.47 What happens with suicide gunshot wound to the head

36:14.67 Hamilton County Coroner, heroic effort to try and identify victims of Baumeister

41:12.15 Othram is helping families find answers

45:38.59 Conclusion

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INSTANT DEATH! Woman Killed by Rock Thrown From Passing Car

Tue, 06 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Alexa Bartell, 20, is driving her car around 11pm when the driver of a truck coming towards her speeds up to 80 mph and hurls a 9 pound landscape boulder through her front windshield. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the criminal actions of Joseph Koenig, Zachary Kwak, and Nicholas Karol-Chik, that led to the instant death of Alexa Bartell.

Transcript Highlight

00:00.03 Introduction

04:59.70 Driver throws 9 pound rock at passing vehicle

09:30.91 Landscaping stone turned into a projectile

14:18.49 First Responder doesn't know what happened

19:59.48 The guys in the truck had been throwing rocks at other

25:10.65 Weaponizing a bolder

30:09.01 Victim was struck in head

35:28.16 Complex crime scene

40:07.07 This wasn't the first time this happened

45:02.34 People don't feel safe on the road

46:12.08 Conclusion road

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Hollywood Inspired Torture Fantasy Ends in Rape/Murder of a Mom

Thu, 01 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Family members describe 44-year-old Tracy Lynn Wilemon as a fun-loving, spunky, hard-working mother who was thriving in Clanton, Alabama. She was saving money from her job at a nursing home to visit her daughter in Lake Havasu, Arizona. Things were looking good for Tracy. Until her own cousin, Tony Van Dyke and her boyfriend, James "Taz" Osgood lived out some type of crazy rape/murder fantasy that led to the death of Tracy Lynn Wilemon, the death sentence for James "Taz" Osgood, and a life sentence in a federal prison for Tony Van Dyke. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and Joe Scott will walk you through one of the worst crime scenes ever.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.03 Introduction - Justice

03:16.56 Death Penalty

08:14.63 Evil visits

13:45.68 Working in a nursing home

18:54.21 Remembering the victim - death sentence

23:32.20 Knife wound to neck

28:54.83 Multiple stab wounds, torture

34:01.95 Containment of the scene

39:05.14 Death Sentenced being carried out quickly

44:12.64 Description of drug effects used in execution

48:08.45 Conclusion

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N.E.S.K - New England Serial Killer - What We Know So Far

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Is A Serial Killer Hunting Women in New England? Between March 6, 2025, and April 10, 2025, in an area of the United States known as "New England", the remains of 6 women have been found. This information has caused social media to claim a Serial Killer is on the loose and have named him the "New England Serial Killer". Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at what we know about the cases so far and discuss what a Serial Killer is from a investigative standpoint as opposed to the thoughts and ideas of armchair detectives and social media influencers. Should women in the Northeast be afraid? Is there really a new serial killer on the loose?

Transcribe Highlights

00:02.04 Introduction

01:22.25 Why do some murders get attention?

05:22.15 Remains of 6 women recovered over 8 weeks

10:00.24 What number makes a person a "Serial Killer"?

14:53.23 Weapons used by serial killers

20:15.95 BTK Serial Killer - First Killing was of a family

25:02.88 Who are the missing women whose remains recovered

29:57.23 Could it be an accident?

35:29.97 Mental Illness impact on life of victim

39:47.81 Physical description, similarities

43:17.07 Conclusion

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Wrong Man Sent To Prison For Murder of Girlfriend, Othram DNA Solves Catches Real Killer

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Andrea Eilber, 20, is dating KC Grondin, a coworker she met at the local grocery store.

Friends describe their relationship as very "lovey-dovey." When Andrea agrees to house-sit for her aunt and uncle, she invites KC over for a movie night. But when KC arrives, Andrea's car isn't in the driveway, and no one answers the door. He returns home and later receives a text from Andrea canceling their plans and saying they'll talk the next day. KC, thinking she might be breaking up with him, feels devastated.

The next day, when no one can reach Andrea by phone or text, her father organizes a search party. Her car is found abandoned on a nearby road. Inside the house, searchers find Andrea in the basement, tied to a chair and shot in the back of the head.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss how police initially arrested, tried, and convicted the wrong person—while the real killer remained free. Scientists at Othram later helped identify the actual suspect.

It marks another success for Othram and DNASolves.com

Transcribe Highlights

00:29.41 Introduction

00:40.49 Working in grocery store

04:39.77 Andrea Eilber and KC Grondin are infatuated with one another

09:06.09 Andrea is housesitting for relatives, but she is missing

15:10.13 Andrea Eilber is found tied to chair, shot in back of head

20:18.20 Police question everyone about boyfriend/girlfriend relationship, boyfriend identified as suspect, arrested, convicted

25:06.43 Why police give suspects water to drink

30:56.96 KC Grondin, released but under house arrest

35:21.31 Othram case - DNA Solves

40:05.10 Police follow new suspect and find sample to get DNA - Chadwick Mobley pleads no-contest

45:06.35 Prosecutors may charge KC Grondin again

48:46.43 Conclusion

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Father Killed, Throat Slit, Disemboweled - Son Says "Aliens Harvested His Organs"

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Victor Contreras Sr. talked to his son, Victor Contreras Jr., and told him his younger brother, Jaime, was "acting crazy again". After not be able to reach his father for a few days, Victor Contreras Jr., went to the house to check on his 74-year-old father and says he smelled a foul odor coming from an open window. What happened next is the stuff of nightmares. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss what happened inside the house, what the evidence says, and the story being told by Jaime Contreras, the only suspect in the murder of his father.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.62 Introduction

01:20.85 Alien life form took over Dad

03:01.55 Discussion of the bowel

07:07.69 Special scissors in the morgue

10:18.70 Defining unattended death

14:59.66 Body is severely traumatized, flies show up

19:27.46 Any gash, slit, stab wound, etc...increase rate of decomp

24:56.30 Prior attack 30:25.80 Blood spatter, breaking down the terms

35:06.04 Explaining arterial spray

40:07.16 Does he really believe what he claims?

45:24.68 Mental illness

50:17.96 Chain of command on site

52:14.69 Conclusion

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Missing Grandmother Found Buried Under Shed, Encased in Cement

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Marcia Norman is reported missing on April 4 after family and friends realize nobody has seen the 82-year-old since April 1. Investigators find her cars in the driveway, but it seems as though the grandmother was taken in the middle of washing the dishes. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case of Marcia Norman and the man accused of her kidnapping and murder, former pastor and convicted child molester, Jeff Zizz.

00:00.00 Introduction

03:33.98 Marcia Norman, 82, missing

08:33.43 Circumstantial evidence

13:09.70 Chemical Castration

19:26.89 Timeline of events

25:32.28 Who was watching Jeff Zizz

30:02.29 Condition of body in cement

35:07.07 Description of getting body out of ground

40:01.72 Conclusion

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Mom Crashes Car Into Canal, Leaves Daughter, 4, Trapped Under Water

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Juliette Acosta is accused of driving drunk with her four-year-old daughter in the back seat of her vehicle when she crashes into a canal filled with water. As the vehicle fills with water, Acosta, 26, gets out of the vehicle with the help of her uncle, but her daughter Reagan is still in the vehicle. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss what happened to Reagan Herrin as water filled the vehicle while her mother fled the scene.

Transcript Highlights

00:06.08 Introduction

02:00.52 Abandon child strapped in a car seat

04:56.63 Reagan Herrin, four years old, left in car

09:57.00 Canals carry lots of water

15:22.10 Juliette Acosta crashed vehicle into a canal

20:24.56 Mother charged with murder

24:49.33 Deputy arrives and pulls girl out of vehicle

28:36.66 Discussion of pictures of Reagan

33:33.62 What will the water do in the vehicle

37:07.22 Reagan was pulled out of vehicle, deputy immediately began performing CPR

42:58.41 Conclusion

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SICKO! Self-Professed "Wicked Woman" Selling Partial Human Skull on Facebook!

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Investigators get a call about a woman selling human bones on Facebook Marketplace in December 2023. An investigation begins right away, and it doesn't take long for police to verify the information they received. Kymberlee Schopper, 52, is arrested for selling human bones on Facebook marketplace as well as out of her curio shop in Volusia County Florida. Schopper has been advertising items and law enforcement has purchased multiple bones from the store and had them verified. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the website linked to the store run by Kymberlee Schopper, Wicked Wonderland, and the many different signs that point to practices of those who follow the left-hand path. Investigators said they found the following human remains for sale on the store’s website: Two human skull fragments — $90 A human clavicle and scapula — $90 A human rib — $35 A human vertebrae — $35 A partial human skull — $600. Kymberlee Schopper is facing charges of trading in human tissue and the sale of verified human bones out of her curio shop in Orange City, Florida

Transcribe Highlights0:00 - Intro
4:12 - Forensic studies at JSU
9:35 - Woman in Colorado sent to prison for selling body parts
14:05 - Human Bones being sold in store
19:15 - Owner says she doesn't know it is illegal
24:22- Why is store using dot ORG for domain
29:50 - Grave robbers in India
33:20 - Forensic Anthropologist located in Florida
38:10 - Are bones being used in Religious exorcise
40:31 - Outro

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14 DEAD IN 14 MONTHS - Birmingham's Mass Killer!

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Damien Laron McDaniel III - The alleged Mass Murderer nobody has heard about outside of Birmingham, Alabama. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack trace the path of destruction and death attributed to Damien McDaniel III. Joe Scott explains what a mass casualty event looks like to investigator and how each person killed in a Mass casualty incident is a separate murder case, even though multiple murders happen at the same address.

Transcribe Highlights

00:03.38 Introduction

01:59.92 On person responsible for 14 homicides

05:57.48 14 Dead in 14 months

11:11.25 The number of injured is even higher

17:29.01 First murder victim was a firefighter

21:57.34 Is killer also a paid hitman?

26:16.14 Chaos of mass casualty incident

32:24.30 Person found dead outside club, not intended target?

37:48.82 Each body is an individual case

42:27.10 Same person involved in two mass shooting invidents

46:37.75 Local hospital overwhelmed

52:19.28 Was killer trying to create chaos to hid intended target

58:52.19 Conclusion

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Jimmy, 16, Missing 50 YEARS: FOUND! John Doe Remains Found in 1973 Identified in 2025

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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Jimmy Dolison was only 16-years-old in 1972 when he vanished. His family reported him missing in November and looked for him for days, weeks, and months, and years, but the trail went cold and Jimmy became another missing person statistic to the world, but not his family. Imagine the shock family members felt when more than 50-years later, an investigator contacts you to ask questions about your relative that has been missing for more than half a century. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go back in time to try and figure out what happened to Jimmy, all those years ago. Professor Morgan will also explain how partially decomposed remains found in 1973 were able to provide DNA 50 years later that provided a positive identity and solve the disappearance of Jimmy Dolison.

Transcript Highlights
00:00.03 Introduction

05:38.66 Jimmy Dolison missing since 1972

06:53.11 Garnett John Doe, remains found in 1973

11:09.42 Cold weather clothing helps understand the murder

16:44.94 Unidentified remains had multiple pieces of unique jewelry

21:33.74 Did he die when he went missing?

26:36.78 Clothing is not disrupted

31:12.08 Othram DNA work

39:23.34 Conclusion

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Body Found In Freezer in NJ Woods is Missing Mom!

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

John Tyrrell is in the New Jersey woods when he finds a refrigerator that is wrapped in a sleeping bag, secured with blue ratchet straps, and covered with carpet. Tyrrell takes one look inside and calls police, he has just found missing mom, Laura Hughes. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss how the decomposed body is identified and what investigators do to nab the suspect in an international manhunt.

Transcription Highlights

00:03.04 Introduction

03:47.47 Using refrigerator as casket

08:29.44 Digital data solves crimes

12:29.05 Finder wont give phone to police

17:40.80 Did perp keep refrigerator plugged in?

23:05.79 "purge fluid"

28:13.49 Removing clothes from the dead

33:45.56 Positive ID of victim

38:09.70 Items used to identify the dead

43:13.15 Calender in suspect apartment with "X" marks

48:09.54 Bullet defect and trajectory

49:23.36 Conclusion

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SHOCK! Teen Kills Mom, Stepdad, Lives With Bodies for Weeks!

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

A teenager in Wisconsin is accused of killing his mother and his stepfather, then living with the decomposing bodies for weeks before he finally leaves the family home. Joseph Scott Morgan explains how difficult it would be to remain in a home with two decomposing bodies and he breaks down the types of guns and ammunition available to 17-year-old Nikita "Nikki" Casap. Dave Mack explains the family dynamic and how Nikki is also charged with identity theft for trying to pretend he is his now dead stepfather, as well as being charged with murder and more.

Transcript Highlights
00:10.61 Introduction

01:01.83 Spending more time with the dead

05:41.51 Teen kills mom, stepdad, lives with bodies

09:52.98 Making mistakes in murder

15:20.17 Pulling back the blankets

20:51.75 Mother is found in hallway

25:10.98 Backing out of crime scene

29:50.56 Dividing up responsibilities on scene

34:00.22 VERY nice house

39:56.04 Doesn't have to be a body part

43:53.57 Removing each layer

47:45.42 Size of Round and type of stippling

53:28.71 Getting hit with a sledgehammer

55:09.61 Conclusion

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Green Beret Survives Combat; Killed, Dismembered At Home

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

How is it possible for a Green Beret to survive multiple times on the field of combat only to come home and be taken out by his nurse wife? Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the different sides of the same marriage to determine if forensic evidence will explain how Clint Bonnell's body parts ended up in a pond just three miles from his home and just weeks after he retires from military service. How will his wife, Shana Cloud, explain the bullets in her husband's laptop and declining to file a missing person report when he is obviously nowhere to be found?

Transcript Highlights

00:00.71 Introduction

03:16.43 Green Beret skill set

0833.43 Green Beret retires

13:46.78 To be on time is to be late

18:07.48 What was found with first search warrant

23:12.81 Green Beret gone, car in driveway

28:23.25 Remains tossed into pond

33:39.72 Recovering body from a pond

38:20.96 Digital forensic search

42:44.42 Would Green Beret be "on alert"

47:58.59 Bullets in the bookbag and laptop

49:08.59 Conclusion

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OUTRAGE! Video Captures Murder Victim's Body Dragged Down Stairs!

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

A shocking video our of New Orleans shows an Orleans Parish Coroner's Office employee dragging a murder victim's body down the front steps of his home! Project NOLA posts the video to social media and the next day, OUTRAGE. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at what happened on the scene to allow this to take place. Joe takes the time to explain the possible damage being done, not just to the victim, but to the prosecution case at trial.

Transcribe Highlights
00:05.89 Introduction, New Orleans

05:18.12 Description of Large Man dead for a long time

08:26.46 Getting the man down the stairs

10:27.13 The dead deserve dignity and respect

14:28.29 Recalling a story from autobiography

20:08.56 A body being drug from a home

25:08.48 Dragging a body down the stairs

30:00.43 Body is being damaged

35:56.52 Everything in the case can be ruined

40:41.59 Homes are very close

45:51.47 Conclusion

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Former Duke Star Confesses to Gruesome Murder of Beautiful Realtor

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Brandon Braxton played football for Duke University, is twice an Academic All-American, but after his playing career is over, he finds himself back where he went to High School, hanging out with a friend, Whitney Hurd. Hurd is a realtor and enjoys catching up with her old friend, at first, but when he starts hanging around her house and passing out drunk in her driveway, she calls police. When Whitney Hurd is reported missing, one of the only clues is her car. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look behind the front door of a high school friendship that turned deadly. Whitney Hurd actually helps provide a key clue as to what happened to her and who did it. Joseph Scott Morgan explains fingerprints and how they are everywhere, and in this case, put the suspect in the front seat of the victim's vehicle, a place Whitney Hurd never allowed anyone.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

01:21.76 Fingerprints found everywhere

04:52.11 Brandon Braxton, Academic All-American at Duke

10:13.35 Whitney Hurd is found by a Private Detective

15:27.08 Whitney Hurd, 32, realtor, well-off, reported missing

20:02.86 Describing friction ridges on finger prints

25:03.46 Playing football at Duke, academic all-American, good start in life

30:35.38 Whitney Hurd found INSIDE HER HOME

35:18.44 Face covering of murder victim, sign of remorse

39:51.96 Whitney did not let anyone drive her car

44:20.92 Braxton tells police he has never been in Whitney's car

46:06.88 Conclusion

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SHOCKING ARREST! Dad Charged With Kidnap, Rape, Murder, of DAUGHTER

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Kei'Mani Latigue, 13, lives with her grandmother, Dorothy Latigue - just the two of them.

Dorothy works at night and when she comes home the next morning, the door is unlocked, the house is a mess, the gas on the stove is on, and KeiMani is missing. KeiMani's father appears on local TV begging for anyone to please call police to help find his daughter.

Days later, the body of the 13-year-old is found with her hands chopped off and her head nearly severed. And she has been raped.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a close look at the family dynamic as Joe explains how forensics will help investigators determine what happened inside the home as well as where the child's body was found and what led police to arrest Darnell Jones, KeiMani's 33-year-old father.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.62 Introduction

01:20.85 Graffiti says "her life mattered"

03:01.55 13-year-old KeiMani Latigue, missing

07:07.69 Grandmother comes home from work, KeiMani mising

10:18.70 Examine couch for seminal fluid

14:59.66 Talk about force entry and struggle

19:17.46 Dad claims he left his daughter in the home

24:56.30 Father charged with kidnapping

30:25.80 Wounds are incised wounds

35:06.04 Why was body dismembered?

40:07.16 KeiMani was raped

45:24.68 Determining how long a body has been at location

50:17.96 Police charge father with kidnap, rape, murder

57:14.69 Conclusion

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SOLVED! Shoe with Human Foot Found on Beach in 2008 IDENTIFIED

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

On August 5, 2008, a beach goer near the former Silver King Resort, west of Port Angeles, Washington, found a shoe containing a sock and what appeared to be human remains.

It was not the first discovery of its kind—and would not be the last—but today, the person behind the foot has been identified.

Since 2007, at least 20 detached human feet, often in sneakers, have washed ashore along the Salish Sea in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington state. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack examine the mystery and go behind the scenes at Othram to explain how forensic experts identified the remains—and how the public can help.

Othram collaborates with forensic scientists, medical examiners, and law enforcement to solve cases when other methods have failed.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.12 Introductin

01:57.78 A shoe with a human foot found on beach

06:48.11 Water meeting the sea, creating odd currents

12:09.99 How do feet wind up on the beach inside shoes

17:02.94 Geography of the area

23:51.44 Investigation starts very broad

28:31.49 Forensic anthropologist needed to ID remains

33:34.69 Why say "human remains" instead of "foot"

37:10.65 Othram Labs solving mysteries

43:12.33 Conclusion

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Hospital Hides Body In Warehouse While Mom Searches For Missing Daughter

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Jessie Marie Peterson, 31, an attorney with Type One Diabetes, is admitted to the hospital for a diabetes-related illness.
Two days later, she calls her mother around 2:30 p.m. and asks her to come pick her up and take her home. When her mother shows up two-hours later, she is told that Jessie Marie Peterson checked herself out of the hospital, Against Medical Advice (AMA).
Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a close look at what really happened to Jessie Marie Peterson and why was her mother told she had checked out, when according to their own records, she was pronounced dead at 4:27 p.m. at the medical center.
While the family spent over a year looking for Jessie, her body had been sitting in a storage facility.

Transcript Highlights

00:05.18 Introduction

01:59.25 Hospital tells family patient left AMA

06:53.65 Family is looking for Jessie Peterson, attorney

11:48.34 Jessie is ready to leave hospital, accomplished woman

16:11.54 Lawsuit filed

21:10.19 She calls her mother at 2:30, two hours later she is gone

25:20.07 Hospital claims she left AMA

30:22.43 Mother begins looking for Jessie

35:15.51 Jessie Marie Peterson was dead and for a year the family is looking for Jessie

40:06.21 Body is placed into cold storage

45:08.31 Her body is found after a year, remains are not viewable

49:01.24 Conclusion

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Satanist Murders Two, Eats Ears, Drinks Blood From Coffee Cup

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Jared Ondrea, 22, and Deshea Butler, 35, are both living in a halfway house in South Carolina when Marc-Anthony Cantrell is placed in the home. Jared Ondrea goes missing and a search fails to find the young man who was trying to learn to live on his own as an adult. Five months later, Deshea Butler goes missing, and this time when police begin searching they find security footage of Marc-Anthony Cantrell carrying what appears to be the body of Butler out of the house. Confronted with the information, Cantrell confesses to killing both men, and adds some information not everyone was ready to hear. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at what it was like to have a person called a "Budding Serial Killer" as a roommate in a halfway house. Joe will also explain how the devil worshiping man with tattoos of devil horns, could remove enough blood from one of his victims to drink it from a coffee cup for a week.

Transcript Highlights

00:20.04 Introduction

02:34.85 Marc-Anthony Cantrell, 26, satanist, called a budding serial killer

09:13.65 Two murders in South Carolina

14:44.86 Grandmother of Jared Ondrea files suit

19:28.08 Jared Ondrea, 22, body hasn't been found

24:21.46 Orders of Protective custody in New Orleans

29:07.42 People in need of help, not getting it

33:11.64 Why has this story stayed under the radar for two years

37:22.67 Removing the ears, ritualized

44:20.51 Conclusion

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Cartel Concentration Camp Crematory Uncovered In Mexico

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Families and friends looking for answers about what happened to their loved ones who vanished. A volunteer group uncovers a site that looks like a concentration camp out of WW2, but it is in 2025 Mexico! Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take an up close look at what was found, including three underground ovens used for cremating bodies. Joe explains the forensics in trying to identify some of the souls whose remains, are now cremains.

Transcript Highlights
00:00.03 Introduction

02:38.66 Disposal of human beings like WW2 Concentration camps

06:53.11 Since 1962, 120,000 people have gone missing in Mexico

11:09.42 Amongst the horror, children's toys are found

16:44.94 Volunteers using methods that are not very high tech

21:33.74 Looking for markers in the ground

26:36.78 Look for bodies by poking the ground

31:12.08 Piles of shoes at the Holocaust museum

35:03.34 Conclusion

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SOLVED! 35-Year Double Murder Cold Case CONVICTION

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Kenneth Perry thought he got away with the rape and murder of Pamela Sumter and the murder of her brother, John Sumter. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack dive into a case that remained unsolved for over 30 years but was eventually solved by a combination of good detective work and brilliant DNA work done by Othram labs. Check out www.dnasolves.com to find out how you can help. Joe explains the crime scene and how investigators were able to use a "dying declaration" to get justice for Pamela and John Sumter,
Kenneth Perry was convicted of the rape and murder of Pamela Sumter and the murder of her brother, John Sumter. He was sentenced on March 18, 2025 to three consecutive life sentences, plus 100 years in custody.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00:01.81 Introduction - Malignant Heart

00:03:19.67 Othram solving the cold cases

00:05:53.64 Unsolved case of double homicide

00:09:47.60 DNA And "dying declaration"

00:14:12.53 Why Would some die after surviving two weeks

00:20:48.31 Early days of genetic material of sex offenders

00:25:18.44 Pattern wear of shoe providing evidence

00:30:01.82 Determining knife, double edge or single edge

00:36:23.44 Learning about DNA watching the OJ Trial

00:41:31.50 Crowdfunding and Access to grant writers

00:46:05.88 Suspect is now 56, got DNA sample that matched victims in Ga and Detroit

00:49:01.54 Othram helping solve cold cases

00:53:02.29 Conclusion

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Teen Shoots Dad To Death, Stabs Mom To Death: Who Is Collin Griffith?

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Collin Griffith shoots his father to death at 15 and claims self-defense. 18-months later, Collin Griffith kills his mother, he is now 17 and claims self-defense again. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take on the story of the teen who killed both of his parents, in different states and in different years and used two different types of weapons to kill his parents and claims self-defense. It is a story can only be understood when the forensic evidence is brought to the front. Collin Griffith, 15, is charged with killing his father on February 14, 2023 in Oklahoma. Judge drops charges. Same teen, now 17, charged with killing his mother September 8, 2024, jury decision Not Guilty. What Happened!

Transcript Highlights00:00.23 Introduction

03:04.77 The Fickle Finger of Fate, defined

04:59.94 Boys kills dad when he is 15 and mother when he is 1709:53.26 The prosecution walking a tight wire talking about age of suspect

15:44.30 Finding a weapon doesn't tell the whole story

20:25.10 Kills dad with a gun, claims self-defense

25:42.92 Judge drops the charges against the boy30:23.32 How does a teen kill both parents, time and distance apart35:22.38 What evidence is left behind in the blood40:13.23 Griffith claims long fight leading up to fatal injury

43:03.56 Conclusion

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Alone, Hungry, Thirsty and Lost: The Final Days of Gene Hackman

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the latest information regarding the death of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa. Their deaths have been called "suspicious" by some in the press, but Joe Scott explains what actually happened and why their deaths, while shocking and sad, are not suspicious.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.90 Introduction - The Death of Gene Hackman

03:40.86 Gene Hackman found in "Mud Room" and wife found in Bathroom with pills spilled around her

08:59.26 Dog found dead in bathroom had some type of treatment at the vet

14:09.85 Actors with dementia trying to perform

19:03.30 Gene Hackman was totally dependent on his wife

24:31.11 What does "mummify" mean

28:59.43 Gene Hackman's wife died from Hantavirus

33:23.47 Hantavirus is spread by rodents

39:08.17 Gene Hackman didn't drink any water or eat any food days leading up to his death

41:44.62 Conclusion

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"Mad Scientist" and Drug Dealer Charged in Deaths of KC Chiefs Fans

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

January 9, 2024, three Kansas City Chiefs football fans were found dead in the snow outside their friend's house where they got together to watch the game between the Chiefs and the Chargers on January 7. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack update the case with the recent arrests of Jordan Willis and Ivory Carson, both charged with three counts of Involuntary Manslaughter and two counts of delivery of a controlled substance.

Transcribe Highlights
00:07.65 Introduction - Intentions

04:06.26 Mixing chemicals in high school

10:03.72 Mixing Cocaine with fentanyl

15:00.84 Three men are found dead outside, one asleep inside. No foul play?

20:00.46 Homicide or accidental death

24:00.14 Did the three men go outside for a smoke?

29:08.22 How the men were found

34:18.27 Police know how to get information

39:08.15 Intention

42:13.77 Conclusion

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Double Murderer Executed by Firing Squad. Why?

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Brad Sigmon was sentenced to death in South Carolina for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend's parents, David and Gladys Larke. He confessed to killing both of them with a baseball bat, then attempted to kidnap his ex-girlfriend, Rebecca Barbare, using a gun stolen from David Larke. Barbare jumped from a moving car and ran to escape Sigmon. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the crimes that led to the confession, conviction, and ultimate sentencing to death of Brad Sigmon, and how Sigmon's own protest over lethal injection caused him to be put to death by firing squad

Transcript Highlights

00:00.06 Introduction

02:05.23 Double murder with a baseball bat

05:03.73 Description of injuries caused by baseball bat to the face

10:06.12 Talk about Brad Sigmon

14:55.81 Sigmon uses bat to kill both parents of girlfriend

20:09.81 Joseph talks about "Paths of Glory" - movie

31:31.60 Military executions

36:12.67 Discussion of execution methods in USA

41:40.28 Conclusion

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An Unhappy Anniversary - The Death of Emily Jean Schwartz

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:39:19 +0000

On a camping trip to celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary, Joseph Ferlazzo, 42, and his wife, Emily Jean Schwartz, 22, get into an argument. This much is understood.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and the evidence that will reveal who is telling the truth—the prosecution or the defense. The defense claims the couple argued, and Emily stormed out of the converted bus, never to be seen again.

Prosecutors allege that Ferlazzo shot his wife twice in the head and dismembered her on the bus.

Transcribe highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

03:29.92 Sharing camping stories

08:00.53 Husband twice as old as wife

14:20.33 Returns home without wife

19:16.42 Relax by getting away

24:26.58 Wife is supposedly in the woods, alone for days

28:35.69 Husband claims he is the victim

33:06.37 Dismembering the body

37:49.67 Father's wife died, never charged

41:25.68 Conclusion

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Brother Eats Brother's Eyeball After Allegedly Killing Him with Golf Club

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:50:00 +0000

The Hertgen family is wealthy and full of athletes. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at the family dynamic that led to one brother allegedly murdering his younger brother, taking out his eyeball and possibly sitting down to a dinner of "brother's eyeball". Joe explains what takes place removing an eyeball and how investigators determine a golf club was used in the murder.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.03 Introduction

02:55.32 Did Brother take eyeball out of brother

08:20.08 Cat is also dead

13:03.60 questions about crime scenes

18:05.90 First documented murder

23:42.72 Cannibalism

29:31.53 1500 story of incest and cannibalism

34:29.38 Golf club used as weapon

39:54.92 Removing an eyeball

44:03.91 Conclusion

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Who or What Killed Gene Hackman?

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Mystery deepens as Gene Hackman and his wife's autopsies are completed and doubts grow over smiling daughter's carbon monoxide theory. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss how authorities investigating the mysterious death of the legendary actor, his wife, and their dog have concluded autopsies on both victims. Amid intense speculation about how Hackman and Betsy Arakawa, aged 95 and 64, tragically died inside their $3.8 million home in Sante Fe, New Mexico, investigators have revealed no external trauma was seen on either body. How did 95-year-old Gene Hackman and his 64-year-old wife die at the same time - in different areas of their home?

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.25 Introduction

05:34.35 Career of Gene Hackman

09:03.74 Father abandoned Gene Hackman when he was 8

13:55.49 Hackman wife is concert pianist

17:13.61 Body Bags now around 350 episodes

20:58.98 Discussion - Hackman is 95, wife is 64 - die at the same time?

24:50.05 Talk about reporting of the case

27:58.09 Why were they found in different areas of house

31:23.12 In public Hackman was leaning on his wife to steady himself

34:56.15 Talk about the search warrant

39:06.13 Discussion of Carbon Monoxide

44:31.40 Looking at the medical history of Hackman

47:35.12 Randy Quaid think Hackman was murdered because of residual money

52:07.40 Discussion of impact open doors could have on remains
Conclusion

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Mom on a Mission - a Killer's Confession

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Jamie Dickerson never believed her daughter, April Holt, committed suicide. Not because she is in denial, but because she knows her daughter was trying to leave her marriage and had told her husband two weeks before her death that she wants a divorce. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case, how 29-year-old April Holt is found unresponsive in the bathroom of the home she shares with her husband and son, with a plastic bag taped tightly around her neck. Why is her death ruled a suicide, and what does her mother do to catch the killer and see him go to trial for murder. This episode discusses domestic abuse and suicide. If you are someone you know is living in a domestic violence situation, there is a toll free number to call: 1-800-799-3233. There is also a number if you are having thoughts of self-harm or even taking your own life, the suicide hotline and Crisis Lifeline - 988.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.97 Introduction
NOTE - In this episode both domestic violence and suicide will be discussed

05:09.61 Victim's mother solves the crime

09:50.94 Discussion of the "finder" and the "reporter"

14:11.21 Talk about framing of a story for the police on the scene

18:58.24 How cases are classified as "final exit" case

25:00.55 Discussion of broken blood vessels in the cheek

30:20.65 Claim of "sex play" gone too far and staging the scene

35:02.96 Killer sentenced to two-years in prison

39:29.59 Sentence is a "slap in the face to victims of domestic violence"

41:03.67 Conclusion Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-3233
Suicide Hotline and crisis lifeline - 988

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Attorney Murdered on Yacht: Whose Pink Fingernails Found Broken Off In His Chest

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Joseph Donohue's son can't get in touch with the Boston attorney and after two days failing to connect, reaches out to police asking for a welfare check. When Police arrive at the yacht in Boston Harbor, they can see a woman inside running around. When she finally answers the door, the 24-year-old Nora Nelson lies to police - giving them a false name and telling them Donohue was at a "Strip Club". Nelson tries to keep the officers from entering the houseboat but they are insistent, and once inside they find the body of the attorney wrapped in a rug with weights tied to his hands. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the forensic evidence that will be used in court and get into the background of the case of a 65-year-old Attorney dead on his houseboat and the 24-year-old woman with warrants in other states who lies to police from the beginning.

Transcript Highlights
00:04.29 Introduction

02:01.09 Living and sleeping on a houseboat

04:49.17 Son calls police asking for a "welfare check" of his father

10:36.80 Female on the boat lies to police

15:01.19 Victim had two dogs living with him

20:11.93 Nora claims blood on boat was from her "period"

25:37.41 What do police do when they find what appears to be a body wrapped in carpet?

30:22.56 Going through crime scene photos prior to trial

35:13.75 Explaining bone density of skull in different places

40:20.98 Looking for "defects" in the skull

44:09.96 Matching the blade of knife with tip part broken off

46:15.65 Conclusion

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6-month-old Beaten To Death in Home Filled with Feces, Urine, Roaches: The Death of Kaysyn Hedrick

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000

A 911 call is made by a father who claims he woke up and found his 6-month-old son unresponsive. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about how first responders report the smell of urine and feces in the home and how roaches are seen all over the kitchen. Joe also explains the injuries that led to the beating death of a 6-month-old boy at the hand of his own father. Kaysyn Hedrick's name was never used by the courts until after his father was sentenced for his murder.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

05:07.11 Six-month-old child beaten to death by his father

09:50.22 Not releasing child's name

15:11.11 Story about Roaches taking over home

20:01.24 Investigators have to see location of death

25:05.40 Shane Hedrick taken to sheriff's office

30:07.09 Taking the measure of a scene

35:03.98 Deciding on manner and cause of death

40:10.49 Child robbed of his life

47:07.75 Conclusion

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Amber Alert Cancelled, Baby Evelyn Found in Trash Bag in Playhouse, Mother Charged with Murder

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Evelyn Boswell's grandfather reports her missing when he realizes nobody has seen the 15-month-old baby for several weeks. An Amber Alert is issued and Evelyn's mother, Megan Boswell, does interviews on tv and with investigators. Boswell gives three totally different stories about where baby Evelyn is and investigators eventually find the baby in her grandfather's backyard in trash bag located in a child's playhouse. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case with Joseph providing expert analysis of the decomposition that would occur under the conditions.

Transcript Highlights
00:01.58 Introduction
02:58.46 Amber Alert - Baby Evelyn Boswell
05:18.99 Grandfather reports Baby Evelyn missing
10:06.94 Megan Boswell tells multiple stories
15:11.50 How does investigation move forward when main person is lying?
20:38.25 Megan Boswell trying to deceive investigators
25:14.65 Evelyn Boswell found in a trash bag inside playhouse
30:25.87 Manner of death is Homicide.
35:05.39 Body had been "unnaturally folded"
40:37.51 latent prints found on tin foil
44:02.48 Conclusion

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Toes Of A Child Sticking Out of Dirt in Backyard

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000

A landlord staging a property in preparation for a new tenant, sees what appears to be the foot of a child sticking out of the ground. The landlord calls police, and they find the remains of 9-year-old Zemar King III buried in a shallow grave. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about how the mother of Zemar King, Brandee Pierce, is caught in Georgia in January, where she is already in jail, charged with abuse of her three-year-old days before Christmas. Joseph Scott Morgan also explains how investigators determined how Brandee Pierce "smothered" and "choked" her 9-year-old son to death before burying him in a backyard grave and then skipping town.

Transcript Highlights
00:00.01 Introduction
01:53.70 Zemar King, little boy left in shallow grave by his mother
04:57.48 Would a human foot look different than a plastic foot in the dirt?
10:25.76 Investigators benefit from "containment"
14:33.47 Reactionary event, panic
19:12.14 How long has it been since victim died
24:41.84 What actually happened to Zemar?
30:15.49 Hands and feet of Zemar were tied together
36:24.94 Determining how Zemar died - smothering / neck compression
39:28.72 Conclusion: Case is still active, we will update

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Two Executions Same Day 60 Minutes Apart: Will Kohberger Face Needle or Bullet?

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000

James Dennis Ford and Richard Lee Tabler were both executed on February 13, 2025. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the crimes that led both men to be sentenced to death as well as take a look at methods for carrying out the death sentence. They also discuss what Bryan Kohberger might face if he is convicted in the Idaho Student murders. James Dennis Ford murdered Gregory and Kimberly Malnory while on a fishing trip. Ford shot Gregory Malnory in the head with a .22-caliber rifle, bludgeoned him, and slit his throat. Ford then raped, beat, and shot Kimberly Malnory. All of this in front of their 23-month old daughter, Maranda Malnory, who was left behind as Ford fled the scene. Maranda was found nearly a day later - dehydrated and covered in insect bites by an employee of a nearby sod farm. Florida executed James Dennis Ford by lethal injection.

One Hour Later:

Richard Lee Tabler was 24 when he fatally shot four people in 2004. He has always admitted this, but was only tried and convicted for the murders of Mohamed-Amine Rahmouni, 25, and Haitham Frank Zayed, 28. Texas used a lethal injection of pentobarbital to kill the 46-year-old Tabler, whose mother and sister were among the witnesses to the execution.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.91 Introduction
04:34.95 Two executions take place on the same day
09:08.11 During murders, mother puts 23-month old daughter in car
14:42.77 Being present for autopsy of person sentenced to death
20:08.51 Convict said to have mind of a child
25:14.09 Victims lured to death
29:14.60 Tabler gets "saved" while in prison
38:48.20 Discussion of Capital Punishment qualified
43:11.80 Using Capital punishment as a deterrent
48:10.55 Conclusion

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Jack the Ripper IDENTIFIED!

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:44:54 +0000

There are at least five murders attributed to "Jack the Ripper".

Mary Ann Nichols: The first confirmed victim, murdered on August 31, 1888
Annie Chapman: Murdered on September 8, 1888
Elizabeth Stride: Murdered on September 30, 1888
Catherine Eddoweson: Murdered on September 30, 1888
Mary Jane Kelly: Murdered on November 9, 1888

Some people believe there were victims prior to August 31, 1888, and after November 9, 1888. That is a discussion for a different day. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the evidence that includes DNA from one of the victims as well as a possible suspect and how working with genealogists led investigators to the only person that could have provided the DNA found on the shawl of Catherine Eddoweson. Case Solved!

Transcript Highlights

00:00.46 Introduction of Jack The Ripper case

04:02.28 Joe Scott describes time in London

09:11.12 Immigration impact

13:35.86 Murders included in the Jack the Ripper case

18:35.25 Studying the case

22:25.38 Developing skills with knife

28:47.48 Suspect described - leather apron

34:15.31 Ripper Case sold a lot of news papers

38:55.85 DNA from Shawl

43:45.68 Victim and suspect DNA evidence

49:28.75 Suspect was "hair dresser" as well as barber

50:13.83 Conclusion

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Recently Engaged Couple Found Dead: Methanol Found in "Homemade" Limoncello

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000

When a young newly engaged couple pick up a couple bottles of "Homemade" Limoncello from a local restaurant, they assume they are buying a product that is safe to consume. Greta Marie Otteson, 33, and Els Arno Quinton, 36 are world travelers, she from Great Brittain, he from South Africa, and are celebrating their recent engagement. Cleaning service shows up to clean their room on Boxing Day (December 26) and discovers the couple dead. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look what really happened to the couple and other world travelers who are suffering the same or similar fate.

Transcript Highlights

00:12.79 Introduction: Mardi Gras - Drinking Alcohol

05:07.20 Ethanol vs methanol

10:05.13 "Homemade" Limoncello

15:13.03 Alcohol effects

20:06.36 Atlanta Bathtub gin

25:01.39 Alcohol - different types

30:21.77 Victim contacted mother, talks about worst hangover

35:31.07 Tourist dying drinking methanol instead of ethanol

40:02.02 Methanol poisoning, suspects being charged with murder

43:17.41 Conclusion

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Hollywood Girls Night Out: Dumped at the Hospital

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Christy Giles, 24, and Hilda Cabrales-Arzola, 26, go out for a "Girls Night" of dancing and fun. Hilda is an interior designer and architect and Christy has been modeling since she was a teen, and is now becoming an actress. Dancing at an after party the girls meet a hollywood producer, David Pierce and a couple of his friends. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss what happened after Christy and Hilda went back to Pierce's apartment and how each woman was dumped on the sidewalk at different hospitals hours apart by men wearing masks in a car without a license plate

Transcript Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction - producers
process.

03:02.04 Christy and Hilda - Girls night out, never made it back home

08:07.00 Both women dropped off at hospitals, license plates removed from vehicle

12:01.75 Worst case scenario for medical professionals

16:31.12 UBER arrives, leaves without Christy and Hilda

21:27.31 How fast drugs breakdown in system

27:11.05 Hilda had different drugs than Christy in her system

32:32.43 When charges against Pierce became public, more women came forward

34:31.88 Conclusion

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The Case For An Autopsy: Who Decides?

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000

In Nebraska a 56-year-old man dies alone in his apartment. He seemed to be in good health and his family wants to know what happened. A police officer decides the man died of "Natural Causes" so no autopsy is performed. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about legal death investigation and who makes the call when it comes to the "Manner of Death".

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

04:38.56 Story of regret

10:35.89 Things that appear to be "natural"

15:35.28 When the coroner is elected position

20:18.72 Who makes a great legal death investigator

25:37.62 Determining manner and cause of death

30:50.66 Discussion of Coroner state

35:20.27 What qualifies a police officer to determine "natural causes"?

37:06.32 Conclusion

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Ellen Greenberg Update: ME Says He Was Wrong! NOT Suicide!

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Transcribe Highlights

00:00:00 Introduction

03:29.50 Dr. Osbourne changes ruling from homicide to suicide

07:23.79 The life of Ellen Greenberg

12:21.71 location of injuries

17:19.04 Joe talks about autopsy

22:22.18 Greenberg had active day, no issues

27:36.97 Classification of "manner of death"

32:45.96 Giving a statement to police

37:06.32 Steps in death investigation

42:48.71 Conclusion

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Serial Killer Sings "99 Bottles of Beer" At Sentencing in Front of Victims Families

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Best Friends Jennifer Duey, 20, and Michelle Xavier, 18, attended a birthday dinner for a family member and are last seen together around 10:15 p.m Saturday, February 1, 1986, at a convenience store. Just over two hours later Jennifer and Michelle are found dead on the side of the road, nude, their clothing hung on a barbed wire fence. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the crime scene and how DNA was used to get a conviction after 40 years as a cold case. In a shocking turn, after being convicted of the double homicide, David Misch sings "99 bottles of beer" during victim impact statements and sentencing

Transcript Highlights

00:00.71 Introduction

01:29.45 Last Photo taken of victims

04:48.63 Joe Shares personal story of recent health issue

08:06.47 February 2, 1986, Jennifer and Michelle go to dinner party

10:50.46 Discussion of how victims came in contact with suspect

15:22.11 Jennifer and Michelle bodies found by person on motorcycle

20:06.70 Victims were nude, clothing hung on barbed wire fence

24:56.80 Jennifer killed by gunshot wounds

30:01.86 In rape cases, searching for forced sexual trauma

35:15.81 In 1986 DNA was known, but it wasn't until 2016 it was used to find suspect in this case

40:00.58 Convicted individuals acting out in court

46:01.90 Conclusion

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SHOCKING AUTOPSY Who or What Killed Noah Presgrove "The Best of Body Bags"

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:45:00 +0000

The autopsy of Noah Presgrove is released and for the first time in the history of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, Joe is going to issue you a warning for what you are about to hear. Noah Presgrove is at a birthday, end of summer, labor day party with friends all weekend. But something happened Sunday night to cause Noah to leave the party by himself. He is found the next morning at 5:53am, alone, dead, on the side of a rural highway. He is naked except for a pair of shoes, but one of the shoes isn't his, it belongs to a guy asleep at the house where the party took place. The "friends" he has known all of his life aren't talking. His brother sees teeth scattered near his brother's body and pieces of chain. Who or What killed Noah Presgrove? Will the autopsy help answer the question?

Transcript Highlights

00:00:08 Introduction: Growing up in rural area

00:03:10 Talk about List of Injuries

00:05:17 Discussion of group dynamics

00:09:12 Discussion of what happens to clothing

00:12:27 Talk about social media evidence

00:16:11 Discussion of internal injuries

00:20:26 Discussion of injuries cased by falling out of a truck

00:24:14 Talk about skull fractures 00:28:32 Discussion of brain fluid

00:32:52 Discussion of broke teeth 00:36:03 Talk about animals and body on road

00:37:52 Discussion of cervical injuries 00:40:00 Discussion of abrasions

00:41:47 Talk about being hit by car

00:43:59 Discussion of data

00:44:17 Conclusion; After the autopsy we still don’t have answers

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173 days, 100 feet: The Death of Valerie Tindall - "The Best of Body Bags"

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 02:40:00 +0000

A family moves to the country to get away from the crime of the big city only to find that evil exists in small towns and big cities alike. A 17-year-old girl develops a close bond to a harmless older neighbor, but the harmless old man is really a wolf in sheep's clothing and when the 17-year-old goes missing the neighbor helps look as hard as anyone. As long as nobody comes to his house to look too close. For 173 days the girl is missing, her heartbroken parents don't realize she is only 100 feet away from their front door. Buried in a homemade box, just for her.
Joseph Scott Morgan breaks down the case of the teen girl hidden away in a homemade coffin and how difficult it will be to get the evidence to determine what really caused her death. Dave Mack joins in on the search for facts, and Valerie Tindall.

Transcript
00:01:02 Discussion of 173 days without knowing location of your child
00:02:26 Valerie Tindall, 17, and missing
00:03:29 Mother said Patrick Scott acted like jealous boyfriend
00:04:21 Discussion of age difference
00:06:55 Valerie Tindall is missing
00:10:00 Talk about Forensic Anthropology
00:11:28 Disturbed areas of soil in backyard
00:12:30 17-year-old girl bonds with 59-year-old man, odd
00:13:22 What does FBI mean to a case
00:14:32 The neighbor Valerie has “bond” with charged with lying to police
00:16:03 Discussion of providing false hope to lure out suspect
00:17:24 Investigators wonder if someone is helping her stay gone
00:18:29 Victim has been missing since June
00:22:24 Bright Orange fingernail polish Valerie Tindall was wearing
00:23:29 Taking down a structure, burning, why?
00:27:17 Talk about the VHS tapes found in box
00:29:11 Discussion of murder weapon, a belt
00:30:56 Suspect claims he is the victim?
00:32:29 Discussion about condition of the body
00:33:39 Why did the suspect dig holes in his property?
00:35:17 Talk about the story from the suspect does not make sense
00:36:35 Some evidence might have been lost

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12 Dead Bodies in 22 Months; Does Austin Have A Serial Killer? 'The Best of Body Bags'

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:39:35 +0000

At least 12 bodies have been pulled from "Lady Bird Lake" in Austin, Texas in the last 22 months. Some can be explained as deaths that happen on or near a lake, but not all. On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan will break down the difference between a regular death in a lake and a possible serial killer, while Dave Mack breaks down the stories behind the victims.

Transcript Highlights00:16.18 Introduction about water and murder
03:37.66 Discussion does Austin have a serial killer?
08:13.12 Discussion what does "serial killer" do to an area
13:22.11 Talk about other serial killers, were they really caught
17:54.47 Talk about witnessing a death on the water
22:03.17 Discussion of toxicology
27:53.13 Discussion of victims
32:38.32 Talk about water as a dumping ground
36:26.16 Discussion of decomposition in water
40:04.57 Talk about water flow
47:42.83 Discussion about rumors over fact
Conclusion

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Murder or Self Defense Shocking New Info - Only Fans Model Covered in Blood "Best of Body Bags"

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

OnlyFans and Instagram model, Courtney Tailor, is rich and famous. She is living in a luxury high-rise in Edgewater, Miami, Florida and has banked over $3 Million dollars in the two years leading up to the death of her boyfriend, Christian Obumseli.
Her real name is Courtney Clenney and she is charged with second-degree murder with a deadly weapon in the death of Christian Obumseli, 27, in her high-rise Miami-area apartment on April 3, 2022. Clenney claims she killed Obumseli in self-defense.
Joseph Scott Morgan takes an up-close look at recently released information about what happened that fateful night and provides new insight into the death of Christian Obumseli. Was it self-defense or murder?

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00 Introduction of case - why would you throw your only weapon?

00:02:00 A single stab wound by a thrown knife

00:06:37 Courtney Clenney and boyfriend fought

00:10:56 Funny stuff about throwing knives

00:15:26 911 call, victim says "I'm going to die"

00:19:43 Clenney claims she through kitchen knife from 10 feet away

00:24:16 Discussion of laptop, text messages, email

00:28:26 The Love of Money

00:30:55 Courtney Clenney, drunk, approaches teen in parents neighborhood

00:33:23 Conclusion – portent of things to come

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Sex, Deception, and Murder: The Chilling Story of Shaye Groves and the Brutal Death of Frankie Fitzgerald - "Best of Body Bags"

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

In this episode of "Body Bags," we unravel the harrowing story of Shaye Groves, a woman consumed by her obsession with serial killers and ultimately implicated in the brutal murder of her boyfriend, Frankie Fitzgerald Delving into the chilling fascination that permeated her life and relationships, the hosts uncover the disturbing evidence that led to the gruesome crime. Hosts Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack explore the challenges investigators face when encountering an unfamiliar crime scene and the unsettling environment they discover including a macabre collection of serial killer images and the couple's history of violent, videotaped sex acts. They discuss Shaye Groves' possible premeditation of the murder, her manipulation and blackmail of previous partners through recorded sex acts, and her meticulous execution of the crime, such as using bleach to clean up the scene.

Shownotes:

00:20 - Intro to case.

02:10 - Dave Mack gives background and overview of case.

04:10 - What impact did having serial killer images in her home have on Shay Groves and her mindset?

05:25 - The disturbing nature of Shay Groves' obsession and how it relates to the crime and her life.

07:10 - Shay Groves and Frankie Fitzgerald's romantic relationship and Shaye's controlling nature.

09:25 - Challenges investigators face when entering an unfamiliar crime scene and disturbing evidence and how their first impressions can impact their investigation.

11:50 - The couple's history of violent sex acts captured on video and how this escalated.

14:00 - The use of bleach in morgue cleanups and how the smell of bleach can linger, connecting it to the crime scene.

15:10 - Possibility of Shea Groves planning the murder and the use of bleach to clean the crime scene.

19:50 - Shea's obsession with serial killers, dark imagery, and the types of knives used in the murder.

21:55 - JoScott talks about the differences between single-edged and double-edged knife wounds.

24:40 - The catastrophic loss of blood that led to Frankie's death and Shaye’s possible motives and methods during the attack.

26:40 - Determining if any wounds were inflicted post-mortem and whether the crime was a torture event or a dark fantasy acted out by Shaye.

28:54 - Outro.

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Sins of the Father: The Death of Dylan Redwine "The Best of Body Bags"

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Dylan Redwine is forced to spend Thanksgiving with his father in Colorado. He doesn't want to be there because he knows some things about his father, secret, disgusting things, and he just doesn't want to be around him. But due to his parent divorce he has to go. Dylan Redwine goes missing, his dad suggests a bear might have got him. It takes time, but in the end, Forensics will tell the entire story of what happened to Dylan Redwine.Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they break down a story that took years to finish and includes blood, sex, knives, and bones.

Time Code Highlights.

00:01:40 Redwine Murder was one of the first Joseph Scott Morgan covered in media

00:04:00 Dylan must go to his father’s house in Colorado for Thanksgiving

00:05:08 Mark Redwine house burned down previously

00:07:03 Discussion of children of divorce, Dylan did not want to be with his father

00:08:20 Talk about pictures Dylan and his brother saw on their dad’s computer

00:09:30 Joe talks the information he was given to cover story on network show

00:11:03 Pictures of Mark Redwine in lingerie, makeup, eating out of diaper

00:13:09 Joe tells story of being embarrassed comparing it to how Mark Redwine was embarrassed his children found out about secret pictures

00:15:00 Discussion about the boys confronting their father over his pictures

00:16:50 Talk about Mark Redwine responding to Corey about the pictures

00:19:25 Joe talks about Mark Redwine being humiliated and angry

00:20:45 Redwine claims he went to store, Dylan was gone when he got back

00:21:35 Discussion about Corey Redwine being several years older than Dylan

00:22:45 Talk about forensics and how nothing is ever hidden

00:24:04 Joe talks about a dog finding blood in the home

00:26:05 Blood from Dylan would have to have been from recent visit

00:30:04 Joe talks about a murder case without a body

00:31:00 Both femurs of Dylan Redwine found 8 miles from Mark Redwine home

00:32:43 Bones found on a road could have been drug by an animal

00:34:14 Determining whether the bones were separated by human using tools

00:36:05 Talk about Mark Redwine mentioning something to a friend about blunt force trauma and they would need to find his head

00:37:45 Dylan Redwine skull found

00:39:00 No animals in the area that would drag remains up the mountain

00:40:10 Talk about surface deposition

00:41:05 Mark Redwine said Dylan may have been attacked by a bear.

00:43:50 What the skull tells investigators. Took several months to identify

00:45:12 Joe explains using sinus for identification

00:46:45 Skull fractures show blunt force trauma. Two linear marks consistent with a knife blade found on skull.

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Teen Missing Two Months, Found Naked, Shot in Back of Head "Best of Body Bags"

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Recorded LIVE at CrimeCon Nashville, 2024:In this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan explains how he challenges his class at Jacksonville State University to try and solve a cold case. Two years in a row, two different classes and students chose the unsolved murder of Blake Chappell. Blake Chappell tells his mother he is having the best night of his life with his girlfriend at the East Coweta High School Homecoming Dance.Within a matter of hours, Blake will find himself chased out of his girlfriend’s house in the middle of the night, walking down the road at 5 a.m. texting his girlfriend, and telling her police just stopped and talked to him. One last text to his girlfriend that he is getting cold, and his phone goes quiet.Blake Chappell is 17 and he never makes it back to his friend’s house. He just vanishes into thin air. It is October 16, 2011. Two months later on December 17, 2011, his nearly naked body is found floating in a creek, he has been shot in the back of the head.The case is still unsolved. But new search warrants were served in March 2024, will there be justice for Blake Chappell?

Transcript Highlights

00:00:13 Introduction Blake Chappel Case

00:04:40 Discuss of family financial issues

00:08:28 Blake finds ex-girlfriend who ran away

00:10:32 Blake beaten up by ex’s stepfather

00:12:26 Blake put in jail for finding his ex

00:17:35 Mother takes Blake and date to homecoming dance

00:20:48 Discussion of Blake activities walking in the night

00:24:24 Talk about Blake walking miles to see girlfriend

00:28:08 Talk about Blake texting girlfriend

00:31:49 Talk about Blake doesn’t make it back to Austin’s house

00:37:36 Discussion Blake shot in back of head

00:43:22 Discussion rumors about Blake’s death

00:48:12 Discussion Blake found wearing underwear, no shoes

00:52:34 Conclusion Joseph Scott Morgan lets his JSU class pick unsolved crime to solve Two years in a row the case of Blake Chappel is chosen for the project

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Dismemberment and the Desecration of the Dead Body Bags Live at CrimeCon 2023 "The Best of Body Bags"

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Over the last few years, more and more death scenes involve dismemberment.An "obsessed" true crime fan in South Korea thinks she can pull off the perfect murder, so how did Jung Yoo-Jung get caught? Taylor Schabusiness tells police she doesn't remember strangling her boyfriend, but it felt good. She leaves his severed head in a bucket for his mother to find.And in Tennessee, prosecutors say Joel Guy Jr created a "diabolical stew of human remains" with his mother's head when he finds out his parents are cutting him off.Joseph Scott Morgan breaks down the forensics and Dave Mack keeps the stories moving in this fast-paced edition of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan in front of a live audience at CrimeCon 2023 in Orlando, Florida

Time Code Highlights.

00:02:50 South Korean Woman Jung Yoo-Jung is said to be an obsessed crime fan

00:03:17 Discussion of how 23-year-old woman pretends to be a 14-year-old school girl

00:04:19 Jung Yoo-jung wants to commit a homicide and dismember the victim to try and get away with murder..

00:05:33 Her plan is to kill, dismember, and dispose of the victim.

00:06:27 Talks about the tools needed to do the job she wants to do

00:10:19 What would she used to clean up the area?

00:12:00 Talk about Gilgo and Rex Heuermann

00:12:44 Talking about the getaway and getting rid of the remains

00:12:57 To commit the perfect crime she uses a cab as a getaway car, leads to her capture

00:14:39 Joseph Scott Morgan tells story of transporting a head as a young man working in New Orleans with the coroner.

00:15:52 Under no circumstances are you to allow this bot this head out of your sight. 00:16:23 Had to use a cooler with ice to transport the head

00:18:40 Discussion about Taylor Schabusiness case.

00:19:14 The mother of the victim finds his head in bucket

00:20:20 Discussion of the relationship between suspect and victim

00:21:56 Schabusiness told police she didn't remember strangling him, but she remembered liking it.

00:23:16 She told police, you found this part of him, good luck finding the rest

00:25:48 Discussion about the types of knives needed to do what was done to the victim

00:27:46 Talk about the forensics of different types of blades

00:30:47 Joe Scott Morgan talks about the time it takes to dismember a body

00:32:09 Joel Guy Jr, created a game plan for what he was going to do to his parents

00:32:23 Discussion about Joel Guy Jr and why he killed his parents

00:34:18 Joel Guy Jr stabbed his parents to death, then cut them up.

00:35:04 Talk about police interrupted Joel Guy Jr and found his "list" of things to do

00:39:42 Discussion of the medical examiner at the trial

00:40:09 Talk about anti-mortem and post-mortem

00:43:11 Joseph Scott Morgan explains the way a body can be disarticulated

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Live From CrimeCon Las Vegas The Death of Ellen Greenberg "The Best of Body Bags "

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Recorded live in front of a studio audience at CrimeCon in Las Vegas, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan re-examines the injuries to Ellen Greenberg. The teacher and soon-to-be-bride, is found death in her apartment with more than 20 stab wounds, and her death is ruled a suicide.

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The Ransom Note and Non-Kidnapping Murder of JonBenet Ramsey

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

A final look at items brought up in the recent Netflix documentary about JonBenet Ramsey and her death. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about the crime scene with Joe breaking down the mistakes that were made and how they have nothing to do with technology. Also, a question that has never been answered regarding the "ransom" note. What type of "kidnapper" kills the person and leaves a "ransom" note? Who would pay a "ransom" for the "safe return" of a loved one when the "loved one" is already dead and in the house?

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.41 Introduction

02:00.28 No excuses for evidence mistakes

04:54.75 Never Ask Father of missing 6-year-old search the house

10:06.27 The physical things seen in strangling

14:34.80 Why leave the body AND ransom note

19:53.52 Why ask for $118,000?

24:28.50 The reason for the ransom note is dead

29:07.64 JonBenet was beaten, skull was fractured

32:10.35 Conclusion

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Burned To Death After 10 Hours Locked In Storage Unit: The Death of Corrine Abosamra

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

A fire was reported November 7th, 2024, at Broadmoor Self-Storage in Kentwood, Michigan. Firefighters cut the lock off unit 454, and discovered the body of Corinne Abosamra. Morgan Wingeier rented a storage unit at Broadmoor Self-Storage and allowed Corinne Abosamra to live in the unit. On the day of the fire, Wingeier left Abosamra in the unit and locked it with a pad lock on the outside. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss what is known so far about the death of Abosamra and look closely at the evidence to see if it leads to accident or murder.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.41 Introduction

02:00.28 Renting a Storage Unit

04:54.75 At a fire scene, everything looks the same

09:06.27 Would someone rent a storage unit to render down a body

14:34.80 Finding charred remains in the storage unit

19:53.52 Did Morgan Wingeier forget she locked Abosamra in storage unit

24:28.50 Victim was in the unit for 10 hours before fire was seen

29:07.64 Wingeier didn't return to the storage unit

34:10.35 Heat coming off a fire, no escape

39:47.36 Conclusion

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SHOCKING SENTENCE: Possible Parole for Architect of Piketon Massacre

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

This is a story of the Wagner family and the Rhoden family. Jake Wagner and Hanna Rhoden began dating when Hanna was 13 and Jake was 18. Hanna became pregnant with Jake's baby when she was 15. Those who knew Jake Wagner and Hanna Rhoden said that Jake Wagner was very controlling and had been verbally and physically abusive to Hanna. Hanna Rhoden broke up with Jake Wagner and they both dated other people. Hanna had a child with another man and Jake Wagner married another woman, briefly. The Wagner family wanted custody of Sophia and accused Hanna Rhoden of dating men that might sexually assault Sophia. There was no proof this was the case, but it fueled the rage in the Wagner family toward Hanna Rhoden. When the Wagner's tried to force Hanna Rhoden to sign papers to turn custody of Sophia over to Jake Wagner, she refused and posted a message on Facebook that she would “never sign papers ever. They will have to kill me first.” That is when the Wagner family decided to kill Hanna Rhoden, as well as her relatives so that custody would fall to them. Jake Wagner allegedly began a relationship with Hanna Rhoden when she was 13, impregnating her when she was 15 and he was 20. In addition to homicide, he has been charged with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. After she ended the relationship, prosecutors say, he began threatening her.The bodies of the Rhoden family members were first discovered on the morning of April 22, 2016 by Bobby Jo Manley, the ex-sister of Chris Rhoden Sr.There were four locations and eight victims, all killed in one night. The victims were: Hannah Hazel Gilley, 20, Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden, 20, Hanna May Rhoden, 19, Dana Lynn Manley Rhoden, 37, Christopher Don Rhoden Jr., 16, Christopher Don Rhoden Sr., 40, Gary Dwayne Rhoden, 38, and Kenneth Wayne Rhoden, 44.

Pike County Massacre - sentencing

Confessed killer gets life in prison with chance for parole

Angela Wagner - 30 years with possibility of parole (credited with six years and six weeks served)

Jake Wagner sentenced to Life with Possibility of Parole after 32 years

Rita Newcomb sentenced to 5 years of probation and $750 fine

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about some of the decisions that have been made in the case of the Piketon Massacre. Breaking down the crimes of the night, four locations in one night, wiping out generations of one family, moving an infant child next to the bosom of his dead mother so the baby can suckle if he gets hungry. Joe explains each crime scene to help explain what type of planning was required.

Piketon Massacre
Transcript Highlights

00:00.01 Introduction

02:55.22 Sentencing at Piketon

06:05.91 Mother was the Puppetmaster

10:12.49 Not a death penalty case

15:21.13 Hannah was 13 when she began dating Jake

20:01.28 Hannah says "I'm never signing any papers

25:29.20 Mother bought new shoes at Walmart

30:29.13 Angela Wagner hung baskets in kitchen

34:57.12 Piketon Massacre sentencing

40:35.65 Is this really the best outcome

46:06.07 Conclusion

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Top Three Most Downloaded Episodes of "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan" Part Three

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

The top 3 most downloaded episodes of "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan" over the last year:
# 3 SHOCKING Crime Scene Photos Tell New Story About Gypsy Rose
# 2 Missing Mom Murder Trial: Blood Evidence Could Prove She's Not Missing
# 1 Evil Has a Tattoo Face: The Death of Two Women

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about the most downloaded episodes of Body Bags and add some new information and theories to some of the most downloaded episodes of the last year.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.13 Introduction

00:37.20 Top Three Most Downloaded, #3 Gypsy Rose Blanchard

06:01.07 Dee Dee Blanchard, hoarder, claims she and Gypsy Rose are refugees from Katrina

11:14.91 Dee Dee Blanchard was a big woman

13:21.58 Number Two most downloaded show

18:51.02 Early on Jennifer Dulos reported missing

23:20.33 Body of Jennifer Dulos has not been found

28:15.87 Wade Wilson - Tattoo Face

33:40.07 Not Deadpool- Wilson charged with two murders

38:33.79 Wilson Case gets attention because of tattoos

40:38.31 Wilson Dad believed he would kill again

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Top 10 Most Downloaded Episodes of "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan" Part Two

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

The top 10 Countdown of most downloaded episodes of "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan" continues with episodes Six, Five, and Four:

6. Missing 2-years Before Anyone Looked; What Happened to Harmony Montgomery
5. Murder of Suicide? The Death of Jeffrey Epstein
4. The House is Gone; The Idaho Student Murders

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack review each of the shows with a critical eye toward new information as well as taking a closer look at decisions made in the cases.

00:00.51 Introduction

02:45.81 Harmony Montgomery, missing

08:38.57 Harmony missing two years before anyone said anything

11:49.64 Adam Montgomery hits Harmony and kills her

18:38.50 Jeffry Epstein, underage girls from Europe

23:14.67 Epstein and Maxwell - what happened to the girls

28:21.02 Hanging as suicide vs judicial hanging

33:40.07 Why are there two pronounced marks on Epstein neck

38:19.47 Time and location - Tearing down Idaho Student murder house

42:22.67 How important is seeing the actual physical scene of the crime

48:36.71 Is there any downside to leaving house until after trial

52:26.83 Conclusion - Coming up the top three

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Top 10 Most Downloaded Episodes of "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan" Part One

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

January 1, 2025 WednesdayWe start off the new year by taking a look at the top 10 most downloaded shows of the last year. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about the shows and provide updated information and new forensic information that has come out since the episodes were first recorded. This first episode covers from number Ten to number Seven:#10 SHOCKING AUTOPSY: Who or What Killed Noah Presgrove?# 9. The New Epidemic: Fentanyl# 8. Married Couple Missing 3 Weeks, The Torture death of the Josephs# 7. The Monster is Real: Dad's New Girlfriend Kills Baby with Nail Polish Remover."

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.13 Introduction
01:28.03 The death of Noah Presgrove
05:27.26 Description of skull fracture
10:05.70 Moving a body - intent? Was Noah pushed out of vehicle
15:06.89 Fentanyl - not naturally occurring
19:15.88 Babies explore the world with their hands
24:14.86 The Tortue death of the Josephs
29:21.59 Two kettle bells purchased at Walmart
34:03.29 "The Monster is Real: Dad's New Girlfriend Kills Baby with Nail Polish Remover"
39:53.50 Conclusion

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The Mansion Murder Mystery | The Homicide of Dr. Devon Hoover - "The Best Of Body Bags"

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In this episode of the Body Bags, hosts Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack unpack the chilling homicide of famed neurosurgeon Dr. Devon Hoover, who was found in his Detroit mansion. They discuss the details of the murder, the physical evidence, the complexities of the gunshot wounds, the forensics, and theorize about the identity of the murderer and their familiarity with the residence.

Time-codes: 00:00 - Introduction.

01:20 - Dr. Devon Hoover.

02:45 - of Dr. Hoover's grand home and his profession.

05:30 - The demanding path to neurosurgery.

07:40 - Skills required for neurosurgery.

08:10 - Dr. Hoover's personality and devotion to work.

0:00 - Introduction to "crawlspace" in relation to the murder.

12:15 - Discovery of Dr. Hoover's body in the attic crawlspace.

13:00 - Peculiarities in the murder scene.

15:30 - Postmortem changes and body positioning.

16:40 - Importance of postmortem interval in the case.

17:15 - Speculation on potential suspects and motives.

18:55 - Dr. Hoover's attic.

20:00 - Forensic analysis of Dr. Hoover's gunshot wounds and the intimate nature of the crime.

23:20 - Evidence suggesting the perpetrator's familiarity with the house.

26:10 - Detailed impact of a close-range gunshot wound.

28:30 - Examination of the array of forensic tests.

30:30 - Observations indicating the murderer might be known to the victim, such as lack of forced entry.

31:05 - Perpetrator's meticulous body cover-up, suggesting a personal connection.

32:55 - Outro.

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The Body Bags Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde: The "Best of Body Bags"

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:05:00 +0000

Bonnie and Clyde killed at least nine police officers and four civilians during their 21-month crime spree from 1932 to 1934. The couple were also responsible for several Bank robberies, gas stations hold-ups , and burglaries. They weren't very good thieves, as they rarely got away with more than $80. In this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how Bonnie Parker suffered so many bullet holes her body had to be plugged to hold embalming fluid, and Dave Mack will take you behind the scenes in the woods with Frank Hamer and Manny Gault as they brought down the murderous "Bonnie and Clyde".

Transcript Highlights

00:00:10 Introduction of human destruction

00:02:09 Description of Bienville Parish

00:05:24 Description of Bonnie and Clyde car on display

00:08:14 Discussion Bonnie 23, Clyde 25

00:11:15 Talk about Bonnie and Clyde murder young cop

00:15:11 Discussion about State Coroners convention

00:18:05 Discussion about transcribing

00:21:32 Talk about Bonnie and Clyde murdering cops

00:25:57 Discussion of BB Episode about Coroner system

00:28:21 Talk about autopsy of famous people

00:31:41 Discussion of Dr. Wade and others at the autopsy

00:35:00 Discussion of injuries suffered by Bonnie Parker

00:37:42 Conclusion: Bonnie and Clyde meet their end

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First in Recorded History: The Autopsy of Julius Caesar | A Body Bags Special Report: The "Best of Body Bags"

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:27:53 +0000

On March 15th in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, was assassinated by a group of senators who stabbed him 23 times during a Senate meeting.
The senators claimed Caesar's concentration of power threatened the Roman Republic. However, their efforts to restore the Republic failed, and the aftermath led to a civil war and the rise of the Roman Empire. His death also led to the earliest recorded autopsy in history.
In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and special guest co-host Dave Mack discuss the purpose of autopsies, Caesar's life, and leadership, the details of how he was attacked, the injuries sustained, and how this event shaped the course of history.

Show Notes:
0:00 - Intro
1:12 - Background and overview
2:35 - What’s the purpose of an autopsy?
4:05 - Caesar’s life and work as a leader
7:15 - The day of Caesar’s assassination
9:15 - How the attack happened
10:50 - Caesar’s autopsy
13:20 - After someone is stabbed multiple times does blood keep flowing or will it eventually stop after a few hours?
17:10 - Could the doctor have attributed Caesar’s death to blood loss?
20:10 - What was the assassination plan for Caesar? Were there other injuries and what was Caesar's condition afterward?
22:10 - Where was the autopsy done?
23:40 - The start of 3D modeling
25:30 - How this event shaped history
27:05 - Outro

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The Murder of JonBenet Ramsey. Part Two

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Twenty eight years ago today, six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered. The case has remained in the spotlight for nearly three decades and still, no arrest has been made and no suspect has been named. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and what evidence is still available for testing as well as the new documentary on Netflix.

Transcript Highlights

00:02.48 Introduction 28 Years today
03:08.70 Talk about Netflix doc
08:27.79 Anger directed at the parents
12:45.76 DNA Evidence, what happened at scene
15:56.55 Public told of strangulation, not about head trauma
20:06.75 Joe Scott talks about students studying autopsy report
24:31.16 Forensic needs to do DNA profile would have had to be robust at the time
29:13.54 DNA found on the hands of JonBenet
34:58.76 Police at scene have no excuse for what happened
39:11.38 Conclusion

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The Murder of JonBenet Ramsey: Part One

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey the day after Christmas 1996 shocked the nation. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the investigation that was in trouble from the moment the 911 call was made by Patsy Ramsey. Joe Scott also goes deep explaining the shocking injuries suffered by JonBenet and the very specific knot that was used to strangle the little girl. Part One of Two

Transcript Highlights

00:02.48 Introduction
01:58.70 The JonBenet Ramsey Story
04:41.79 The new Bio on Netflix
10:58.76 B-Roll video had a lot to do with media coverage
15:38.55 Girls on stage performing
19:08.75 Meeting John Ramsey at CrimeCon
24:40.16 The death of Patsy Ramsey
28:33.54 The 911 Call
33:32.76 The evaluation at the scene
38:11.38 Description of head injuries
43:26.73 The strangling and destruction of her skull
47:07.45 Ruining the scene with DNA from guests/friends
53:10.26 Conclusion - Dad recovers her daughter, destroying evidence

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The Public Execution of a CEO: The Murder of Brian Thompson Part 2

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:33:38 +0000

In Part One of "The Public Execution of a CEO: The Murder of Brian Thompson" Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discussed the background of the alleged shooter and how the weapon involved would work. In Part Two, Joseph Scott Morgan goes in-depth into the weapon and ammunition used as well as the physical damage that would be done to a person hit with such ammunition. Dave Mack covers what was written in the "notebook" found in Luigi Mangione's backpack when he was arrested as well as "The Manifesto" Mangione is alleged to have written as well as the charges he currently faces.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00.71 Introduction Part Two

00:00:27.62 Hardware used - Ghost Gun

00:04:53.34 Ammunition used

00:09:16.25 Words Written on shells

00:14:12.34 Words written on shells

00:18:59.48 Handwriting analysis

00:23:22.98 Mansion was not a customer of United Healthcare

00:26:10.23 The Notebook and the Manifesto

00:31:12.50 Conclusion

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The Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth "The Best of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan"

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 23:33:06 +0000

This episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan is a look at the death and autopsy of John Wilkes Booth. Booth shot Abraham Lincoln from behind around 10:15 pm April 14, 1865. He died the next morning, April 15, at 7:22 am. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will uncover the track that Booth took as he tried to escape, and finally being shot himself. Joseph Scott Morgan will make you feel like you witnessed the autopsy yourself as he explains, in great detail, the autopsy of John Wilkes Booth.

Transcribe Highlights
00:13.63 Introduction - autopsy of John Wilkes Booth
01:45.79 Discuss Forensic expert is a history fan
05:09.53 Talk about the Booth acting family
08:22.93 Discussion of how Booth wrecked everything
12:47.62.Talk about Booth jumping to stage
18:45.53 Discussion of expectation
22:49.66 Talk about the conspiracy
27:50.24.Discussion of Booth broken leg
32:01.96 Talk about comparing Lincoln to Kennedy
38:40.42 Discussion of Booth not getting help
41:08.80 Talk about getting Booth on boat
48:59.90.Discussion of putting a door on saw horses as a table
50:03.11 Talk about Autopsy in 1800s
52:18.34 Discussion of Booth being wrapped in military blanket
56:27.97 Conclusion, Lincoln wanted the country to heal

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A Shot in the Dark: Investigating Lincoln's Assassination and the Chilling Conspiracy | Part 2 "The Best of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan"

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:15:00 +0000

In part one of this two-part series on Body Bags hosts Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take listeners through the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and its aftermath. They describe the chaos at Ford's Theater, the attending physicians' struggles as they assessed Lincoln's condition with limited medical knowledge and tools, the removal of Lincoln's body, and the irony of increased security after the assassination. They also delve into the autopsy process, highlighting the physicians' extensive experience and the challenges they faced.

Time-codes:

00:20 - Start of show.

01:35 - John Wilkes Booth's actions in the theater.

02:00 - Immediate response to the shooting.

02:35 - Lincoln's condition when the surgeon arrived.

03:15 - Initial confusion among the audience.

04:00 - Booth's calculated timing for the shooting.

05:30 - Surgeon realizes Lincoln's gunshot wound location.

05:55 - Limitations of medical knowledge and tools.

07:40 - Lincoln stops breathing and has dilated pupils.

08:10 - Surgeon removes clot, Lincoln breathes again.

09:20 - Difficulty transporting Lincoln to the White House.

09:55 - Physicians try to locate the lead ball in Lincoln's head.

11:30 - Attempt to drain blood and reduce intracranial pressure.

12:00 - Lincoln's death at 7:30 a.m.

13:50 - Lincoln remains unconscious throughout the ordeal.

16:40 - Removal of Lincoln's body from the boarding house.

17:15 - Absence of security and irony of increased security.

18:00 - Lincoln's tendency to dismiss security.

18:40 - Lincoln's body conveyed to White House for autopsy.

19:55 - Handsaw used to open Lincoln's skull.

21:10 - Delicate nature of dissecting the brain.

22:15 - Autopsy challenges: lack of electricity, reliance on touch.

23:00 - Physicians' extensive experience in dealing with trauma.

29:40 - Modern gunshot wound examination process.

30:30 - Role of x-rays in understanding bullet trajectories.

31:15 - Autopsy confirms nothing could have saved Lincoln.

32:55 - Limitations of 1800s medical treatments.

33:30 - John Wilkes Booth's autopsy.

34:50 - Physician's anger and resentment towards Booth.

35:30 - Booth's body relocation before returning to family.

36:05 - Outro.

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Cold Case Heats Up: Arrest Made in 1969 Murder of Mary Kay Heese

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Mary Kay Heese was 17-years-old when she was murdered and dumped in a ditch in March of 1969. Mary Kay Heese did not go down without a fight, she fought back, but died from multiple stab wounds. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about how the case went cold but the family kept working the case. Year after year. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain what it took to solve a case that was cold for more than half a century, and how 55-years after her lifeless body was found in a ditch, an arrest is made in the murder of Mary Kay Heese.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.35 Introduction - 55 year cold case

04:07.70 The Family keeps looking for answers

10:02.66 Parents have passed, but cousin fought for justice

15:01.01 Finding a hair and fiber evidence

20:07.30 Body found near home

25:05.68 Perp dumped body in ditch

30:03.39 Mary Kay Heese fought back

35:29.16 Two suspects, one commits suicide in 1977

40:06.78 A Suspect is found

44:08.09 Arrest is made, more to come

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The Public Execution of a CEO: The Murder of Brian Thompson

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Luigi Mangione allegedly shot and killed CEO of United Healthcare Brian Thompson on December 4, 2024. The suspect in the shooting is a 26-year-old person of means; smart, educated, and now, possibly a killer. Joseph Scott Morgan breaks down the type of weapon used and how it would function, the ammunition used, as well as the damage it could do to the intended target. Dave Mack tries to fill in the background of the story as it continues to evolve. This is Part One of Two.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00.71 Introduction

00:00:57.91 Growing up spoiled

00:05:28.58 Luigi Mangione manifesto

00:08:55.84 Mangione creating characters on computer

00:12:26.42 Chronic pain in lower back

00:17:38.37 Description of using 3D printed gun

00:24:56.27 Scheduling an event, waiting for victim

00:28:37.77 Suspect and weapons

00:33:23.74 Description of "site picture"

00:38:29.89 Shot and effect on body

00:39:01.33 Conclusion of part one

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The Body Near The Well: The Murder of Shamra Felkel

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Shamra Felkel is last seen in Hartselle, South Carolina, on September 25. On October 7, friends and family report her missing. Shamra Felkel's daughters, Karli Felkel and Kasey Wolfe begin searching right away but say local law enforcement isn't taking the case seriously. 11 weeks after she vanishes into thin air, Kasey Wolfe gets an anonymous tip that leads her to ask a close family friend to search the Ruby Road area near her mother's property. The friend discovers human remains and calls authorities. Deputies respond and rope off the area. Joseph Scott Morgan explains what condition the remains will be in after being buried near a dry well for over two months and what will be learned at autopsy.

Transcript Highlights
00:00:13.06 Introduction
00:04:55.00 We are creatures of habit
00:10:14.37 Graveyard or Cemetery
00:14:40.13 Building a well
00:19:18.58 Who found the body of Shamra Felkel
00:25:00.66 After remains are found....what happens next
00:30:13.69 Investigators haven't announced type of strangulation
00:35:21.26 Charges of murder, kidnapping, obstruction of justice
00:39:05.01 Conclusion

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A Shot in the Dark Investigating Lincoln's Assassination and the Chilling Conspiracy "Best of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan"

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

A Shot in the Dark: Investigating Lincoln's Assassination and the Chilling Conspiracy | Part 1
In part one of this two-part series on Body Bags we delve into the assassination and autopsy of President Abraham Lincoln.
Hosts Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack analyze the character and motivations of John Wilkes Booth, the layout of Ford's Theater, and the negligent behavior of John Parker, assigned to protect the president. They provide a fascinating explanation of the Philadelphia Deringer's firing mechanism, including its unique preloading process and firing sequence as well as going into Booth's meticulous planning, highlighting his knowledge of the play's comedic timing, Lincoln's potential focus on the orchestra pit, and the painstaking preparation involved in using the Deringer. Throughout this captivating episode, listeners uncover the chilling details and lasting impact of one of the most infamous moments in American history.

Time-codes:
00:25 - JoScott’s surprise at visiting presidential assassination locations.
01:30 - Description of Ford's Theater and the assassination scene.
02:20 - Introduction of Lincoln's assassination and autopsy topic.
06:10 - Discussion of access to the president during Lincoln's time.
07:10 - How did Booth gain access to Lincoln's box at Ford's Theater?
08:45 - Lincoln's well-publicized attendance at the theater.
10:35 - Comparison of past and present presidential security measures.
11:10 - John Parker, the inept officer assigned to protect Lincoln.
13:40 - Background on John Wilkes Booth and his Southern cause support.
16:00 - Long-lasting impact of Lincoln's assassination on the country.
18:15 - Specifics of the weapon used by John Wilkes Booth.
21:35 - Importance of caliber and limitations of Booth's weapon.
23:40 - Preloading the Philadelphia Deringer and its hammer mechanism.
24:55 - Comparison of the Deringer's firing sequence to modern weapons.
26:20 - Demonstration of the Deringer's firing sequence and sound.
27:10 - Proximity of Booth to Lincoln when he fired the weapon.
27:50 - Booth's understanding of the play's comedic timing and assassination planning.
29:40 - Discussion of Booth's planning and escape plan.
30:30 - Process of loading the Derringer and importance of seating the bullet properly.
32:15 - Please join us next time for part two!

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The Autopsy Episode - A Life Among the Dead: The Best of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 17:45:50 +0000

When Joseph Scott Morgan was on his first date with his wife Kim she asked him what he did for a living. When he responded by telling her that he worked for the Medical Examiner, essentially the coroner, examining dead bodies and performing autopsies, she looked at him with a puzzled expression…We all have aspects of our lives that are unusual, whether it’s our family, our habits, or our jobs. But when we do these things every day, they become so normal to us that we don’t even question them anymore. In this special episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard go into depth on the touchstone of forensic death investigation: autopsies. They discuss what an autopsy is, who can order one, the different kinds, and how Joe ended up in this unique profession.

Show Notes

:0:00 - Intro

2:07 - What is an autopsy?

4:10 - Who determines when an autopsy is done? Why would you not do one?

7:40 - Can an autopsy be done even if the family doesn’t want it?

9:58 - Gloria Satterfield’s cause of death

12:45 - Are there different kinds of autopsies?

17:55 - Joe’s experience in the autopsy room

18:56 - What is a full autopsy and how long does it take?

26:50 - Can certain autopsies be prioritized?

30:22 - Is an autopsy considered surgery?

34:05 - How did Joseph Scott end up working in a morgue?

38:50 - Seeing bodies in all different kinds of states

41:40 - How does Joe’s family deal with his line of work?

43:45 - Joe’s take on his career

45:21 - Wrap up

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Sliced, Beaten and Strangled: The Death of Melody Hoffman

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The body of Melody Hoffman is discovered on a cold February morning. The person who finds her body calls 911 and describes her beautiful skin, she has all kinds of marks on her back, "like slashes" and her hands are curled in a way they shouldn't have been. She has been left in the freezing cold with nothing on but her underwear. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how it is possible that the 20-year-p; has slashes across her back and has lost a lot of blood, but that isn't what killed her. Dave Mack digs into the different relationships that led to the murder of a 20-year-old woman who just wanted a boyfriend to care about her.

Transcript Highlights

00:01.16 Introduction

04:29.89 Melody Hoffman is missing

09:45.20 Melody might have been pregnant

14:30.41 Buy killing supplies

19:19.24 Picture on phone of Melody beaten, crying, tape over mouth

25:49.51 Murder happened February 18th, very cold

30:46.08 Does weather impact dead body

35:26.44 How much abuse had boyfriend put her through

39:39.14 Melody was strangled to death

47:58.86 Why was body left where it would be found

Conclusion

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The Murder of Teen Esther Gonzalez: Solved

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000

17-year-old Esther Gonzalez is walking from her parents house to her sister's house, and she never arrives. The next day her body is found in a snowpack on the side of the road. She has been raped and bludgeoned to death. The man who finds the body, Randy Williamson, talks to police and is described as argumentative. He ends up taking a polygraph and passes. With the only person of interest eliminated, the case goes cold. Joseph Scott Morgan explains what happens to a body over time and how the evidence gathered by detectives in 1979, made it possible to solve a cold case 44-years later. To learn about the incredible work being done by Othram labs take a look at www.othram.com. Othram: A revolution in Cold Case Resolution.

Transcript Highlight

00:01.65 Introduction
02:58.10 Geography of California
05:00.02 Snow and Surf on the same day
09:56.34 No surveillance cameras, easy dumping ground
15:01.25 Body of Esther found in snowbank
20:00.88 Why was "the finder" arguing with police?
25:18.98 Esther Gonzalez was raped and bludgeoned to death
30:00.11 The "finder" passes a polygraph test
35:44.63 Hairs that co-mingle
40:09.99 Detectives never gave up, kept investigating
44:59.73 Othram got a match to Randy Williamson.

He was the killer. He died in 2014.

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Coroner's Mistress and Her Ex's Dead Body: The Murder Trial

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Dead bodies and romance.....in Horry County South Carolina, Meagan Jackson is a contractor for the county delivering dead bodies to the morgue of the funeral home. She and her longtime boyfriend Gregory Rice have broken up and they are negotiating custody and support for their four children. Deputy Coroner Christopher Dontell is married to a school teacher and they have two children. The deputy Coroner and the woman bringing dead bodies to the morgue strike up a romance. When Gregory Rice goes missing and turns up dead, suspicion falls on his ex, Meagan and her new boyfriend, the very married Deputy Coroner, Christopher Dontell. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain what happens in the world of death investigation and how people can grow close to their coworkers under extreme circumstances. Joseph Scott Morgan will also take a close look at Meagan Jackson and Chris Dontell - did she think Dontell, because of his occupation, would know better how to get rid of a dead body? Dave Mack will help untangle the web of lies as Joseph Scott Morgan explains why Dontell has changed his plea and what will happen when he testifies against the woman who was carrying his child when her ex-boyfriend is found dead.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.50 Introduction

03:29.84 South Carolina has rich Coroner history

05:12.67 Elected Coroner in Horry County

10:03.41 Explaining "Livery" service

14:52.41 Deputy Coroner having affair with woman who delivers bodies

20:11.42 An affair the includes death and getting rid of body

24:25.02 Special training, would a deputy coroner have a better idea how to get rid of a body

29:57.62 Questions of a death investigator

35:05.65 Digital evidence puts suspect at the scene of where body is found

41:08.05 Conclusion - Deputy Coroner cuts a deal and will testify for the state

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The Murdaugh Trial Autopsy Review | Official Findings: The Best of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

We revisit the Murdaugh trial in which South Carolina lawyer, Alex Murdaugh, is currently facing trial for the murder of his wife Maggie, and his son Paul. As the trial continues, we are learning more information about the nature of the crimes and how exactly they played out.In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and special guest co-host Dave Mack discuss the specifics of both Paul and Maggie’s injuries, why the prosecution uses diagrams vs. photographs when showing evidence in court, whether Paul had any defensive wounds, and much more.

Show Notes:

0:00 - Intro1:18 - Background and overview of the case

2:35 - Using diagrams in court vs. photographs

6:05 - Paul Murdaugh’s injuries

11:15 - The second shot to Paul Murdaugh’s head

14:50 - Paul’s face left intact

19:25 - Were there any type of defensive wounds on Paul?

20:30 - Maggie Murdaugh’s injuries

23:30 - Stippling around Maggie’s wounds

26:00 - Shot to the abdomen

29:00 - Was this overkill?

31:00 - Wrap up and outro

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JFK - 61 Years and Autopsy Questions Still Remain: The Best of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

November 22, 1963: John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was shot and killed during a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas.The President is taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital.

By law, Dallas County Coroner Dr. Earl Rose had jurisdiction over the case and should have performed the autopsy. However, against Dr. Earl Rose's protestations, the body of President Kennedy was wrapped in a sheet, placed in a casket with a broken handle, and flown over 1,300 miles away to Washington DC, where 2 naval doctors, who had never conducted a forensic autopsy performed the autopsy on John F. Kennedy.

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they take a close look at the autopsy that was so bad, 60years later questions are still being asked.

Time Code Highlights
00:00:10 Introduction
00:01:21 The ripple effect of the assassination of JFk
00:04:31 The moments following the shooting of JFK in Dealey Plaza
00:06:02 Talk about how autopsy "Standard Procedures" were not followed
00:06:51 Texas state law and jurisdiction over investigation and autopsy
00:07:58 Board Certified Forensic Pathologist Doctor Earl Rose was chief medical examiner for Dallas, Texas at the time and was at Parkland Memorial Hospital
00:09:22 JFK body taken from Dallas to Washington DC for autopsy
00:10:59 Secret Service preparing for President trips.
00:11:36 JFK physical condition after being shot.
00:12:52 Injuries to JFK, at least 2 gunshot wounds.
00:13:31 Tracheotomy that was performed to establish an airway
00:15:04 Dr. Earl Rose and how his experience was dismissed
00:16:23 Dr. Earl Rose KNEW he was looking at a Murder Investigation.
00:17:47 Discussion Dallas County had jurisdiction over the body.
00:19:03 Talk about autopsy of JFK should have taken place in Dallas
00:20:08 Previous Presidential assassination, Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley and their autopsies.
00:22:10 Dr. Earl Rose did the autopsy for Oswald, Officer Tippit, and Jack Ruby.
00:23:36 JFK body being taken to Washington DC
00:25:16 Comparing Bethesda Naval Hospital to Walter Reed Hospital
00:26:04 doctors chosen to perform JFK autopsy
00:28:42 why doctors turned bullet wound into tracheostomy
00:29:55 Presidents body wrapped in sheets. Head wrapped in gauze
00:31:09 JFK clothing, tie changed the trajectory of round.
00:32:58 Other clothing worn during the assassination
00:33:44 "magic bullet" going through JFK and Governor Connally,
00:35:08 Secret Service agents washed interior of Presidential limo.
00:36:03 Talk about crime scenes - bone fragments found and turned in later
00:37:02 Description of President's head, skull came apart in doctors hands.
00:38:04 Discussion of Assessment
00:40:02 Talk about x-rays that were done on body
00:41:58 Description of the Bethesda autopsy suite
00:43:51 Ballistics expert Dr. Pierre Fink, forensic pathologist, came to Bethesda
00:44:53 JFK brain was removed before Dr. Fink arrived
00:46:05 Description of "Brain Loafing".
00:47:22 The autopsy of JFK was not a complete autopsy
00:49:21 Discussion of "family wishes" as it applies to the murder of the president.
00:50:48 Compare autopsy of John F. Kennedy and Robert F Kennedy
00:52:36 Discussion about other pathologists available to do autopsy on JFK
00:55:09 No way to know if other injuries suffered by JFK could have been lethal
00:56:04 Commentary - no excuse for what happened with autopsy of JFK

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Bodies In The Medical School Basement

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In the summer of 1989, a construction crew working in the basement of a building at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta stumbled across thousands of human bones. The acquisition and disposal of the remains has been kept secret.

It happens again in 1994, a crew discovered an old well containing human remains while constructing a new medical sciences building on the campus of the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) at Virginia Commonwealth University. The well is called the Limb Pit.

It happened one more time at Harvard in 1999. During renovations at Harvard’s Holden Chapel in 1999, a worker operating a mini bulldozer stumbled across human remains when his machine broke through a wall into an old well.

Joseph Scott Morgan explains how it's possible to find human bones that have been hacked, cut with a saw, chisel, or knife, and then hidden so the law can't find them.....and it isn't a crime.

Transcript Highlight
00:00.01 Introduction
04:35.58 Resurrection - Grave Robbing 09:40.88 Studying medicine, finding bones
14:08.17 Doctors who have never dissected a body
19:18.35 Bones used by medical schools
23:17.45 Medical college paying grave robbers
28:16.99 Getting rid of bones without getting caught 32:11.18 Doctors had no opportunity to study the human body
38:59.35 The Limb Pit - Chris Baker MCV
40:17.79 Harvard had name for club that dug up bodies
44:00.58 Mass burial of bones, no names
47:27.15 Conclusion

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The Piketon Massacre - The Trial of Billy Wagner

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

The Piketon Massacre happened when 8 members of the Rhoden family were wiped out in one night at four different locations. Billy Wagner, the patriarch of the Wagner family, and the accused leader of the murderous rampage, is finally going to trial next month. With 8 murders and four crime scenes, Joseph Scott Morgan has a lot to explain. He will take you inside the trailers and talk about how forensic evidence was damaged by law enforcement. As in all cases a person is innocent until proven guilty and Billy Wagner continues to plead not guilty to all 22 charges including eight counts of aggravated murder from the execution-style slayings of his son’s ex-girlfriend and seven of her family members in April 2016.

Transcript Highlights

00:02.98 Introduction

02:12.91 The Piketon Massacre

05:32.43 Who Could have pulled off killing 8 people in one night

10:04.49 Killer lays baby next to dead mothers' breast so he wouldn't go hungry

15:02.77 Billy Wagner trial coming up next year

19:53.21 Wagner's in Alaska,, woman escapes in fear

25:02.16 Baby Sophia was not in trailer, she was with grandmother

30:08.95 Billy Wagner had moved away from family

35:09.77 So many oddities in the Piketon Massacre

40:13.85 How will Billy Wagner be defended

42:33:26.Conclusion

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Death of the Missing Kansas Moms:The Autopsy of Veronica Butler

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Joseph Scott Morgan has covered the Missing Kansas Moms story on Body Bags since it began. He continued that coverage with the autopsy report of Jillian Kelley a few weeks ago, and now Joseph Scott Morgan breaks down the 16-page autopsy report of Veronica Butler that begins with the Circumstances of death, then moves into the Assault with a knife, including THIRTY (30) Sharp Force Injuries, defensive wounds, and much more.

Transcript Highlights

00:04.93 Introduction

02:19.20 Life of Veronica Butler ending at age 27

04:27.17 Recovery from addiction issues

09:09.39 Requests to review autopsy reports

14:27.64 Defining "full thickness"

21:53.93 6 defensive injuries on Veronica's right hand

27:58.81 Autopsy report as a life road map

33:31.71 Appears someone was trying to cut her throat

38:09.54 Hemorrhages communicating, happened while alive

41:51.46 Why is Obesity mentioned in report

45:05.53 Conclusion

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Oscar Pistorius - Bladerunner Update - Olympic Hero, Convicted Killer, Janitor

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:37:30 +0000

One year ago, Joseph Scott Morgan explained the death of Reeva Steenkamp at the hands of the "Bladerunner", Oscar Pistorius. One month after the episode dropped, Oscar Pistorius was released from prison on parole in January of 2024. We thought it would be a good time to review the case and see what Pistorius has been doing since his release from prison. Based on his conditions of parole, Pistorius is not allowed to do interviews, but his lawyer, Julian Knight, told People he spent the first four months out of prison getting settled into a quiet life in Pretoria where he is living with his Uncle, Arnold Pistorius. The home is a 24-room Mansion, a fortified compound located with armed guards, electronic defenses, and attack dogs.Although he is not required to wear an electronic monitor, a parole officer checks on him at random hours of the day or night. He is not allowed to drink alcohol or do drugs. He cannot be on social media and is forbidden from contacting the Steenkamp family. A Tabloid headline about Pistorius screamed: From Olympics to Prison to Janitor - and that is somewhat accurate as he is doing some janitorial work. According to his parole paperwork, Pistorius has listed his volunteer work at NG Kerk Waterkloof, the Dutch Reformed Church attended by his uncle. He does light maintenance and janitorial work and quietly attends services. Parishioners told The New York Post that he is serious and doesn’t interact with others.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.96 Introduction

01:00.02 Update on Pistorius out of prison

06:17.82 Explaining the tibia

12:04.25 Pistorius and Steenkamp dated 90 days

19:17.30 Shooting through a door

24:41.68 Shot through hip - loud scream

28:18.94 Pistorius one of the most famous people in the world

32:39.17 Steenkamp bled to death

34:04.17 Pistorius Update

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The New Jersey Mansion Murders, Part Two

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In part two of the New Jersey Mansion Murders, Joseph Scott Morgan explains how investigators determined the fire in the mansion is actually arson to coverup the brutal murders of Keith and his family. The fire at Paul Caneiro's home is quickly determined to be arson and Paul Caneiro is arrested the day after the fire. Paul Caneiro's wife and adult daughters think he is a hero for waking them up and getting them out of the house safely and vow to testify on his behalf. A few days after Paul Caneiro is charged with setting fire to his own home, he is charged with the murder of his brother and Keith Caneiro's family. Prosecutors say Paul Caneiro was motivated by greed. Three days before the killings, Keith Caneiro told his father-in-law, Vlassis Karidis, that Paul had stolen $90,000 from the children's college funds, and that he was planning to cut off the $225,000 salary that Paul drew from a family business. Autopsies show that Keith, Jennifer, and Jesse Caneiro all died instantly, but Sophia lived for 9 hours and died from smoke inhalation. This has led Sophia Caneiro's maternal grandfather, Vlassis Karidis, to file a wrongful death lawsuit against Paul Caneiro. Because Sophia survived her parents, she inherited their estates and died intestate, passing the estates to her grandparents, and Karidis has standing to bring the claim.

Transcribe Highlights

00:02.96 Introduction Part Two, New Jersey Mansion Murders

04:53.02 Shooting adults, stabbing the children, 8 and 11

10:17.82 Keith Caneiro shot in head and lower back

15:06.25 Projectile investigation

20:17.30 Fire started in early morning, not reported until after 12 noon

25:45.68 Fire Hose would go right over a body in the yard if needed

30:28.94 When door opens, fire hit with oxygen

35:04.17 20 different fire companies involved for hours to put out mansion fire

40:15.09 Investigators knew the scene was more than just a fire

47:02.93 Autopsy determines Sophia lived 9 hours, died from smoke inhalation

49:41.57 Conclusion - waiting for trial

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The New Jersey Mansion Murders, Part One

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Paul and Ketih Caneiro are brothers and business partners. They live 10 minutes from one another in New Jersey and on November 20, 2018, both of their homes were on fire. About 5 a.m. the police received a report of a fire burning at 27 Tilton Drive in Ocean Township, Paul Caneiro's home. Arriving on the scene police and fire fighters find Paul, his wife, and two adult daughters , all safe outside the home. In the first hours of the investigation officials determine the fire at Paul Caneiro's home appears to have been intentionally set and gas cans are found on the premises. While the investigation is taking place at Paul Caneiro's home, a fire is reported at the home of Keith Caneiro. While the fire at Paul Caneiro's home consisted of two fires near the perimeter of the home, the fire at Keith Caneiro's home takes 20 fire companies hours to get under control. Investigators quickly discover the fire at Keith Caneiro's mansion was staged to cover up the murder of Keith Caneiro, his wife, Jennifer, and their two young children, Jesse, 11 and Sophia, 8. Keith's body is found in the front yard, dead from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and back. The body of Jennifer Caneiro is found inside the house with a gunshot wound to the head and multiple stab wounds. The bodies of the children are found inside with multiple stab wounds. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain the different scientific disciplines used in solving a murder or multiple murders when fire is used to destroy evidence.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.54 Introduction,

02:00.69 Joe's respect for firefighters

04:55.44 Fire and murders took place in November 2018

10:04.10 Fire started on purpose

15:16.22 DNA expert from New Zealand

21:01.75 A financial motivation to the murders

24:56.51 Paul accused of taking money from college accounts for Keith's children

30:13.51 Data presented in court will be very complex

35:10.18 Fire at Paul Caneiro home, two set in perimeter areas of home

39:59.24 Mansion is not close to neighbors

42:43.90 Keith shot multiple times, no gun found

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SHOCKING! 1978 Double-Homicide SOLVED!

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Nov. 19, 1978The remains of Theresa Marcoux and Mark Harnish were discovered after an officer from the West Springfield Police Department located a 1967 green Dodge pickup truck owned by Harnish, parked in a roadway rest area on Route 5/Riverdale Street. Their bodies were lying by a nearby guardrail." "The officer saw that the driver's side window of the truck was damaged and noticed blood in and around the vehicle," the police post added, stating the victims — who had last been seen alive at approximately 12:30 a.m. that morning when leaving a friends' party — "appeared to have sustained gunshot wounds." No Firearm is found at the scene but investigators do find a fingerprint...the suspects' left thumb print is found. The "latent print" is found in what appeared to be blood on the passenger-side vent window.....but no match is found and the case goes cold. Joseph Scott Morgan breaks down fingerprints and how they are of no use if you don't have something to compare it to. Joe will also show how the suspect almost got away with a double homicide.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

04:04.70 Changing from analog to digital

05:30.85 History of fingerprinting

10:04.68 Truth about fingerprints

15:15.96 A print on the scene

19:26.74 Old Truck with bullet could be old

24:34.49 There was an "ear witness"

29:17.43 Blood and drag marks

35:03.19 Was glass embedded in the bodies

40:01.98 A match

42:45.74 Conclusion - arrest

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The Mother Goose Land Murder

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

When a body is found in a trashcan by workers of the Canton Parks Department, it doesn't matter that the park is called City Field Park. For decades City Field Park was known as "Mother Goose Land" so when the workers call 911 to report a dead body in a trashcan, they tell 911 to send help to Mother Goose Land. Joseph Scott Morgan will turn the pages of his own storybook to find out how a simple "wellness check" turns so evil, so fast. How did a 24-year-old woman wind up dead and thrown away like garbage and who is responsible for such a horrible murder.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

05:02.22 Joe relives childhood in New Orleans

10:00.21 Mother Goose Land and a body in the trashcan

15:09.92 Making a welfare check, door is open, nobody is home

20:21.00 After getting search warrant, deputies proceed into apartment, signs of bloody fight

25:09.76 Workers find body and call 911

30:10.14 Sean Goe cut holes in Raychel's car tires

34:56.46 Raychel's body wrapped in plastic

40:01.86 Raychel has 10 specific blunt force injuries, one from hammer

45:02.88 Raychel died from blunt force trauma
Conclusion - Sean Got convicted in her death

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Body of Missing Mom Found Wrapped In Sheet: Who Killed Madeline Kingsbury

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Madeline Jane Kingsbury, 26, and Adam Fravel, 29, are no longer a couple but they are still living together while Kingsbury looks for a place to live. Kingsbury and Fravel take their two children, ages 5 and 2, to daycare on March 31, around 8am and return home at 8:15am. Madeline Kingsbury is never seen leaving the house, but she mysteriously vanishes. Just over two months later, on June 7, 2023, the remains of Madeline Kingsbury are found near property owned by the parents of Adam Fravel. Joseph Scott Morgan takes a look at the case and determines what caused the death of a 26-year-old mother of two whose remains have been left to decompose for over two months.

Transcript Highlights

00:10.14 Introduction

05:00.51 Madeline Kingsbury - vanishes after dropping children off at daycare

10:02.20 Madeline and Adam Fravel are breaking-up but still living together

15:02.91 Investigators build a timeline starting with March 31, 2023

20:02.78 Population density of Winona, farming communities, big search area

25:06.37 Early into investigation police said her disappearance is involuntary

30:30.69 Body found obscured in a culvert

35:20.79 Madeline's body wrapped in fitted sheet matching other sheeting used in her home

40:01.77 Cause of death - homicidal violence

43:03.24 Conclusion

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Shocking Details! Kansas Moms Update: AUTOPSY OF JILLIAN KELLEY

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Jillian Kelley, 39, and Veronica Butler, 27, disappeared in late March while on a trip from Hugoton, Kansas, to pick up Butler’s children. Their abandoned car was found 3-miles from their intended location and there are signs of struggle near and in the vehicle. On April 14, nearly two weeks after they went missing, investigators discovered their bodies sealed inside a freezer and buried under concrete in a remote area of a leased field. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain the details of Jillian Kelley's autopsy, what it is like to find two bodies in one location, buried together, and what new information is known after going over the autopsy report.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:11.31. Introduction - update Kansas Moms

00:01:31.84 Jillian Kelley Autopsy

00:03:18.70 Explanation of custody arrangements

00:06:47.31 Autopsy room

00:11:28.26 Freezer with bodies inside dropped into a hole that is 10 feet deep

00:16:12.44 Looking at the tracks around the area where freezer was buried

00:21:31.67 Opening the freezer in the lab

00:26:29.62 Know idea of what type of evidence will be recovered

00:31:30.98 Veronica Butler Autopsy expected later, Jillian Kelley Autopsy now

00:36:02.75 Veronica Butler body on top of Kelley. Bodies removed

00:41:04.70.Kelley has defensive wounds, grabbed blade of knife with her hand

00:46:03.01 Difficult to determine the order of when injuries occurred

00:51:02.87 Injury with hemorrhage

00:54:54.03 Conclusion: another update when Veronica Butler autopsy released

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Beaten, Strangled, Dragged Behind a Car: Who Killed Melonie White?

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

On a hot August day in the Nevada desert, two hikers find the body of a young woman about 20 miles east of Las Vegas near the Gypsum Wash in Clark County. The next day, August 28, the Clark County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 27-year-old Melonie White. Her death is listed as homicide due to strangulation and blunt force trauma to the head and police say she was also dragged behind a car before her body was left in the desert. Melonie and her infant son moved to Las Vegas with her boyfriend four months earlier from Phoenix, Arizona. But the boyfriend doesn't get a job and leaves Melonie alone with her baby in Las Vegas. Police investigate the case but fail to develope a viable suspect and the case turns cold. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how the case that went unsolved for 30 years has finally been solved with DNA, gentic genealogy, and Othram.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction - First trip to Las Vegas

02:21.07 Death of Melonie White, 30 year mystery

05:06.81 Melonie White beaten, strangled, dragged by car into desert

10:12.12 Brothers report Melonie missing

16:26.41 Police say Melonie was tied to back of car and dragged

21:11.46 Las Vegas is an Oasis surrounded by nothingness

26:05.98 Joe describes other evidence needed

31:22.50 No Lack of trauma

35:19.83. Very personal attack

40:16.59 Describing solving cold case

41:34.76 Genetic Genealogy solves murder

44:27.92 Conclusion: Case solved after 30 years

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Stabbed, Set on Fire as They Slept: The Bermudez Family Murders

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Sara Bermudez, 38, and her three children, Madison, 8, James, 6, and Michael, 2, are viciously attacked in the middle of the night while they sleep.

The murderer Sexually assaults Sara and her 8-year-old daughter, with a knife and stabs the family to death before setting them on fire. Sara's father finds the carnage and calls for Help. Investigators catch a break in that the killer tried to use diesel to fuel the fire but it burned itself out before totally destroying all the evidence.

Joseph Scott Morgan is going to take you inside the master bedroom and explain how investigators find a suspect from a portion of body fluid left behind at the scene. And the suspect isn't just close to the family, he is family.

Transcript Highlights
00:00.96 Introduction - chewing and identity
04:20.45 Somebody breaks into a home in the middle of the night Slaughters the mom, daughter, two boys
09:20.18 Family murdered and set on fire
14:12.60 Disturbing element to the case
18:12.07 Setting up a line to prevent contamination
22:57.18 Evidence of sexual assault
28:07.64 Knife used in sexual attack
32:56.90 Blood stains found on walls, carpet, lamp, other items
37:12.63 Finding blood in the fire
42:00.92 Mother defended her children
44:58.66 Conclusion

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The Burn Pile Murder: The Death of Gary Farris

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

How does a 130 pound, 58-year-old woman, put her 6'3", 300 pound husband on a burn pile?

When law enforcement was called to a farm outside of Atlanta, they were told a body was found burned up in a burn pile. Taking a quick look around, the body is burned beyond recognition, but it is probably 58-year-old Gary Farris. He and his wife Melody live on the 10-acre farm. Gary Farris is a big man, 6 foot 3 inches tall, 300 pounds, it looks like he might have had a heart attack and fallen into the burn pile, dead. His body is burned to the bone and he is identified by dental records. But before this death can be written up as a natural death, a bullet is found lodged in one of his ribs! Joseph Scott Morgan will unpack what it's like to investigate a death that starts in a burn pile and Dave Mack will share how investigators put together a case that ends up with Gary Farris wife, Melody, convicted for his murder.

Transcript Highlights
00:00.47 Introduction - moving heavy weight

04:31.17 How to move 300 pounds of dead weight

09:45.12 What happens to a body when it is burned

14:06.78 Melody Farris burns body of husband

19:01.72 Can't get a height on a body that's been burned

25:52.49 Collecting body from burned area

30:37.21 How big is a bullet?

34:34.87 What was used to start fire?

39:29.36 Smell of Citronella at burn pit

42:02.85 Conclusion

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"The Nose Job Murder"- 6 Shots To The Face in Self-Defense?

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Shayna Hubers calls 911 from Ryan Poston's condo in Highland Heights, Kentucky, and tells dispatch "I killed my boyfriend in self-defense". Hubers tells police Ryan Poston had been beating her all day long, tossing her around like a rag doll, and when he pulled out his gun, she grabbed it and shot him in the face. Police read Shayna Hubers her "Miranda" rights, and Hubers asks for a lawyer. Even though Shayna Hubers has just been told she "has the right to remain silent" she lacks the ability, and tells investigators that she shot him twice in the face, then, as he was twitching, she said she thought he was going to die anyway or his face would be really deformed so she shot him 4 more times to make sure he was dead. Shayna Hubers tells police "I gave him the nose job he always wanted." Joseph Scott Morgan explains how the crime scene and Ryan Poston's clothes tell a different story than the one Shayna Hubers is telling and Dave Mack digs into the background of an 18-month relationship that ended in the murder of a man who seemed to be everyone's favorite person.

Transcribe Highlights

00:03.40 Introduction - Rhinoplasty

04:55.81 Hammers, Chisels, and black eyes

09:27.14 Hubers gave boyfriend the "nose job he always wanted

14:58.88 Shayna Hubers and Jody Arias

20:15.42 What happened when Ryan Poston was murdered

25:04.98 True case of domestic abuse

30:20.01 Difference in bullet size

35:01.84 Stippling present on Ryan Poston

39:38.81 Hubers claims of abuse unfounded

44:21.70 Blood on shirt and pants indicates Poston seated

48:14.50 Conclusion

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Skull of Girl, 17, Found in Wall: COLD CASE SOLVED

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

James Skinner begins doing some work inside his home outside of Chicago when he finds a human skull stuffed in a wall! Not wanting to be accused of a murder, Skinner calls police and they investigate as far as they can in 1978, and after identifying the skull as human, the case goes cold and police send the skull to the Batavia Depot Museum for storage. The skull was forgotten until March of 2021 when supervisors at the museum discovered a box with the skull inside. Joseph Scott Morgan will take you through the investigation that identified the skull and Dave Mack will tell the backstory of the 17-year-old girl, Esther Ann Granger, who died in 1866 and how did her skull end up inside the wall of a home outside of Chicago. A cold case solved with Othram Labs.

00:00:04.46 Introduction

00:04:09.88 A Human skull found inside a wall

00:10:20.41 Explaining what happens to bones that are protected from elements

00:14:14.68 Joe talks anthropology

00:19:09.14 Other than bones, a Bonet was discovered with skull

00:24:31.45 Discussion of Dr. Clyde Snow and his work

00:30:10.59 Age of bones determination

00:34:04.70 Othram Labs identifies a living relative

00:40:36.81 Esther Granger identified, died during childbirth

00:42:36.56 Conclusion - Othram Labs www.dnasolves.com

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Death of Innocence: The Murders of Abby, 13 and Libby, 14

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Delphi Murder Trial: What REALLY Happened to Libby and Abby
Body Bags Delphi Murders Part 2

Libby German and Abby Williams vanished from a public park area in broad daylight on February 13. Witnesses were all around, but nobody saw what happened to the girls. The girls were on the High Bridge at 2:13 pm taking pictures and posting them online. By 3:15 Libby isn't answering her phone and nobody can find the girls. Police are called early but Libby and Abby are nowhere to be found. The bodies of Libby and Abby are found on February 14. They were murdered. Joseph Scott Morgan has been involved in the case since it began and has met with Family members but waited until some of the forensic information was available so he could break it down and explain what the science tells us about the deaths of Libby German and Abby Williams

Transcript Highlights
00:00:00.89 INTRODUCTION: Delphi Murder Trial PART TWO

00:02:00.29 Delphi Case-specifics of the box cutter

00:04:19.95 Blood four feet up from the ground

00:10:15.62 Recording Bridge Guy

00:15:10.56 Law Enforcement knows evil is in the area

00:20:16.14 Other suspects, Keegan Kline

00:25:11.54 Describing the bodies

00:30:10.84 Libby was outgoing, Abby was quiet

00:35:02.39 How could one person control both girls

00:40:20.38 Discussion of the unfired bullet

00:45:00.12 Conclusion Trial is ongoing

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Liam Payne SHOCKER! Suicide? Murder? Accident?

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Liam Payne became a huge star as a member of One Direction and he has
been very public about his struggles with alcohol and depression. He recent
death shocked millions of fans around the world. Joseph Scott Morgan takes
a close-up look at "Pink Cocaine" and other drugs rumored to be in Liam Payne's
Hotel room and what really happened in the moments before Liam Payne plunged to his death from his hotel balcony.

Transcript Highlights
00:14.53 Introduction - celebrity deaths

03:02.27 The death of Liam Payne

05:06.76 Living Recovery

10:02.36 Why do musicians have issues

14:08.85 Pink Cocaine - New?

20:15.60 Walter White - Blue Meth

24:58.34 Liam Payne talked about his life with alcohol

29:24.53 Autopsy

34:35.74 Hotel was warned about a guest and balcony

39:13.93 Looking for security cameras

43:28.79 Was his death witnessed?

47:48.18 Conclusion - Dial 988

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Delphi Murder Trial: What REALLY Happened to Libby and Abby

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

00:00:00.89 INTRODUCTION: Delphi Murder Trial

00:02:36.29 Delphi Case - getting to know Libby's grandparents

00:07:19.95 Who knows about a "snow day" "teacher day"

00:12:15.62 By 5pm Libby and Abby are missing

00:17:10.56 Libby and Abby not dressed for running off

00:22:16.14 Elderly gentleman finds the girls, turns his back, waits for police

00:27:21.54 Trial underway: More info available

00:32:10.84 The Reason a large crime scene is created

00:37:02.39 Libby's shirt found tossed in tree

00:40:20.38 Trial is ongoing, this is the first show on Delphi
There will be more shows coming up

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Murder/Suicide of Mom and Baby Is REALLY DOUBLE HOMICIDE

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Anthony Maggio has two children with his fiancé and has another child with his girlfriend. After a discussion about child support,

Ashtin Eaton is found dead on her kitchen floor by her 11-year-old daughter. Her 14-month old daughter Hazel is found smothered to death on her bed. What looks like a possible murder suicide turns out to be a double homicide. On this episode of Body Bags,

Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how investigators knew in the first few minutes that Ashtin Eaton did not kill her baby and commit suicide, and Dave Mack will break down the family dynamic that Anthony Maggio created, then destroyed.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00:08.88 Introduction - Jury Duty

00:05:01.57 Anthony Maggio is engaged and has a girlfriend

00:09:52.16 Maggio's girlfriend and daughter are both killed

00:15:23.08 The "Finder" is 11-year-old daughter of girlfriend

00:19:57.83 Daughter sees purple discoloration on face and injury to left arm

00:25:13.33 Box cutter creates the injury on the victim

00:30:48.67 Smothering is an action that takes place

00:35:04.18 Reports mentions no sexual assault

00:40:17.40 Suicide by cutting wrist would not cause head to turn purple

00:41:45.79 Conclusion - The man called for jury duty passes out

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Dustin Kjersem: Dead by Bear?

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

A Montana man, Dustin Kjersem, sets off on a camping trip. When he doesn't meet up with his friend at an appointed time and location the friend goes looking for him. When the friend makes it to Dustin, he calls 911 and reports his friend is dead from a Bear Attack! Joseph Scott Morgan explains how experts determine the shocking attack that caused the death of Dustin Kjersem was not done by a bear, it was someone swinging some type of weapon in a "chopping" motion.

Transcript Highlights
00:20.21 Introduction

02:00.71 Savage Death

04:56.01 Joe talking about Bear story

09:38.49 Victim is a "Man's Man"

15:01.06 The "Finder" and the "victim" both experienced
No sign of bear activity

19:48.73 Injuries so shocking it must be a Bear Attack

25:13.58 A Bear would tear down tent in an attack

30:12.97 A Bear is constantly looking for food

34:27.69 Weapon like a hatchet

39:45.60 Expect fractured, fragmented bone

43:22.39 Chopping motion would cause blood spatter

47:25.54 Conclusion - not a bear attack

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Released? Judge Wants Michael Jordan's Father's Freed

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The murder of Michael Jordan's father, James Jordan, was a very sad story that led to Michael Jordan retiring from Basketball in 1993. In 1996 Daniel Green was convicted for the murder based on the testimony of Larry Demery who took a plea deal and testified against his childhood friend, Green. Green was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. 28 years later, the judge who sentenced Green to prison for life believes he was wrong, and wants to help get Daniel Green out of prison. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how James Jordan ended up cremated as a an unidentified homicide victim "John Doe" in South Carolina, and Dave Mack look behind the headlines to find out what really happened when the father of the most popular man on the planet vanished into thin air.

Transcript Highlights

00:26.31 Introduction - Being a Dad

04:14.50 James Jordan, father of Michael Jordan

09:11.94 James Jordan is missing, July 23, 1993

14:04.27 Using a swamp to get rid of evidence

19:01.45 Condition of James Jordan's body

23:10.14 Identifying a body. Jordan identified with dental records

27:23.88 James Jordan's body cremated as a "John Doe". Head and hands removed, kept for identification

32:36.18 Post-Mortem death investigation. Death was from gunshot wound to chest

37:01.94 County did not have cooler to store body

41:13.25 Car is found stripped down and stashed in the woods

46:00.01 Judge wants Daniel Green released, says evidence didn't support conviction

49:57.53 Blood evidence found in backseat

50:21.30 Conclusion

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A Tooth Tells the Story: The Disappearance of Crystal Rasch

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Crystal Rasch is missing and her husband is using her bank card to purchase cleaning supplies. He also fails to report his estranged wife missing. Joseph Scott Morgan explains the cleaning materials used as well as the type of experts that have to be brought in when investigators suspect a victim has been cremated in a backyard burn pile. Dave Mack will help uncover the relationship that left Crystal Rasch identified by a single tooth and her husband in jail. The trial has yet to happen but this is the first part of the story of Crystal and Zachariah Rasch.

Transcribe Highlights
00:13.30 Introduction - back from London

01:00.71 Strangers in London tell Joe to watch for "pickpockets"

05:03.49 The married couple had separate bank accounts

09:55.96 Working a case from back to front

15:08.97 CCTV Records coupled with receipts from purchases

20:29.75 Wife missing, husband admits spending her money with her card

25:57.18 List of searches done on phone, gunshot wound to head vs chest

29:51.13 Search warrant explanation

35:07.58 Evidence found in a car, what to take out

39:31.91 Relationships between law enforcement and experts

44:02.09 Investigators find a tooth

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Quinton Simon, 20-Months Old, Vanishes From His Bed Before Morning

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Quinton Simon is just 20-months old when he vanishes from his home. His mother and her boyfriend claim they Woke up, the front door was ajar, and Quinton was gone. Searches are conducted, the mother's story is vetted. Eight days into his disappearance, law enforcement announces they do not expect to find Quinton alive and his mother,Leilani Simon, is a suspect. Joseph Scott Morgan goes deep into the investigation, explaining what it is like to look for a child.What do searchers hope to find in a landfill and what can they expect to find. Joe Scott explainsDave Mack will fill in the background on all of the adults involved as this case continues to move through the system.Will there ever be justice for Quinton Simon?

Transcript Highlights

00:00.01. Introduction - Liars

01:20.05 The death of Quinton Simon

05:08.07 Detective says within every lie is a nugget of truth

10:07.10. Story about someone coming into house makes no sense

15:35.82. Talking about death investigations of children

20:21.01. Looking for a child, close look. Finding Quinton, alive.

26:08.66 Perpetrator will take everything wrapped around victim

31:18.61. Garbage trucks push down on the waste, compressing

36:39.54 In a landfill, everything looks the same

40:26.66 Dealing with skeletal remains, what will you find?

45:04:13 Conclusion - Mom and Grandma drinking in bar while people are looking for Quinton

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Murder In The Midday Sun: 1982 ColdCase SOLVED After 42-YEARS

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In April of 1982, Velma Nesset was attacked while she walked to work. When the 64-year-old woman didn't arrive at her job in the Permian Mall in Odessa, Texas, co-workers knew something was terribly wrong. Velma Nesset is a reliable, well-liked employee and co-workers, friends, and family begin searching immediately. Police are contacted and a missing person report is filed. Hours after she should have arrived at work, the partially nude body of Velma Nesset is found in a drainage culvert. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain what took place in the investigation from the moment her body was found all the way through more than 20 years of investigation. Dave Mack helps explain how a suspect who confessed to the murder was acquitted in a jury trial a year after the murder, and how a very cold case became very hot - 20 years after the murder.

Transcribe Highlights
00:29.66 Introduction - walking for fun
01:45.05 Velma Nesset, 64, walks to and from work
04:55.58 You can tell a lot about the suspect by how they treat the dead
09:06.25 Being stabbed or choked is intimate 14:40.57 Velma Nesset was stashed in a culvert 18:44.62 The suspect grabbed Velma Nesset in broad daylight
21:23.40 Blood would be everywhere, especially on the suspect
25:28.52 In 1982, DNA was not part of the solution for crimes
29:21.02 Description of evidence that would be gathered from body
34:23.78 Texas has a program to test old sexual assault kits
38:07.00 Comparing DNA to unsolved cases
43:32.59 Cold Case Murder solved with genetic genealogy

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Nancy Grace and Joseph Scott Morgan: One-On-One

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Nancy Grace joins Joseph Scott Morgan to talk about their years working together in front of the camera as well as their time BEFORE they were both on TV. This is the first episode to be recorded in the brand new facility at Jacksonville State University, where Joseph Scott Morgan is the Distinguished Scholar of Applied Forensics. Nancy Grace talks with Joe about Chris Watts, Ellen Greenberg, and the most recent events in the Scott Peterson case. Recorded Live at JSU on October 9, 2024

00:57.81 INTRODUCTION

02:33.81 When did Nancy Grace and Joseph Scott Morgan meet?

05:08.13 Talking about working with Nancy Grace on HLN

10:16.87 Nancy talks about victim families. Kaylee Goncalves in particular

15:07.06 What is the biggest need for prosecutors from Forensics, be prepared

20:26.83 Talking about people coming from rural areas and metro areas

25:55.57 Processing an outdoor scene

30:19.17 The importance of the right time of death

35:42.26 Talking about Ellen Greenberg case.

40:24.33 Scott Peterson and the new testing of duct tape

45:19.91 Training Evidence custodian and the chain of evidence

50:16.21 Multiple areas of Forensics

52:47.16 Conclusion - Thanks to Nancy Grace

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The Missing Daughter's Scooter: The Death of Luna

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Shortly before 11 pm on a Sunday night, Annette Jackson calls the Calhoun County Sheriff's office to report her daughter missing. Living in the town of Farnhamville with a population of just 400 people, Annette Jackson and another daughter set out on foot to see if they can find Luna. As they are walking, calling out for Luna, they come upon a man, Nathaniel Bevers-McGivney, who appears to be covered in blood and he is in possession of Luna's scooter and other personal effects. When Police find Bevers-McGiveney, they read him his Miranda Rights and he immediately asks for a lawyer. Questioning ends before finding out where Luna is. Joseph Scott Morgan will dig into the forensic evidence to identify what could have happened to the teen as well as where it happened.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00.00 Introduction

00:04:03.54 Mom reports daughter, 17, missing, starts looking

00:08:04.52 Mom sees a man, appearing to be covered in blood, with Luna's scooter

00:12:19.82 Description of passive action, preventing finding of body

00:17:45.25 Location of body

00:22:15.61 Is there an attempt to obscure who Luna was?

00:27:01.48 How did perpetrator know about location to hide body

00:32:18.54 Was this a sexual assault gone "bad"?

00:36:40.66 Very Personal, cutting of a throat is intimate

00:40:20.04 Prosecutor possibly seeking oversight due to size of community

00:42:43.14 Conclusion, will continue to update

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The Children in the Basement: Suicide or Murder?

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Lisa Snyder calls 911 after discovering her 8-year-old son Connor and 4-year-old daughter, Brinley, hanging in the basement. When EMTs arrive, the children are still hanging....and still ALIVE. Today on Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will share his personal experiences with hangings and explains what is to be learned from the scene as Dave Mack takes a look what the mother claims and what the facts of the case prove. Murder or Suicide, the deaths of Conner and Brinley Snyder.

Transcript Highlights

00:20.99 Introduction

01:39.59 Two Children found hanging in basement

04:19.14 Suicidal ideation with vocalization

09:37.34 Discussion of death by hanging

14:59.93 Children were hanging but still alive

19:49.57 Not an accident

24:50.58 8-year-old Connor has dexterity issues

29:02.38 Children fully aware of what was happening to them

33:28.72 Description of what would have taken place if Snyder is telling the truth

38:24.73 Struggling with issues Crisis line 988

39:05.42 Conclusion

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Dead On Roadside: The Murder Of Amber Berbiglia

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On a Friday afternoon in North Myrtle Beach a 911 call comes in about a person apparently injured on the side of the road under an overpass. By the time help arrives, the victim is dead and the person that called 911 has vanished. No eyewitnesses but lots of information. The victim appears to have been shot in the face, her car is still running, her phone is inches away from her fingers and is working as there are messages and email chimes going off. The woman's purse with cash is inside the car, her name is Amber Berbiglia, 23-years-old. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how the first impression that Amber was shot in the face with a gun turns out to be wrong and Dave Mack will breakdown the timeline on a murder that happened on a sunny afternoon near the beach that has gone as cold as a winter snow storm.

00:00 Introduction

02:06 Amber Berbiglia Unsolved murder

05:05 How paying a bill in person plays into the story

09:20 Encampents under overpasses

15:11 Woman laid out dead on side of road

19:28 Amber's Cell Phone used up until

2:3024:30 What made Amber stop her vehicle

28:51 Wound so bad it was assumed to be gunshot wound

33:23 First Responder would not see the bones underneath

36:25 Whoever called 911 did not wait for help to arrive

41:49 Conclusion - Horry County, South Carolina still asking for tips

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Kouri Richins To Stand Trial For MURDER of Husband Eric

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

After Judge Richard Mrazik ruled that there was probable cause to try Kouri Richins for aggravated murder and aggravated attempted murder and other charges, Joseph Scott Morgan decides to take a deeper look at the case against Kouri Richins. The Prosecution claims Kouri Richins tried to kill her husband Eric on Valentines day using a sandwich as the delivery method for the deadly fentanyl. But when Eric felt the effects, he put down the food and the attempt on his life falls short. After the failed attempt, Kouri decides to try again, this time with more fentanyl and a different delivery method, the "Moscow Mule." And this time Eric Richins dies. Kouri Richins defense team will certainly have answers for most of the charges against her and that is for the jury to decide. What is not in dispute is that Eric Richins died from Fentanyl, and that is what Joseph Scott Morgan is talking about on this episode of Body Bags.

Transcript Highlights

00:20 Introduction

02:30 The "Moscow Mule" delivery method

05:20 Talking about comparing drug strength to Morphine

08:00 Fentanyl is applied to other drugs as a "sales pitch"

11:34 Indicators of trauma15:04 Congestive heart failure

20:05 Autopsy Reports talking about odors

23:49 Fentanyl comparison to size of penny

27:50 Adding Fentanyl to other drugs for bigger "kick"

31:36 Update of the case: Kouri Richins left forensic bread crumbs

34:25 Using direct injection into heart

36:30 Conclusion: timeline will be powerful at trial

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BODY BAGS "LIVE" AT CRIMECON LONDON 2024

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan Recorded in Front of a "LIVE" audience at CrimeCon London, 2024. Joseph Scott Morgan is joined by Jo Millington. Jo Millington is a Forensic Scientist and has been using science to help solve major crimes for over 25 years. She is a renowned specialist in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA) and delivers a range of training courses on the subject to professionals and true crime fans, including online and internationally.

Transcript Highlights

00:00. Introduction

05:00 Discussing training in forensics

09:35 Blood Spatter analysis

15:00 Correcting miscarriage of justice

19:00 Different methods in the UK

24:00 Discussion of velocity patterns

30:00 Identifying features in blood

35:00 conclusion

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Where is Ana Walshe? Lead Investigator Not Testifying at Trial

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Ana Walshe disappears in the first week of 2023. Her husband claims she caught a ride share to Logan Airport before flying to Washington DC. Ana Walshe never boarded the flight and has been missing ever since. Today on Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan talks about how investigators look through garbage at a landfill, and what is expected from the crime lab report at the next hearing in October.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00:37 Introduction - DNA Lab results

00:01:46 Case goes quiet

00:03:46 Karen Read Case trooper also involved in Walshe

00:06:49 Victim allegedly dismembered, nothing found but blood

00:10:54 Blood has to be verified, it isn't automatic

00:13:30 Discussion of decay in different environments

00:16:48 Investigators found very small amount of blood

00:19:42 Photographic evidence of Brian Walshe

00:22:32 Biological evidence is very fragile

00:25:32 Difficult to imagine what a perp is going to do

00:28:37 Body Parts in a landfill

00:32:02 Conclusion: Lab results coming in October

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Murder or Self Defense: Shocking New Info - Only Fans Model Covered in Blood

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00 Introduction of case - why would you throw your only weapon?

00:02:00 A single stab wound by a thrown knife

00:06:37 Courtney Clenney and boyfriend fought

00:10:56 Funny stuff about throwing knives

00:15:26 911 call, victim says "I'm going to die"

00:19:43 Clenney claims she through kitchen knife from 10 feet away

00:24:16 Discussion of laptop, text messages, email

00:28:26 The Love of Money

00:30:55 Courtney Clenney, drunk, approaches teen in parents neighborhood

00:33:23 Conclusion – portent of things to come

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Harmony Montgomery Still Missing: Mom Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against New Hampshire

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Harmony Montgomery was 5 years old when she was last seen in December of 2019, but she is not reported missing for two years. When police track down Adam Montgomery and ask about Harmony, he tells them Harmony is with her mother in Florida. Police inform him that Crystal Sorey, Harmony's mother is the one who asked for them to check on Harmony, Adam Montgomery doesn't cooperate, but the media catches on to the story and pressure is brought to find the special needs girl with the beautiful smile. To this day, Harmony Montgomery is still missing. A judge declared Harmony dead in March 2024, clearing the way for Harmony's mother, Crystal Sorey to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the state of New Hampshire alleging systemic failures in the state's child protection system. The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and answers from the state of New Hampshire surrounding Harmony's disappearance and death.

Adam Montgomery was sentenced to 56 years to life in prison for the murder of Harmony Montgomery as well as second-degree assault, witness tampering, falsifying physical evidence, and abuse of a corpse.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction - update Harmony Montgomery case
02:39.79 Crystal Sorey, Harmony's mother, files lawsuit against New Hampshire
05:00.76 Family called about abuse, nothing was done
09:03.23 Judge declared Harmony dead, body still not found
14:04.73 Adam Montgomery beats Harmony in back seat of car
18:57.46 Family told social services, Adam blackened her eye
24:28.68 Description of Harmony dying in backseat of car
27:46.64 Kayla Montgomery told police about beating in car
32:42.38 Conclusion - Hope someone listens

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More Evidence In The Execution of Jared Bridegan

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

More evidence has come out in the case of the shooting death of Jared Bridegan. There is now more evidence with the tire found in the road and other tires found at a suspects house and Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how all the numbers actually mean something and can become very compelling evidence.

00:00 Introduction

02:45 Bridegan executed at close range

07:37 Sharing custody of children

11:42 Bridegan shot twice on left side

16:36 Numbers on tires mean something

21:53 multiple gunshots heard by witnesses

25:53 Wound Tracking

30:44 Bridegan injuries were not survivable

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The Smell of Death, Part Two

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

After response to the Body Bags episode about decomposition called "The Smell Of Death", Joseph Scott Morgan realized he left our a couple things that are very important in the world of decomposition whether out in the field trying to solve a homicide, or in the cottage of a loved one who dies of old age in their favorite chair, bodies will decompose. And the rate of decomposition is dependent on many factors. Joseph Scott Morgan takes a close up look at decomposition and what it tells investigators who are looking for answers

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:23 Explaining skin slippage

00:05:27 Wearing skin like a glove

00:09:34 Examination of body on the scene

00:13:36 Preserving the body

00:18:39 Body decomposition inside a house

00:23:15 Landfill with everything breaking down

00:27:58 Body preserved when barely covered

00:31:24 Body preservation in frozen area ,

00:34:15 Conclusion

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Mom Said So: Maddie Soto, 13, Sent to Sleep in bed With Mom's Boyfriend, 38, on Her Last Night Alive

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

This is an update to the story of Madeline Soto and her heartbreaking death, allegedly at the hands of her mother's boyfriend. A cause of death has been released but not the autopsy report due to the victim's age and it is a case of domestic violence. Joseph Scott Morgan pours through investigators reports to shed new light on what happened to Madeline Soto in the time before she was murdered as well as the days before her body was found.

00:00 Introduction, life of Madeline Soto
04:54 Madeline made to sleep with mom's boyfriend
10:24 No Autopsy toxicology record available
14:15 Cause of Death; strangulation
18:28 Comparing injuries to neck
23:46 Suspect called "Master Manipulator", grooming
27:36 Madeline's body was tossed over fence
31:51 Conclusion

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The Smell Of Death

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

What is the worst thing you have ever seen on the job? This is one of the most common questions asked of Joseph Scott Morgan. Today on Body Bags, the professor breaks down the stages of decomposition while sharing his firsthand accounts of working the scene of bodies that have been decomposing in the heat from a day to a month or more. This is a can't miss episode that provides an up close look at those who deal with death and the very natural things that take place in every person when they die.

Transcription Highlights

00:00:00 Introduction - What is the worst thing you have ever seen?
00:03:45 Sensory Memories and human remains
00:05:06 Talk about the "smell" of burning flesh
00:09:25 Particular smells, burning tires
00:15:25 Life and Death are natural
00:20:18 Description of decomposing body in a bed
00:25:07 Smelling coworkers for the smell of decomposition
00:30:14 Different levels of decomposition
00:35:38 Environmental temperature impacting decomposition
00:40:36 Looking at decomposition hiding injury
00:42:48 Conclusion

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Septic Tank Sam Identified After 44 Years

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

April 1977, an unidentified body is pulled out of a septic tank and given the name, "Septic Tank Sam". The body had been burned before being wrapped in a yellow bed sheet and tied up with a nylon rope.

Today, Joseph Scott Morgan explains how it was possible that over four decades passed before "Sam" got his real name back. Attempts were made to find out the name of the man they called "Septic Tank Sam," but it wasn't until the scientists at Othram Labs got involved in the case that an answer was found.

Using genetic genealogy, Othram Labs was able to change the name of "Septic Tank Sam" and provide answers for the community that wondered, "whatever happened to Gordie?" "Septic Tank Sam" was actually Gordon "Gordie" Sanderson. Please check out Othram: A Revolution in Cold Case Resolution.

Transcript Highlights
00:00:05.95. Introduction - waste
00:04:14.33 The story of Septic Tank Sam
00:07:23.77 A couple looking in a septic tank finds a body
00:12:40.12 The body is protected
00:17:17.25 Environment helped preserve body
00:21:43.62 Discussion of desiccation
00:24:29.47 Body misidentified as caucasian
00:30:01.26 Cause of death, gunshot wound
00:35:04.01 Defining prone and supine
00:40:00.92 Identification of bodies
00:45:40.95 Identifies body as indigenous
00:47:11.38 Conclusion, Othram providing answers

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PHD Student Allegedly Kills Friend's Baby, Injures His Twin

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Ethan Katz and Savannah Roberts are the proud parents of twin boys, Ari and Leon. The twins are just six-weeks-old when family friend, Nicole Virzi, comes to visit and help with the babies. Virzi is a PHD candidate at UC San Diego in the Clinical Psychology program on break from school and she is welcomed with open arms. Days later, Ari Katz is at the hospital with injuries to his penis and Leon is fighting for his life with massive head trauma. And all of the injuries suffered by the twins happened when they are left alone in the care of Nicole Virzi. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how the injuries suffered by the twins don't match the description of what happened as told by Nicole Virzi.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction
02:13.27 Talk about the Death Penalty
05:13.45 Description of injuries suffered by Ari
09:16.23 The is not a "sids" case
14:47.53 Nicole Virzi is not a stranger, she is a friend
19:07.90 Ari has bruises below belly button
24:15.22 Scratches don't appear to be "baby scratches"
29:09.13 Injuries to Leon's head
34:47.86 Joe describes how the skull grows
40:34.63 Virzi told 911 baby feel out of bassinet
44:45.67 Conclusion - will continue to follow story

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Her Name Was Tammy: Rockwood Jane Doe Identified after 19 Years

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

An unidentified body is found in August 2005, in the picnic area of a rest stop off of a highway between Guelph and Rockwood in the Canadian province of Ontario. At the time, authorities determined the remains belonged to a woman who was potentially as young as 25 or as old as 45 when she died. In this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan sheds light on the remains known as Rockwood Jane Doe and how the scientists at Othram solved a missing person case that went unsolved for 18 years.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.01 Introduction - Family DNA
04:57.36 Discussion of Rockwood Jane Doe found in 2005
09:47.82 Discussion of Remains
15:35.81 Talk about the science of aging
20:23.69 Discussion How teeth wear down is a clue
24:54.52 Discussion Broken Bones of victim, clues
30:14.10 Discussion Body Found in area under sleeping bag
34:11.55 Talk about suspicious death
42:13.81 Conclusion victim was Tammy Penner

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SHOCKING DEATH of Beloved Teacher, Businesswoman Jackie Glynn

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

A Silver Alert was issued for 76-year-old Jackie Glynn. Her husband, Joe Glynn, tells the family their mother had terminal cancer and left home to attend a support group so she could die on her terms. Joe Glynn had been married to Jackie Glynn for 24 years and her adult children don't believe what they are hearing from their mother's husband. On this Episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan explain how the killer helped law enforcement by they way he chose to dispose of the body and the evil weapon he chose to carry out his murderous plan.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.01 Introduction; Cancer breaking a Big Man
04:57.36 Discussion of using cancer as reason for disappearanceJoseph
09:47.82 Discussion of Jackie Glynn, an accomplished woman
15:35.81 Talk about "Amber Alert" "Silver Alert"
20:23.69 Discussion investigation targeting intimate
24:54.52 Discussion of Joseph Glynn killing wife
30:14.10 Discussion of getting innocents involved
34:11.55 Talk about recently turned earth
42:13.81 Discussion of suspect admitting everything
42:17.33 Conclusion, guilty plea, life in prison

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Staging Suicide: The Death of Sandra Birchmore

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Sandra Birchmore is 23-years-old and 3-months pregnant when she is found dead in her apartment. Her death is ruled a suicide, but her family doesn't believe it so they hire world renowned forensic pathologist, Dr. Michael Baden, to review her death. The former chief medical examiner of New York City writes a letter of his findings in which he details why he believes the death of Sandra Birchmore is not a suicide, it is a homicide. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how Dr. Baden came to his conclusion and how the Federal Government got involved in the case that ended up with the arrest of Police Detective Matthew Farwell who is now charged with Murder and staging the crime scene.

Transcript Highlights
00:42.43 Introduction: Trust
02:12.59 Discussion of becoming numb to investigations
04:57.94 Discussion of "explorer" group
07:37.19 Discussion of police officers involved with children
10:01.54 Talk about investigation of suicide
15:01.44 Discussion of getting all possible info at scene
20:08.48 Discussion of Post Mortem Lividity in seated position
25:15.37 Talk about conversations among those who work closely
30:09.57 Discussion of victim being involved sexually with police officer, allegedly
35:21.22 Discussion about autopsy
40:04.86 Talk about what level of contact between law officers in different departments
44:17.43 Conclusion - Will Update

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Missing: A Quarter of Century, The Disappearance of Melissa Wolfenbarger

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Mother of two, Melissa Wolfenbarger is missing. Her husband doesn't report her missing and tells investigators that they always talked of changing their names, getting fake identification and going "off-grid" out west, and that is what he thinks she did. A skull is found near where Chris Wolfenbarger works, but it is identified as the skull of a man. Years go by before the skull and other bones found near her husband's former workplace are identified as Melissa Wolfenbarger. But the case remains unsolved. Investigator Sheryl McCollum devotes years on the case and documents it in her incredible podcast called Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will give you the complete story and explain how a Serial Killer helped break the case in an attempt to get justice for his daughter.

Transcribe Highlights

00:11.82 Introduction - Avon Avenue and Melissa Wolfenbarger
05:03.78 Discussion of a skull and a missing mother of two
09:43.56 Discussion a head found in the road, where is the rest
15:02.40 Discussion of family and contact
19:53.10 Talk about the "finder"
24:57.23 Discussion of what to do when you find part of a body
29:47.38 Discussion of skull identified as male
34:41.20 Discussion of arms and legs found
39:51.28 Discussion of investigation
45:29.76 Discussion of serial killer helped solve crime
Conclusion - listen to Zone 7 podcast for details

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Sisters Missing 45 Years: SOLVED!

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In 1973, Martha and Flora Helmick went to a family reunion with Martha's employer, World War I War Hero, John Keyton. The trio left Bridgewater, Virginia on August 3, 1973, but never arrived in Kentucky for the family reunion. As word spread about the WW1 War Hero and sisters vanishing, a search was conducted, but nothing was ever found. On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how a bone found in a car that was found by firefighters during a training exorcise in the Kentucky River helped solve a 45 year old mystery.

Transcript Highlight
00:12.74 Introduction - Vanishing act circa 1973
05:00.88 Discussion of World War I veteran, Hero
09:42.25 Discussion of Ford Fairlane, driving at night
14:05.07 Discussion of 3 people vanishing on a trip
20:07.28 Talk about finding a bone
25:26.24 Discussion calling in expert
30:05.68 Discussion of broken bone not healing properly
35:01.86 Discussion of confirmatory evidence
40:02.16 Talk about sisters vanish, firefighter helps solve case
42:15.31 Conclusion remains tell the final tale

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The Language of the Dead Spoken From The Grave

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

There really is a Language of the Dead and it is spoken by the deceased in a way that people like Professor Joseph Scott Morgan can understand. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan explains the Language of the dead known as the Post Mortem Interval, PMI. Many phrases are used on podcasts, tv shows, and movies where it is assumed the audience knows the meaning, but many times, we don't. Joseph Scott Morgan takes the time to define and explain PMI; Post Mortem Interval, in this somewhat different, very informative episode of Body Bags.

Transcribe Highlights
00:12.74 Introduction of PMI Post Mortem Interval
04:42.25 Discussion sounds a dead body makes
09:20.95 Discussion of death investigation
14:18.98 Discussion of Jacksonville State University
19:18.52 Talk about the language of the dead
24:23.14 Discussion of what happens when a person dies
29:48.47 Discussion of "real world: conditions
34:18.51 Discussion of what happens when a person dies in unusual position
39:00.23 Talk about liquid seeks lowest area
43:12.20 Discussion of "fixed"
44:20.54 Conclusion Paying attention

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Kept Alive To Be Tortured: The Death of Jennifer Paxton

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Jennifer Paxton was looking for a place to stay with friendly faces for a few days. Rebecca Dishman and Sean Finnegan seem to be the friendly faces she is looking for...until she walks into their apartment. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will talk about how Jennifer Paxton was beaten with a baseball bat, shackled to a bed, raped, tortured, and eventually murdered.

Transcription Highlights

00:08.43 Introduction of Jennifer Paxton death
04:55.92 Discussion of victim, lured, tortured, raped, murdered
09:00.14 Discussion of someone treated as less than human
14:41.08 Talk about co-conspirator
19:10.79 Discussion of Paxton being placed in freezer
24:16.48 Describing police finding frozen body under bed
30:45.98 Discussion of over 50 injuries to victim
35:45.22 Talking about abuse of a corpse
40:34.78 Discussion of baseball bat used as weapon
43:10.84 Conclusion

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DEATH OF INNOCENCE: MOM STUFFED IN TUB, BABIES IN TRUNK

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Markayla Johnson moves with her two children, 4-year-old Miracle and 7-month-old Messiah, to Charlotte, North Carolina to be with her boyfriend, Benjamin Taylor. Within weeks of arriving from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, her family realizes they haven't seen her like they would normally expect. Reaching out to check on Markayla, the family get text messages from her phone, but there is something wrong. The messages don't sound like Markayla. After going to the apartment and finding nobody home, the family of Markayla Johnson report her and the children missing. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan walks you through the apartment that is now a crime scene and explain what police found when they opened the plastic tub filled with air fresheners......and Markayla Johnson. But where are the children?

Transcription Highlights

00:00.01 Introduction - Names of deadly drugs
04:59.53 Discussion of Markayla and children move to Charlotte
07:06.46 Discussion of text messages
10:53.00 Joe Talks about finding a body
12:22.00 Discussion of evidence of children
16:59.24 Talk about smell of decomposing bodies
22:06.34 Discussion of methodology of suffocation
25:35.12 Talk about smell of decomposition from trunk
30:17.86 Discussion of triple homicide
34:53.71 Discussion of small bruises around mouth
39:49.39 Discussion secure scene
45:37.10 Benjamin Taylor being held without bond

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Death of a "Friend"

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Matthew Perry became a star surrounded by "Friends" and became a falling star surrounded by "Friends" who did nothing but feed his addiction. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how a death investigator determines if a body found submerged in a hot tub died from drowning, drugs, or a combination of both. And in the end, who is responsible?

Transcript Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction of a "friend"
00:39.79 Joe Talks about being fan of Matthew Perry films
05:00.76 Discussion of Matthew Perry physically showing addiction
09:03.23 Discussion of addiction and death
14:04.73 Discussion of ketamine
18:57.46 Talk about Joe finding live addict during death investigation
24:28.68 Discussion of different types of drugs
27:46.64 Discussion of doctor selling $12 bottle of ketamine for $2,000
32:42.38 Discussion of death investigation, elements of drowning
36:21.22 Conclusion, will doctors be treated as street dealers

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Loved to Death: The Murder of James Nalborczyk

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The family of James Nalborczyk reports him missing on December 21, telling police the last time they saw or talked to James was on December 7. Police investigate and visit Nalborczyk's girlfriend, Michelina Goodwin who quickly tells them she and James broke up and he left driving a company truck to a job in West Virginia. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how Michelina Goodwin's claim that she accidentally shot her boyfriend in the back does not match the evidence. If it was an accident, why did Michelina and a friend, chop up James into little pieces, put his body parts in bags, and hide the bags in very rural areas of two counties.

Transcript Highlights

00:07.55 Introduction: Becoming a "Proctor"
05:00.24 Talk about Murder of Ingrid Lyne
09:47.51 Discussion of killers keeping body nearby
14:23.46 Discussion of family thinks James is missing, he is dead
19:20.00 Discussion of forensic evidence of weapon firing
24:28.57 Talk about "drop test" on a gun
29:29.26 Discussion of "accidental shooting"
34:27.65 Discussion of body being wrapped in paper
38:46.85 Talk about privacy law
44:18.04 Discussion of two perpetrators who roll over on each other
46:14.07 Conclusion - no way to make blood disappear

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Bonus: Killer Dad Chris Watts Fears For Life Behind Bars | Crime Alert Hourly Update

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:34:17 +0000

Today we'd like to direct your attention to another podcast - the new Crime Alert Hourly Update. The Crime Alert team delivers hourly updates on breaking crime news as it happens throughout the day! Follow now on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/CrimeAlert_HourlyUpdate
It’s been 6 years since Chris Watts murdered his wife Shannan Watts and their two children Bella and Celeste. Now the 39 year old killer says he is afraid for his life.

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Shocking Update! C.I. Knew Before Sade Murdered, Dismembered!

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In the Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan titled "Dinner, Drinks, Dismemberment-The Sade Robinson Murder, Joseph went into great detail of the facts as they were known in the first weeks of the investigation. On this special episode of Body Bags, more information has been made public that is even more shocking than the first part of the story. A confidential Informant tells investigators that Maxwell Anderson showed him the basement, and Anderson told him what he was going to do with his victim. It is too late to make a difference now, but why didn't this "confidential informant" with a direct line to police tell someone what Anderson was planning?

Transcript Highlights
00:05.25 Introduction - Sade Robinson, part 2
05:37.25 Discussion of confidential informant knew
09:53.01 Discussion of remembering dates and times
14:30.28 Talk about cutting a body into parts
19:37.78 Discussion of Maxwell Anderson relaxed before attack
24:08.34 Discussion 12 hour window between dinner and car on fire
29:29.95 Talk about hiding blood
34:24.64 Discussion information in public
39:38.27 Talk about clothing items and test surface for DNA
45:07.69 Discussion of bathing body of Black Dhalia
48:04.44 Conclusion: items found in basement could be the beginning

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For the Want of a Baby: The Death of Ashley Bush

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Ashley Bush, pregnant with her fourth child, is the main breadwinner in her home.

However, she has been diagnosed with gestational hypertension and needs a job she can do from home. She connects with a woman named Lucy on a social media site for expectant mothers, who offer the exact type of job Ashley needs.

In this episode of "Body Bags," Joseph Scott Morgan explains how medical professionals determine when a birth has occurred naturally and when something has gone wrong. Dave Mack will delve behind the headlines to uncover what happened to Ashley Bush and what will become of those responsible for causing her harm.

Transcript Highlights

00:17.33 Introduction - times are tough
03:22.40 Discussion about set-up, work from home to lure pregnant woman
08:00.83 Discussion about stealing baby from womb, call 911
13:32.57 Talk about decomposition that happens inside mother's body
18:26.72 Discussion of woman has placenta in her pants, baby dies
22:41.29 Discussion gestational hypertension
27:00.24 Discussion of Waterman admits killing Ashley bush
31:49.71 Discussion of working neonatal unit
35:44.32 Talk about burning body, heat insufficient
40:03.01 Discussion of Jamie Waterman led investigators to body
41:10.24 Conclusion, sentencing in October

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Black Swan Murder: A Selfish Motive?

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Ashley and Doug Benefield marry after knowing each other for 13 days. Doug's previous wife has only been dead 9-months and he has a 15-year-old daughter to raise. Ashley convinces Doug to finance her dream Ballet company and to get his vasectomy reversed. On this episode of Body Bags you will discover why a prosecutor said Ashley Benefield decided she wanted to be a single mom when she was pregnant, and Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how someone can be shot in the chest even when they are not facing the shooter!

Transcript Highlights
00:00:16.23 Introduction Discovery of the Black Swan
00:04:10.75 Discussion of Ashley Benefield the ballerina
00:08:42.29 Talk Doug and Ashley marry 13 days after they meet
00:14:29.79 Discussion of family dynamic
00:19:09.37 Discussion about why they married so fast
00:25:00.33 Discussion about Ballet company, Ashley pregnant
00:29:08.13 Talk Black Swan claims domestic abuse
00:34:24.42 Discussion of Ashley lying to Doug in therapy
00:40:22.90 Talk about Doug being shot in the chest and leg
00:44:33.51 Jury did not believe self-defense, Black Swan convicted

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SHOCKING Crime Scene Photos Tell New Story About Gypsy-Rose

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Some people say Gyspy-Rose Blanchard is Munchhausen-by-proxy survivor, the victim of her own mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. And they would be right. Some people say Gyspy-Rose Blanchard is a murderer, and they too, would be right. After lifelong physical, mental, and medical abuse, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard met a disturbed young man online and concocted a plan to getaway from Dee Dee Blanchard and begin her life as an adult. But Dee Dee would have to die. The crime scene was shocking, and now the pictures are out in the public. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan is going to explain why the photos were taken to begin with and how pictures at a crime scene actually do more than just document what has happened, sometimes they can help investigators discover a lot more.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.01 Introduction, taken advantage of a storm
03:07.93 Talk about Dee Dee Blanchard, opportunist
08:13.54 Discussion of Dee Dee claiming Gypsy-Rose was sick as a baby
10:37.33 Discussion of crime scene photos released
15:04.43 Talk about the story of Dee Dee and Gypsy-Rose
20:08.29 Discussion of using hurricane Katrina
25:05.99 Discussion of surgeries not needed
29:54.59 Talk about Gypsy-Rose and boyfriend
34:14.12 Discussion of Gypsy-Rose "story" about death of Dee Dee
39:50.66 Discussion of crime scene photos of Dee Dee Blanchard murder
40:59.73 Talking about photographic documentation of crime scene
47:38.96 Conclusion

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Ellen Greenberg Bombshell Update: Suicide Ruling to be Investigated?

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The death of Ellen Greenberg has been in the news since the day her manner of death was changed from homicide to suicide. The question remains to this day; Ellen Greenberg is found dead in her kitchen with over 20 stab wounds to her head, back, neck, and chest. She has bruises all over her body in various stages of healing. Why was her case ruled a homicide and then changed to a suicide? On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will share his experiences with suicides and breakdown the wounds inflicted on Ellen Greenberg's body. Ellen Greenberg's are trying to have her manner of death changed from Suicide to Homicide or undetermined, either one will demand a new investigation into the death of their daughter. After years of hearing "no", they finally heard a "yes", the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is going to hear their case. Not about manner of death, but whether or not the parents of the victim have standing in court to argue on behalf of their deceased daughter.

Transcript Highlights

00:12.98 Introduction,Hope for the parents of Ellen Greenberg
03:14.72 Discussion of Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear case
05:00.99 Discussion of changing manner of death from homicide to suicide I
09:04.99 Talk about 911 call
13:02.70 Discussion of giving family death notification
17:56.11 Discussion of recreation of scene
20:00.14 Talk about Ellen Greenberg body in kitchen
24:11.52 Discussion Phone Calls made before 911
28:34.29 Discussion of man who bled out from self inflicted knife wound
32:06.80 Discussion of stabbing yourself in the back
35:31.55 Talk about the effects of knife injuries
38:31.02 Discussion of suicide practice shot
40:06.80 Conclusion is it possible?

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The Death of a King: The 500 Year Mystery

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Richard the Third died on the battlefield on August 22nd 1485. He had only been King of England for a little more than 2 years but he became the last King of England to die in battle. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will take a deep dive into history to tell the story of the Battle of Bosworth, and use current science to find the remains of the King, more than 500 years after they were lost.

Transcription Highlights

00:00:11.09 Introduction of Richard the Third
00:05:22.43 Discussion of The House of Lancaster and House of York
00:07:20.98 Discussion of finding the remains or Richard III after 500 years
00:10:21.94 Discussion of how the "victor" writes the history
00:15:55.72 Talk about the battles, weapons used in the 1500s
00:19:03.00 Discussion of geography, how people could "hear" the battle
00:21:12.66 Discussion of the death of chivalry with treatment of Richard III
00:26:04.23 Discussion of injuries created weapons of the time
00:29:38.71 Talk about finding the remains or Richard the Third
00:34:23.37 Discussion of finding legs in the first grave uncovered
00:39:41.84 Talk about forensic anthropologist on site
00:44:03.03 Discussion of injuries sustained by Richard the Third
00:49:12.19 Conclusion: finding remains or Richard the Third

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What Was In The Tea?

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

A guest fails to check out on time at the five-star Grand Hyatt Erawan in Bangkok. When hotel workers come to clean the room, the door is locked and hotel management and security are called. The door opens up and the nightmare begins. On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan will explain what a body goes through when cyanide is used to kill and Dave Mack goes behind the headlines and the rumors to find out how 6 people end up dead in a hotel room, and nobody survived. No blood. No bullets. No knives. Just Cyanide.

Transcription Highlights
00:00:03.72 Introduction: Don't Drink the Kool-Aid
00:04:00.06 Discussion of cyanide death at Jonestown
00:07:25.90 Discussion of Cult taking cyanide
00:10:07.48 Discussion of getting someone to take the poison
00:12:27.13 Discussion of 6 people meeting for business
00:17:33.23 Talk about being around cyanide
00:21:22.19 Discussion of people dying in house fire, test positive for cyanide
00:25:47.21 Discussion of what people can use to take a life
00:30:33.98 Talk about variety of items with that are lethal, cyanide shows on top
00:34:40.03 Discussion trying to find cyanide
00:39:00.03 Discussion of therapeutic use of fentanyl, no medicinal use for cyanide
00:41:04.10 Discussion of symptoms of cyanide poisoning
00:44:56.39 Conclusion level of horror, dying from cyanide

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For The Love of Money: The Death of Fasil Teklemariam

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Police arrive at the apartment of Fasil Teklemariam in Washington DC for a call of an unconscious person. Police quickly note that Fasil is more than unconscious, he is dead. Multiple stab wounds, and it appears that one of his thumbs has been cut off. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain what happens when a thumb is severed from a hand, and can experts tell if it happened when the victim was alive or dead. Dave Mack will dig into the background of those involved and try to figure out who talked.

00:02.12 Introduction: "The Rule of Thumb"
02:51.25 Discuss removing thumb to rob victim
05:14.45 Discuss James Bond,"biometric" science
09:04.94 Talk about CCTV footage
14:20.13 Discussion of thumb removed from body
19:08.42 Discussion of what happens when everything dries up
22:33.29 Talk suspects stole key fob allowing access to the building
27:57.92 Discuss thumb came after trying to extract info
32:00.21 Discussion of shoe print left behind
36:46.63 Discussion of weapons used, did they use knives found in kitchen
36:49.34 Conclusion: they wanted his money, took his life

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A Judge's Decision: The Death of Lauren Johansen

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Bricen Rivers nearly beat his girlfriend to death in their car in Nashville while on a romantic weekend getaway.

Jailed with bond set high enough so he couldn't get out, his victim, Lauren Johansen, is recovering in Mississippi when a judge lowers River's bond, and lets him out to finish what he started.

On this episode of "Body Bags," Joseph Scott Morgan will explain the horrible injuries Lauren sustained in the first beating in Nashville, while Dave Mack breaks down the backstory on the relationship that was so toxic, Lauren Johansen winds up dead in the back of her own car in the middle of a cemetery.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:04.19 Introduction - Being a parent, Father .
00:04:26.07 Discussion of abusive relationship
00:09:20.25 Talking about parenting a child in abusive relationship
00:13:39.86 Discussion of Nashville trip, how much effort it would take
00:18:40.36 Talk seeing trauma in hospital
00:23:22.52 Discussion or rocks as a weapon, pistol whipping
00:28:29.50 Discussion of wound to Lauren's head at hairline
00:32:02.27 Talk about man abusing woman, judge lowering bond
00:36:15.69 Discussion of Lauren being kidnapped from home
00:40:38.20 Discussion of wounds Lauren suffered before death
00:43:48.59 Talk about Lauren wasn't recovered from December 11 beating
00:46:41.34 Conclusion Lauren's father helped recover her body

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A Visit from Relatives

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Cleo Loizides is 81-years-old and living in a senior care facility in Virginia. After a visit from her daughter, 53 and grandson, 24, an orderly finds her stiff and cold to the touch. In this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain what happens when someone in a senior care facility passes away and how to tell the difference between a natural death and a murder. Dave Mack will look at the history of the family that begins with Cleo Loizides as a Model in the 1960s and ends with her death in 2024.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00:02.39 Introduction - circle of life
00:01:07.72 Discussion of murder of 81-year-old woman
00:04:46.47 Discussion of Cleo Loizides found dead on floor
00:09:59.22 Talk about people in care facility
00:14:43.59 Discussion of nursing home deaths being investigated
00:19:44.18 Discussion of Elder abuse
00:22:30.18 Discussion of health, getting her own food, not needing help
00:26:10.21 Talk about knowing a body is dead
00:31:19.24 Discussion of daughter and grandson visiting
00:35:07.92 Discussion of cause of death
00:39:02.45 Discussion of daughter and grandson confess to murder
00:41:16.31 Conclusion Cleo deserved a better end

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A Mother's Discovery

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Virginia Summers hears a rumor that "something" has happened to her adult daughter, Tara Capps. Tara is a free spirit but she maintains regular contact with the family. Virginia files a missing person report and begins looking for 36-year-old Tara. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how difficult it is to find forensic evidence in a homeless encampment, and Dave Mack will fill in the details of how the family searched, and found, Tara Capps.

Transcript Highlights
00:14.80 Introduction of Tara Capps story
04:20.08 Discussion of camping and homeless camps
07:56.22 Discussion of searching for missing adult
12:12.03 Talk about mother getting tip about missing daughter
16:50.90 Discussion of homeless camp near body location
23:33.33 Discussion of decomposed body found between two living men
27:08.41 Talk about truth of what happened to Tara will come out
31:43.75 Discussion of Remains sealed inside plastic tote
36:25.48 Talk about evidence in the area
40:15.04 Discussion of how body was covered
42:28.16 Conclusion Family of Tara Capps needs answers

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Anger Management Therapist Charged with Murder of Homeless Man

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

When Travis McBride was in his teens, he got in trouble with the law over anger issues. As an adult he opens a successful therapy practice focusing on Anger Management. The subject of this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, the alleged murder of a homeless man by an anger management therapist. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how blood will spread from a body to the trunk area of a vehicle and onto pavement. Dave Mack investigates the background of the victim and finds Clinton Dorsey was married with three adult children and eight grandchildren. Was Clinton Dorsey really murdered by an Anger Management Therapist?

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00 Introduction College choices

00:04:21 Discussion Anger Management Therapist

00:06:51 Discussion about applying education to life

00:11:01 Talk about Anger Management therapist having anger issues

00:16:24 Discussion of suspects previous charges

00:21:38 Explaining charges

00:26:04 Discussion of therapist charged with homicide

00:33:17 Talk about how suspect cleaned blood in street

00:38:26 Discussion about leaving blood around side area of car trunk

00:40:03 Discussion of post-mortem lividity

00:44:16 Conclusion - will update after the case goes to court

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The Mayor and The Murders

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

A former Mayor with 28 years of law enforcement experience has been charged with first-degree murder in a triple homicide. In this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will break down the weapons used in the murders and the possibility that one of the victims died while he was on the phone with 911. Dave Mack will try and explain what happened four days before the shooting that may have led to the murders.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00 Introduction people seeking power

00:02:12 Discussion ex-mayor suspect triple homicide

00:07:45 Discussion Triple homicide, 911 caller goes silent on call

00:12:21 Talk about different types of guns

00:17:35 Discussion suspect shows up with multiple weapons

00:22:12 Discussion triple homicide occurs four days after event that led to it

00:27:14 Discussion of defense strategy for shooting three people

00:33:17 Talk about suspect showing up armed, left home enraged

00:38:26 Discussion of victims shot with different guns

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Buried Alive: The Kidnapping of Sandra Pagniano

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Sandra Pagniano vanishes from her home in the middle of the night while her husband and daughters are asleep. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how handwriting analysis broke the case wide open, while Dave Mack digs into the fractured marriage of David and Sandra Pagniano. All signs point to one suspect and one location where Sandra Pagniano was bound, gagged, and buried alive in a hand dug grave.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00 Introduction, history, writing, buried alive

00:03:22 Discussion or “Person of Interest”

00:06:21 Discussion of “notes” Jon Benet Ramsay note

00:11:01 Talk about handwriting analysis

00:16:15 Discussion of documents

00:21:22 Discussion of obvious suspects

00:24:19 Discussion of cadaver dogs

00:26:32 Talk about using cell towers to track location

00:31:41 Discussion – how to tell someone was buried alive

00:35:29 Discussion kidnapped from her house, buried alive

00:39:13 Conclusion – Life in Prison

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Jonathon Jones: Suspect, Victim or Both?

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

17-year-old Kaitlyn Coones is a runaway from a group home in Canton, Ohio, and is staying with Jonathon Jones, 33, at his mother's residence. Nicole Jones, 53, mother of Jonathon Jones, is unaware that her son has snuck a teen into his bedroom. Days later, Kaitlyn Jones calls a case worker at the Canton group home informing her she has done something terrible and is on the road with Jonathon Jones. Canton Police call for a welfare check and officers discover Nicole Jones has vanished. Jones car, her son Jonathon, and Kaitlyn Coones are also missing.

In this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, Joe explains what evidence, recovered by investigators, lead police to say Nicole Jones is dead Dave Mack goes behind the headlines explaining the relationship dynamic between Jonathon Jones and Kaitlyn Coones to determine if the teen is a victim, a suspect, or both.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:03 Introduction – teen kidnapped, mother missing, convicted son being sought

00:04:47 Discussion of missing mom’s car tracked to Arizona and New Mexico

00:07:52 Talk about attention focus when child is involved

00:11:47 Discussion of 33-year-old man sneaks teen into his bedroom

00:16:59 Discussion of Jonathon Jones and Kaitlyn Coones

00:22:29 Talk about Nicole Jones being murdered in kitchen

00:27:18 Discussion of circumstantial evidence

00:32:30 Discussion about rock used as murder weapon

00:36:44 Talk about Kaitlyn Coones giving Jonathon Jones 5 hours to kill

00:40:03 Discussion of using GPS to track movement of suspects

00:42:03 Discussion of blood and hair evidence

00:44:02 Discussion of Jonathon Jones failure to disarm GPS tracker

00:45:51 Talk about focus on Kaitlyn Coones being underage victim and suspect

00:46:56 Conclusion Nicole Jones body will never be found, Jones and Coones are in prison

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Cold Case Murder of Beloved Teacher Solved After 29-years!

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Mary Catherine Edwards is found naked and in handcuffs in her bathtub with about 4 inches of water. She has been sexually assaulted and murdered. Cause of death is drowning and asphyxia. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how the case that went unsolved for nearly 30-years was solved with DNA, Genetic Genealogy and a tip of the cap to Othram . Dave Mack will help tell the story of the 31-year-old beloved schoolteacher and the killer who almost got away with her murder.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:06 Introduction of Cold Case Murder

00:05:42 Discussion of shutting down crime scene

00:09:44 Talk about Parents discovering body of their daughter

00:13:27 Discussion of motivation

00:18:01 Talk about “torture”

00:22:21 Discussion of cause of death, drowning and asphyxia

00:27:30 Discussion of drowning in bathtub

00:31:23 Discussion of Shera LaPoint, the Gene Hunter

00:35:33 Talk about familiarity between victim and suspect

00:39:20 Discussion of DNA and genetic genealogy

00:41:52 Discussion of Rape Kit

00:46:35 Conclusion: DNA Solves

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Mark Barton: Family Destroyer and Mass Murderer

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Six years before he became known as the Day Trader who went on a murderous rampage, Mark Barton was the suspect in the death of his first wife and her mother while they were camping at a lake in North Alabama. Today, Joseph Scott Morgan shares personal memories of working the homicides in Atlanta, as well as breaking down the murders of Mark Barton’s first wife and her mother in the camper, and his second wife and children in their apartment.. Dave Mack fills in the back-story on how Mark Barton may have gotten away with murder and child molestation, but he couldn’t escape himself.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:08 Introduction of geography, family killer, mass murderer

00:02:46 Discussion of Mark Barton

00:07:21 Discussion of murderers and weapons

00:11:44 Talk about day traders in Atlanta

00:16:04 Discussion of murder in camper trailer on lake

00:21:17 Discussion of “robber” that left behind cash and jewelry

00:26:26 Talk about blood in the Camper

00:31:02 Discussion of Mark Barton cheating on his wife

00:35:57 Discussion of timeline of family murders and Buckhead massacre

00:39:49 Discussion of Barton killing second wife and children with a hammer

00:43:06 Discussion of murders at Momentum and All-Tech

00:46:20 Conclusion, Barton shoots himself in the head

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Skeletal Remains of Missing Georgia Beauty Found in Tennessee

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Skeletal remains found near the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee don't match up with any missing person cases in Chattanooga or the surrounding area. It takes several months before the remains are positively identified. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will take you into the field where the remains have been found and into the lab where identification takes place, and Dave Mack will look into the facts surrounding the disappearance of the 20-year-old beauty from Georgia and how she ended up as a skeleton on the side of a rural road outside Chattanooga Tennessee.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:25 Introduction of 20-year-old woman, missing

00:04:07 Discussion of geography of the case

00:07:20 Discussion of picking up body in jail

00:11:51 Talk about Fentanyl becoming drug of choice

00:16:13 Discussion of drugs and dealers

00:20:48 Discussion of reporting missing person

00:24:16 Talk about the deposition of the body

00:28:08 Discussion of trauma on the bones

00:32:32 Discussion explaining forensic anthropology at the scene

00:37:13 Discussion of being absent of clothing

00:41:40 Conclusion – Case is still open; we will follow up

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The Body Bags Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Transcript Highlights

00:00:10 Introduction of human destruction

00:02:09 Description of Bienville Parish

00:05:24 Description of Bonnie and Clyde car on display

00:08:14 Discussion Bonnie 23, Clyde 25

00:11:15 Talk about Bonnie and Clyde murder young cop

00:15:11 Discussion about State Coroners convention

00:18:05 Discussion about transcribing

00:21:32 Talk about Bonnie and Clyde murdering cops

00:25:57 Discussion of BB Episode about Coroner system

00:28:21 Talk about autopsy of famous people

00:31:41 Discussion of Dr. Wade and others at the autopsy

00:35:00 Discussion of injuries suffered by Bonnie Parker

00:37:42 Conclusion: Bonnie and Clyde meet their end

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The Body Under the Stairs: The Death of Eric Mercado

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Trista Spicer tells everyone her live-in boyfriend, Eric Mercado, left the house on October 11, 2014, and never returned. Mercado’s family called him “Nino” and they printed up posters, circulated info on social media and physically looked for their “Nino” with no luck. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will detail what happens when someone is hit in the face with a frying pan and their throat is slit with a box cutter. Dave Mack will investigate the relationship between Trista Spicer, Eric Mercado, and Waylan Gentry, and who gave the police the “tip” that turned a missing persons case into a homicide investigation.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.01. Introduction - walking through graveyards

05:08.07 Discussion of social media, sharing too much

10:07.10. Discussion of victim, early 40s

15:35.82. Talk about spouses

20:20.01. Discussion about a missing family member

26:08.66 Discussion of what did Suspect tell new boyfriend

31:18.61. Talk about tattoos

36:39.54 Discussion - somebody always talks

40:26.66 Discussion of soft tissue, dehydrated skin

42:04:13 Conclusion - Face smashed in with frying pan, throat slit

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Evil Has A Tattoo Face: The Death of Two Women

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Wade Wilson, not the superhero better known as "Deadpool" but Wade Wilson, Tattoo Face Killer. If Wilson has a favorite song it is probably "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash for the line "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die". For Tattoo Face Wade Wilson, using a gun to kill someone is too impersonal. In this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain just how personal it is to strangle the life out of someone with bare hands, and Dave Mack will go behind the tattoos and headlines to find out more about the victims of the vile creature capable of killing two women in a matter of hours, just because he can. Assistant State Attorney Andreas Gardiner in closing argument in murder trial of Wade Wilson: "This case was about killing for the sake of killing. Strangulation is the epitome of life slipping through someone's hands."

Transcribe Highlights

00:39.32 Introduction of a nightmare

05:03.44 Discussion of Wade Wilson, tattoo face

10:24.32 Talk about Wilson claiming to be a victim

15:00.63 Discussion about how Wade Wilson got invited back to woman's home

20:23.78 Discussion about destroying a person for no reason

25:52.10 Talk about isn't it enough?

29:33.42 Discussion about Wilson leaves Melton's home in her car

33:49.88 Discussion of Diane Ruiz body damage, injuries and animals

38:23.24.Discussion Wilson tells Bio Father what he has done

42:13.10 Conclusion - Wade Wilson, Florida Justice

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From Murder to Suicide: The Deaths of Jerry and Jennifer Harris

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Jerry Harris's pregnant daughter is murdered, her uterus removed, and her body thrown in a river. She is found by fishermen six days after she is last seen alive. Jerry Harris commits suicide outside the Sheriff's Office. On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan go behind the evidence and take a look at the body of Jerry Harris' daughter, Jennifer, a murder still unsolved. Dave Mack digs into the story of Jennifer Harris. Who knew she was pregnant and who wanted her dead? The ex-husband? The ex-boyfriend? Did Jerry Harris get so depressed over the murder of his daughter that he killed himself at the Sheriff's office as some kind of challenge? We know Jerry Harris killed himself. Do we know why?

Transcript Highlights

00:00:17.19 Introduction of "Cold Case" and recent suicide

00:03:48.25 Discussion of life and "dark space"

00:07:29.51 Talk about notification of family

00:10:31.93 Discussion of Jennifer Harris before she vanishes

00:14:43.53 Discussion of evidence, finding Jennifer

00:19:47.66 Talk about detaching while investigating

00:25:25.90 Discussion of finding and condition of remains in Red River

00:29:57.94 Talking about water damage

00:33:35.52 Discussion of ex-husband alibi

00:39:03.49 Talk about Jeep, latent hand or palm print

00:40:04.96 Discussion of cabin in the woods, burned down

00:43:30.88 Discussion of skill level of the person removing uterus

00:45:36.30 Conclusion: Blue clay, caretakers' cabin, suicide of Jerry Harris

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An Unnatural Affair: The Staged Suicide of Giselle Tapia-Salazar

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

A Texas mother of 4 is found hanging from a dock with a rope around her neck in an apparent suicide. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will go behind the shocking story of an apparent suicide and Joe Scott will explain how a witness describing the woman’s body hanging from the dock tells him she didn’t kill herself; this is a murder!

01:38.72 Introduction: Suicide or Murder

05:20.55 Discussion of rigidity

09:06:44 Talk about boat life, living at marina

13:02.11 Discussion of arms hanging down

16:41.60 Talk about 30-year old mom, 4 children

19:31.74 Discussion of suicide

24:33.02 Discussion of woman’s arm points to different conclusion

28:06.63 Discussion of staging a suicide

32:14.44 Talk about girlfriend leaves, doesn’t come back

36:11.46 Discussion of post-mortem lividity in aquatic environment

39:18.91Discussion of flaccid

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Teen Missing Two Months, Found Naked, Shot in Back of Head

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Recorded LIVE at CrimeCon Nashville, 2024:

In this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan explains how he challenges his class at Jacksonville State University to try and solve a cold case. Two years in a row, two different classes and students chose the unsolved murder of Blake Chappell. Blake Chappell tells his mother he is having the best night of his life with his girlfriend at the East Coweta High School Homecoming Dance.

Within a matter of hours, Blake will find himself chased out of his girlfriend’s house in the middle of the night, walking down the road at 5 a.m. texting his girlfriend, and telling her police just stopped and talked to him. One last text to his girlfriend that he is getting cold, and his phone goes quiet.

Blake Chappell is 17 and he never makes it back to his friend’s house. He just vanishes into thin air. It is October 16, 2011. Two months later on December 17, 2011, his nearly naked body is found floating in a creek, he has been shot in the back of the head.

The case is still unsolved. But new search warrants were served in March 2024, will there be justice for Blake Chappell?

Transcript Highlights

00:00:13 Introduction Blake Chappel Case

00:04:40 Discuss of family financial issues

00:08:28 Blake finds ex-girlfriend who ran away

00:10:32 Blake beaten up by ex’s stepfather

00:12:26 Blake put in jail for finding his ex

00:17:35 Mother takes Blake and date to homecoming dance

00:20:48 Discussion of Blake activities walking in the night

00:24:24 Talk about Blake walking miles to see girlfriend

00:28:08 Talk about Blake texting girlfriend

00:31:49 Talk about Blake doesn’t make it back to Austin’s house

00:37:36 Discussion Blake shot in back of head

00:43:22 Discussion rumors about Blake’s death

00:48:12 Discussion Blake found wearing underwear, no shoes

00:52:34 Conclusion Joseph Scott Morgan lets his JSU class pick unsolved crime to solve

Two years in a row the case of Blake Chappel is chosen for the project

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10,000 Human Remains Found on Serial Killer’s Farm

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Herb Baumeister lived more than just a “double life."

On this episode of "Body Bags," Joseph Scott Morgan explains how it is possible that Baumeister had over 10,000 remains on his million-dollar estate, and Dave Mack dives into the background of the married, father and businessman who owned two Save-a-lot stores in Indianapolis.

Baumeister, who took his own life in 1996, is suspected of enticing gay men to his home, where he killed them and disposed of their bodies at the rear of his property.

Investigators suspected that Baumeister, a married father of three at the time who frequented gay bars, enticed unsuspecting men to his property to murder them. By 1999, investigators connected him to the disappearance of at least 16 men since 1980.

Some of the victims’ bodies were discovered discarded in shallow streams in rural central Indiana and western Ohio

For 30 years, investigators have been working to identify thousands of human remains, will they ever know the truth about how many people Herb Baumeister murdered?

Transcript Highlights

00:00:13 Introduction of serial killer graveyard

00:04:40 Discuss killer double life, wife claims she didn’t know anything

00:08:28 Talk about trying to identify bone from other items

00:12:26 Discussion of Forensic anthropologists

00:17:35 Discussion of hiding secrets from family

00:20:48 Talk about serial killer obsession with dead animals

00:24:24 Discussion of the depth of depravity

00:28:08 Discussion of skeletonized body on the property

00:31:49 Talk about trying to render body down to ash

00:36:36 Discussion of method of destruction after burning

00:40:22 Discussion of other serial killers

00:44:12 Talk about the size of the property

00:44:34 Conclusion

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Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Checklist For Torture and Murder

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Why did police serve another search warrant at the home of Rex Heuermann? Remember, his wife and children still live in the house. After his original arrest and the search warrants were served, pictures appeared in the press showing the damage done as the home was stripped. What did they miss? Why did they bring out the ME? On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan will take you into the house and what the ME might be looking for as well as the crime scenes and what has been found. Dave Mack will explain the “To-Do” list and go over the electronics Heuermann has been keeping for decades.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00 Introduction: Bernice Worden last victim of Ed Gein

00:02:20 Discussion of Gilgo document release

00:06:54 Talk about being on a jury

00:09:44 Discussion – warning about content of episode

00:13:55 Discussion of why go back with another search warrant?

00:19:05 Talk about Rex Heuermann and the list he created

00:23:11 Discussion of Heuermann electronics

00:27:02 Discussion of Rex Heuermann planning note began in 2000

00:30:59 Talk about violent, sexual torture

00:34:17 Discussion of going to a scene, police don’t know what they have

00:38:35 Talk about mutilated body a few miles from home

00:42:15 Talk about access to material was different in the 1990s

00:42:50 Conclusion, why they called the ME out to the scene

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Skull Found in Plastic Bag in 1985 Identified; Victim Born in 1864

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In 1985 a skull and partial remains are found in a plastic bag near Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard, California. Thinking the remains are from a recent victim, investigators work to solve what they think is a murder. Failing to identify the victim, the case goes cold. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how the scientists at Othram Labs developed a DNA extract from the evidence and were able to identify “Ventura County Jane Doe "as the victim of a grave robbing that happened after her death in 1915. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will share the story of Gertrude Elliot-Littlehale, a woman born in 1864 and the amazing life she lived well before she became the unidentified “cold case” of “Ventura County Jane Doe”. Othram Labs is helping solve cases that seem unsolvable with the help of everyday people willing to make a small donation at DNASOLVES.COM Please take a moment of your time and visit DNASOLVES.COM and see how you can help solve a case.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:08 Introduction of Ventura County Jane Doe

00:03:44 Discussion of Skull found in a bag in 1985

00:07:19 Talk about history and DNA

00:11:58 Discussion identifying bodies

00:15:13 Talk about going from 1985 back to 1864

00:20:49 Discussion of dogs and old bones

00:24:14 Discussion of forensic anthropologist

00:29:04 Discussion of “suture lines”

00:33:03 Talk about solving crimes with DNA

00:38:20 Discussion of building a family tree

00:42:12 Discussion of “Gertie” and her life

00:46:50 Talk about Othram Labs

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Woman Declared Dead, Found ALIVE in Funeral Home

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Imagine waking up inside a body bag, declared dead and transported to a funeral home, where you find yourself short of breath, BUT STILL BREATHING! In this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan we will explore something that is happening far more often than you think, people being declared dead, who wake up on a table in a funeral home! And how to make sure you are not Buried Alive!

Transcript Highlights

00:00:08 Introduction: worst nightmare come true

00:03:02 Discussion being buried alive

00:07:28 Talk about funeral homes

00:11:49 Discussion of hospice care nursing

00:16:29 Discussion of soldier Battle of the Bulge

00:20:24 Talk about forensic pathology

00:24:46 Discussion of dead body, signs of death

00:28:30 Discussion of death investigation

00:31:34 Talk about people declared dead, waking up in funeral home

00:34:16 Discussion of death and declaring someone dead

00:38:04 Conclusion: cautionary tale, death investigation is important

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Serial Killer Blueprint For Murder Found on Heuermann's Computer

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The victims of the Long Island Serial Killer have been known in the media as the “Gilgo 4”, but now that Rex Heuermann has been charged with two more murders the media will have to change the name to the “Gilgo 6”. Rex Heuermann is an architect by trade, someone who can create and use blueprints. Investigators found a Serial Killer Blueprint on Heuermann’s computer. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how DNA evidence and hair might be enough to put away Rex Heuermann for good, and Dave Mack will explore some of the items found on Heuermann’s computer. From disturbing images of abuse and porn, to lists of supplies for torture, investigators found a goldmine during a recent search of Heuermann’s home.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:08 Introduction of Gilgo details

00:02:09 Discuss Rex Heuermann two new murder charges

00:07:19 Discussion of Data from a forensic standpoint

00:12:01 Talk about seeing the dumping ground and home of Heuermann

00:16:58 Discussion of more bodies found along Gilgo

00:21:18 Discussion of area, easy to be seen

00:25:25 Discussion of the court documents, new information

00:29:37 Talk about changes in DNA science since early 90s

00:33:36 Discussion of skin and injury

00:37:05 Conclusion – more bodies

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'Gilbert Goons' Reign of Terror Ends In Murder of Preston Lord, 16

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

They called themselves the "Gilbert Goons", a group of teens that were suspected of assaults at parties and parking lots, as well as armed robberies. Defended by their parents, the teens' reign of violence culminated with the fatal beating of 16-year-old Preston Lord. Preston was at a Halloween Party with friends when one of the "Gilbert Goons" stole a cheap necklace from a friend of Preston Lord. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will tell the story of how a town in Arizona was terrorized by a group of entitled teens who were defended by their entitled parents for years until they almost got away with murder.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:08 Introduction: Group Think

00:03:56 Discussion of group of teens in Gilbert, Arizona

00:07:22 Discussion of Gilbert Goons videotaping the beating

00:11:15 Talk about the assaults attributed to the teens in Gilbert

00:16:09 Discussion of how the beating of Preston Lord continued

00:21:07 Discussion of a bully

00:25:45 Talk about parents joking about the beating

00:30:19 Discussion of severe blunt force trauma

00:33:52 Discussion of shoe imprint on the body of victim

00:38:02 Conclusion: judgement is coming.

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Chrystul Kizer, 17, Kills Her Abuser. Is It Murder?

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Chrystul Kizer is 17 when she is arrested for the first-degree murder of Randy Volar. The question that will be answered through investigation and the court system is whether or not Chrystul Kizer killed an innocent man, or did she kill a man who was sexually abusing her and other underage girls. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will breakdown the case and take an in-depth look at what story the forensics tell and what information a judge will have to consider in sentencing a teen who saw murder as her only way to live.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:17 Introduction: growing up

00:02:18 Discussion of Chrystul Kizer, 17, abuse victim

00:06:52 Talk about fire debris and dead body

00:09:57 Discussion of heat causing teeth to shatter

00:13:15 Discussion of destruction of a person

00:17:05 Discussion of multiple victims

00:21:47 Talk about laws regarding sexual abuse

00:25:54 Discussion of electronic forensics

00:29:01 Talk about Chrystul Kizer trying to survive

00:33:04 Discussion of damage 2 shots to the head can cause

00:38:11 Discussion of stippling

00:41:43 Talk about victim escaping in BMW

00:44:27 Discussion of plea deal offered

00:45:18 Conclusion – sentence coming in August

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Middle School Assistant Principal Charged in Triple Homicide Cold Case

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Georgia authorities find three victims tortured and murdered in Clayton County and taken to Fulton County. They were found in an abandoned car along I-85 at an exit ramp in Union City, Georgia on January 13, 2013. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will take you into the investigation that determined the victims were tortured and murdered and Dave Mack will go into the back story on how the case remained cold for 11-years until forensics led investigators to a Middle School Assistant Principal in Alabama and 3 other suspects.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:08 Introduction – Position of authority

00:02:36 Talk about Assistant Principal arrested in cold-case triple murder

00:08:06 Discussion -11 years after 3 dead bodies found in a car, a break in the case

00:11:54 Discussion - victims found in Atlanta from Montgomery, Alabama

00:17:02 Talk about suspect was assistant principal at a middle school

00:20:51Discussion of multiple jurisdictions working on a case

00:24:23 Talk about medical examiners

00:27:40 Discussion of multiple suspects

00:30:03 Discussion of asphyxiation

00:31:14 Conclusion, what did the bodies say?

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History of Coroners: The Truth You Never Knew

Thu, 30 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The National Institutes of Health, comparing a medical examiner and coroner, states that Coroners are elected lay people who often do not have professional training, whereas medical examiners are appointed and have board certification in a medical specialty.

All of this is true.

On this episode of "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan," Joe will take you back in history to a time when the person who finds the dead body in their yard has to gather a posse and solve the murder mystery or be stuck with paying taxes!!

The coroner system has a long history, some funny stories, some strange people, and a few mysteries to unpack.

Transcript Highlights

00:22.56. Introduction of studying the dead.

03:04.63 Discussion most people don’t die from bullet wounds

06:01.87 Talk about forensics

11:38.68 History of “Normans”

17:44.17 Discussion of power of Coroners

22:25.90 Discussion of Coroners Jury

26:18.76 Discussion of authority of coroner

31:00.67 Discussion of scientific people in coroner system

32:05.27 Talk about who backs up the coroner

37:48.5 Discussion of medical examiner state vs coroner state

42:49.50 Conclusion

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Tinder Date From Hell: The Horrific Murder of Grace Millane

Wed, 29 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Grace Millane is in New Zealand when she meets Jesse Kempson on Tinder. Grace is on a Gap Year trip that has taken her to South America and now she is in Auckland, New Zealand where she is camping and hiking and meeting new people. Connecting on Tinder, Grace meets Kempson for dinner and drinks, most of their evening captured by CCTV. They arrive back at Kempson's hotel and we see them get on and off the elevator. It is the evening of December 1 and Grace turns 22-years-old on December 2nd. On this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, Joe will breakdown what happened to Grace inside the hotel room and what Jesse Kempson did in the aftermath of the gruesome murder. And Dave Mack will try and make sense of the timeline when, even now, we don't know if Grace made it to her 22nd birthday.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:18 Introduction of Grace Millane, gap year vacation

00:04:27 Discussion of Tinder date timeline

00:09:15 Discussion murderer goes on another Tinder date

00:13:56 Talk about targeting victim, asphyxia

00:18:33 Discussion of Gap Year

00:23:46 Discussion of date captured on video

00:28:17 Talk about murderer covering up the crime

00:33:03 Discussion of destroying the victim

00:36:31 Discussion of killing someone with hands around neck

00:40:13 Talk about the sexual assault

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Missy Bevers Murderer Caught on Tape: Why is Murder Unsolved?

Tue, 28 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Missy Bevers was murdered inside a church before 5 a.m. while she was preparing for her morning fitness class. Her body is found by a student and Missy is pronounced dead at the scene. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will discuss the possible weapons used to kill Missy Bevers and Dave Mack will dig into the possible suspects in an unsolved murder where the main suspect is caught on camera wearing a police swat kit and walking the halls of the church with an unusual gait, waiting for Missy to arrive.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:24 Introducing Missy Bevers

00:01:51 Discussion of unsolved murder

00:04:12 Talk about Camp Gladiator

00:08:38 Discussion of murderer seen on video

00:12:28 Discussion of odd gait

00:17:13 Talk about suspect, man or woman?

00:21:13 Discussion of SWAT disguise

00:26:09 Talk about new kit

00:30:13 Discussion of long hammer as a weapon

00:34:31 Discussion of injuries matching weapon

00:39:05 Talk about coverage of case in media

00:43:20 Discussion of no gun belt

00:46:44.Conclusion

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Tara Baker Cold Case Murder SOLVED After 23 YEARS

Wed, 22 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On January 19, 2001, Tara Baker was murdered in her apartment.

The perpetrator sexually assaulted her and then lit the apartment on fire. The case went cold in the town of Athens, Georgia, for over 20 years.

On this episode of "Body Bags," Joseph Scott Morgan will break down the science of solving a cold case and Dave Mack will fill in the blanks of the story that shocked Northern Georgia for over 20 years.

Recently the murder of Laken Riley brought the Tara Baker homicide back into the conversation and with great detective work and with biological evidence and DNA science, the cold case became hot again, as hot as the fire the suspect set to destroy evidence of the horror he created.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:09 Introduction of influence

00:01:24 Tragic Cold Case Solved, Tara Baker

00:04:11 Discussion of Tara Baker case and Laken Riley

00:08:32 Discussion of fire in apartment

00:09:24 Talk about find body

00:14:32 Discussion of accelerants

00:19:21 Discussion of death investigation in fire

00:24:41 Discussion of time involved in the attack

00:27:58 Talk about predators selecting their victim

00:31:33 Discussion of how to determine sex assault when body is burned

00:37:20 Discussion of how a burned body is examined

00:38:47 Talk about unsolved cold case

00:41:50 Case solved; Edrick LaMont Faust arrested

00:44:46 Conclusion, Faust is 48, Tara Baker died at 21

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Dr. Cyril Wecht – Doctor, Lawyer and Legend, A Tribute

Wed, 22 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, Joe is going to break with our regular format and take a look at a man who revolutionized the Medical legal death investigation field. He was famous as a “Celebrity Pathologist” but that doesn’t do the man justice. When others walk away from trouble, Dr. Cyril Wecht said, “Where is the brain of JFK?” Joseph Scott Morgan shares his thoughts on the passing of Dr. Cyril Wecht.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:18 Introduction from JFK movie

00:00:47 Talk about Dr. Cyril Wecht

00:04:06 Talk about passing of Werner Spitz

00:08:21 Discussion of JFK

00:11:37 Discussion of Dr. Wecht as Air Force Officer

00:14:45 Talk about Wecht running for political office

00:19:33 Discussion of Dr. Wecht from coroner’s office to medical examiner

00:24:16 Talk about Wecht didn’t play golf, life was his hobby

00:27:16 Discussion of Wecht getting sued for comments

00:31:36 Talk about Wecht discovers JFK brain is missing

00:35:02 Talk about destroying evidence to cover up a crime

00:38:34 Discussion of Dr. Cyril Wecht accomplishments

00:39:28 Discussion about over 42,000 Post-mortem exams

00:43:49 Joseph Scott Morgan share thoughts on Dr Wecht

I just want to take a moment and 1st off acknowledge his passing and certainly the wet family, the Duquesne family and all of his extended friends and colleagues. My deepest sympathies to them because he's a man. He is a man that Has impacted so many of us in the field of forensic science. He passed away peacefully on May 13th.

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SHOCKING AUTOPSY: Who or What Killed Noah Presgrove?

Tue, 21 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Transcript Highlights

00:00:08 Introduction: Growing up in rural area

00:03:10 Talk about List of Injuries

00:05:17 Discussion of group dynamics

00:09:12 Discussion of what happens to clothing

00:12:27 Talk about social media evidence

00:16:11 Discussion of internal injuries

00:20:26 Discussion of injuries cased by falling out of a truck

00:24:14 Talk about skull fractures

00:28:32 Discussion of brain fluid

00:32:52 Discussion of broke teeth

00:36:03 Talk about animals and body on road

00:37:52 Discussion of cervical injuries

00:40:00 Discussion of abrasions

00:41:47 Talk about being hit by car

00:43:59 Discussion of data

00:44:17 Conclusion; After the autopsy we still don’t have answers

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Werner Spitz, The Original Medical Detective, a Body Bags Tribute

Thu, 16 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Dr. Werner Spitz is a man who spent his lifetime looking straight into the soul of man and looking death in the eye. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan gives a heartfelt tribute to a mentor he never met, a teacher that never gave him a test but one whose approval was sought in every written word and study as a death investigator. Dr. Werner Spitz passed away at the age of 97 on April 14, 2024, and this show is a special tribute to a man that actually did write the book of his profession, "Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death; Guidelines for the Application of Pathology to Crime Investigation.

Transcribe Highlights
00:33.95 Introduction to the life of Werner Spitz

05:59.93 Discussion of Spitz impact on forensic pathologists

09:53.32 Discussion of fleeing Nazi Germany

13:51.43 Talk about being the lone voice of truth that you see

17:35.73 Discussion of Mary Jo Kopechne

24:16.10 Discussion of Spitz being called into high profile situations

28:15.52 Talk about examination using photographs

31:38.41 Discussion of not being afraid to take on cases others wouldn't

36:52.60 Talk about paying for an opinion

37:01.94 Conclusion Those who fail to remember history, are doomed to repeat it

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Unsolved Double Homicide: Married 68 Years, Who Killed Russell and Shirley

Wed, 15 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The double homicide of Russell and Shirley Dermond rocked their gated community along Lake Oconee in Georgia.. The decapitated body of 88-year-old Russell Dermond was found in the garage and his wife of 68 years, 87-year Shirley Dermond was found in Lake Oconee weighted down with cinder blocks, 10 days after Russell's body was found. On this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, you will learn about the evidence investigators found at the crime scene as well as what can be learned from a body that may have been in a lake for 10 days. The double homicide has gone unsolved for 10 years and the head of Russell Dermond has never been found. How was this elderly couple, married 68 years, murdered and why?

Transcript Highlights

00:00:08 Introduction about murders

00:05:00 Discussion about neighbor checking on Dermond’s

00:09:34 Talk about unsolved murders, 10 years

00:14:04 Discussion about Shirley Dermond body found in lake

00:19:05 Discussion of Russell Dermond head, it’s missing

00:23:51 Discussion about Shirley was weighted down

00:28:08 Talk after 10 years, case still unsolved

00:31:39 Discussion of lack of blood at scene

00:34:52 Talk about how head was removed

00:37:57 Talk about DNA evidence

00:40:28 Conclusion: After a decade, new evidence might solve the case

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Death Of Innocence: Was JJ Vallow, 7, Buried Alive? Was Tylee Ryan Dismembered?

Tue, 14 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Was 7-year-old JJ Vallow alive when he was buried? Was 16-year-old Tylee Ryan dismembered before her remains were burned? What does the autopsy say about the death of Tammy Daybell? On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain the forensics of all 3 victims and Dave Mack will fill in the background on the story of what really happened to JJ Vallow, Tylee Ryan, and Tammy Daybell

Transcript Highlights

00:00:08 Introduction, loving arms that didn’t hold JJ and Tylee

00:04:21 Discussion of the deaths, JJ, Tylee, and Tammy Daybell

00:07:54 Discussion of bodies buried near one another

00:11:19 Discussion of death of Tammy Daybell

00:14:57 Explaining asphyxia

00:18:45 Talk about access and opportunity

00:22:58 Discussion of Dr Warren on witness stand

00:26:02 Discussion of Bones being scattered, broken up while burning

00:29:07 Talk about JJ Vallow trying to pull bag off his head

00:30:47 Conclusion: Justice, whatever that means, is coming.

Justice, whatever that means, is coming and there is a reckoning coming.

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12 Dead Bodies in 22 Months: Does Austin Have A Serial Killer?

Thu, 09 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Transcript Highlights

00:16.18 Introduction about water and murder
03:37.66 Discussion does Austin have a serial killer?
08:13.12 Discussion what does "serial killer" do to an area
13:22.11 Talk about other serial killers, were they really caught
17:54.47 Talk about witnessing a death on the water
22:03.17 Discussion of toxicology
27:53.13 Discussion of victims
32:38.32 Talk about water as a dumping ground
36:26.16 Discussion of decomposition in water
40:04.57 Talk about water flow
47:42.83 Discussion about rumors over fact
Conclusion

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Bardstown Ky - Unsolved Murder Capital

Wed, 08 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Mother of five, Crystal Rogers is last seen July 3 by her live-in boyfriend, Brooks Houck. Crystal Rogers mother, Sherry Ballard, reports her missing on July 5. Later that day, Crystal Rogers red Chevy Malibu is found abandoned on the Bluegrass Parkway. The car has a flat tire, but Rogers' keys, phone and purse are still inside. 16-months later, Crystal Rogers is still missing and her father, Sherry Ballard's husband, Tommy Ballard, is murdered in the early morning hours as he prepares to go hunting on his own property with his 12-year-old grandson.

Ballard is shot from an undetermined distance, but his property backs up against the Bluegrass Parkway. It's a fast getaway in either direction for a gunman. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack explore the disappearance of Crystal Rogers and the murder of her dad, Tommy Ballard. Plus, Joseph Scott Morgan explains how prosecutors can prove Crystal Rogers was murdered, even though they haven't found her body.

Transcribe Highlights

00:12.12 Introduction of growing up with PaPaw Morgan
03:34.36 Discuss Crystal Rogers missing, her father Tommy Ballard murdered
06:15.27 Discussion of Bardstown Kentucky
07:46.82 Discussion of why Brooks Houck didn't report Rogers missing
08:13.81 Talk about Crystal Rogers car found on Bluegrass parkway
15:45.34 Talk Rogers car found with flat tire, she is still missing
18:16.83 Discussion of Brooks Houck, suspect, brother is police officer
21:13.58 Discussion of police letting Houck talk to his brother on phone
26:27.16 Talk about tracking dogs pick up Crystal Rogers scent at farm, but not at her car
31:09.10. Discussion 16 months after Crystal Rogers vanishes, her dad, Tommy Ballard killed
34:36.43 Discussion of how bullet twists the skin
39:02.99 Discussion of Tommy Ballard hunting, murdered on his own property
40:52.53 Discussion of murder charges without a body
43:45.73 Conclusion - waiting for trial

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Corey Micciolo: Forced To Run to Death

Tue, 07 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Corey Micciolo did not meet his father until he was 5-years-old. Soon thereafter Corey landed in the middle of a custody battle. From the first time he was left alone with his father, Corey came home with bruises, busted lips, and more. His mother complained but nobody listened. Only now are people paying attention because of an awful video showing 6-year-old Corey Micciolo being forced to run on a treadmill and falling off, over and over. Each time he falls off the treadmill, his father puts him back on and turns the speed up, allegedly. Christiopher Gregor is on trial facing murder charges for allegedly killing his own son in what the media calls the Treadmill Abuse Trial. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain what really happened to Corey Micciolo and why 6-year-olds don't drop over dead, and Dave Mack will fill in the rest of the story of how Corey was given to a father that never bonded with him while his mother begged for anyone to listen.

00:38.98 Introduction, talk about weapons

05:17.90 Discussion of exorcise as punishment

10:01.23 Talk about making 6-year-old run on treadmill

16:01.12 Discussion of bruises and injuries

21:06.32 Talk about Corey's health is fine, except for bruises

26:20.26 Talk about Corey tells doctor about football and treadmill

32:41.40 Discussion of children don't die of natural causes at 6

37:27.82 Discussion of injury to abdomen

39:12:19 Conclusion Final Diagnosis, Blunt Force impact, laceration of heart

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Man Stalks Estranged Wife, Sends Her "Death Flower" Knowing She Is Allergic

Thu, 02 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Lisa and David Hernandez had been separated for a year before he starts stalking her, showing up at her job uninvited and unwelcome. He sends his estranged wife a bouquet of flowers with Lillies, "the Death Flower", knowing she is extremely allergic to them. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how someone can be killed by a blunt force instrument and a sharp-edged instrument at the same time and Dave Mack will fill in the story with the creepy stalking that David Hernandez allegedly did to his wife.

Transcribed Highlights
00:02:00 Introduction of Lisa Hernandez

05:12.52 Discussion of "Death Flower"

08:50.91 Talk about a tool as a weapon
14:17.46 Discussion of skull injury

19:46.20 Discussion of suspect knowing victim allergies

24:28.29 Talk about a "staged" scene
29:19.40 Discussion of allergic reaction
32:32.27 Discussion of blunt force and sharp force
36:26.87 Talk about tossing weapon / tool into lake
41:22.33 Discussion of Searching the bottom of a lake

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Decomposed Body of Missing 12-year-old Jaylen Griffin Found Stashed in Attic

Wed, 01 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On August 4, 2020, 12-year-old Jaylen Griffin went to the corner store in his neighborhood to try and make a little money helping people carry their groceries home. On this day, he brings his new puppy with him and many people remember seeing the boy and his puppy. But Jaylen Griffin and his puppy never makes it home that evening. It seems as though Jaylen has vanished into thin air. Neighborhood searches, flyers, reward money, nothing helps bring the boy home. Three months after Jaylen goes missing his older brother is murdered, shot dead almost in front of their Buffalo, New York home. Days turn into weeks, weeks into months, and months into years. In September 2023, Jaylen's mother dies,
never knowing what happened to her 12-year-old son. Months after her passing, the decomposed remains of Jaylen Griffin are found in the attic of a house about 5-miles from where Jaylen lived in south Buffalo. The house was no stranger to law enforcement and many people wonder how it was possible the remains of a child could decompose in the attic of a house with many residents and nobody smelled or saw anything. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will breakdown the forensics that will help determine the cause and manner of death and try to answer questions that could lead to justice for Jaylin Griffin

Transcript Highlights

00:03.10 Introduction of life, memories

01:06.13 Talk about 12-year-old boy missing 4 years

05:20.86 Talk about getting help from dentist to ID victim

07:45.26 Discussion of how to identify remains of a child

11:36.93 Discussion of "Bite" marks as evidence

17:00.65 Jaylen and the "12-year molar"

20:05.82 Discussion of weather on remains

24:45.81 Talk about the home where Jaylen's remains were found

29:22.81 Discussion of remains and smell, compare to Harmony Montgomery

33:00.68 Discussion of law enforcement, fire, rescue calls to address

37:24.74 Talk about remains having "soft tissue"

41:20.56 Conclusion will the remains lead to a murderer?

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Suzanne Morphew Death: Homicide, Animal Tranquilizer in Her System

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

From Mother's Day 2020 until September 2023, only one person really knew that Suzanne Morphew wasn't just missing, she was dead. In September 2023 the remains of Suzanne Morphew were found while investigators were working a different crime, An autopsy was done on the remains and on this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how doctors were able to create a toxicology report using only bones, and why Susanne Morphew's death has been ruled a homicide.

Transcribed Highlights
00:42.91 Introduction of Suzanne Morphew

03:21.30 Talk about autopsy of bones

06:54.40 Discussion of remains

10:43.53 Discussion of Mountain Lions

14:37.94 Talk about the disappearance of Suzanne Morphew

18:16.37 Discussion of darts and animals

20:55.11 Talk about the depth of a hole for remains

26:25.13 Discussion of co-mingling of bones

30:06.14 Discussion of decomposed body

35:20.28.Talking about the bones in the arms

41:21.60 Discussion of darts and toxicology

47:03.48 Conclusion of the Suzanne Morphew

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The Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

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Deadly First Date: Dinner, Drinks, Dismemberment- The Sade Robinson Murder

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Sade Robinson is having fun on her first date with a new guy. They pose together and post the picture to social media. Sade had no idea she was taking a picture with the devil and she only had hours to live.

In this episode of "Body Bags," Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how the killer sealed his fate by trying to destroy evidence with fire.

Transcribe Highlights

00:22.97 Introduction Milwaukee

05:01.65. Talk about Jeffrey Dahmer

07:29.72 Discussion of dismemberment

09:53.60 Talk about getting rid of smell with tires

14:06.81 Discussion of finding leg

20:10.93 Talk about remains being compromised

25:18.19. Breaking down the timeline

30:30.67. Discussion of other women missing

34:38.48 Talk about fire inside a car

36:38.64 Discussion of witness who saw person use lighter to start car fire

39:33.42 Conclusion – how remains will tell what really happened to Sade

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Ex-Girlfriend or Cop Cover-Up; Who Killed John O’Keefe

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Boston Cop John O'Keefe and his girlfriend Karen Read go on a pub crawl before ending their the night at the home of a Boston cop friend of O'Keefe's at 12:45 am. 6 hours later, the body of John O'Keefe is found in the front yard of the house, covered in snow in blizzard conditions. He is wearing two shirts, jeans, socks and one shoe. Near his body on the snow are shards of glass and splotches of blood. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will take an up close look at the injuries and find out what really happened to John O'Keefe. Dave Mack will breakdown the story that has divided Boston and together they will try to answer the question: Who Killed John O'Keefe?

Transcribed Highlights

00:01.10 Introduction, talk about weather conditions and murder

02:05.22 Discussion of Karen Read case

05:05.56 Talk about Media coverage

09:09.25 Discussion of forensics role in investigation

14:06.82 Talk about background of relationship

16:16.35 Breaking down timeline of events

19:50.94 Discussion of physical injuries

21:07.56 Talk about Blood Alcohol

25:20.82 Talk about leaving bar, going to house party

30:09.48 Talk about Text Messages, getting directions

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Missing Moms: Bodies Found

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley vanish on their way to pick up Veronica’s children to go to a birthday party. They were supposed to meet up with Veronica Butler’s ex-mother-in-law at a closed gas station in rural Texas County, Oklahoma. But they never make it. On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how evidence from blood to tire treads will help solve the mystery of the Missing Moms.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00 Introduction of shared custody

00:03:10 Discussion or relationships and death

00:06:50 Talk about terrain

00:11:03 Discussion of moms reported missing

00:14:08 Talk about how vehicle ended up where it is found

00:18:46 Discussion of evidence found at scene

00:23:21Talk about tire tread identification

00:27:47 Discussion of term “puddle of blood”

00:31:16 Discussion of meeting place

00:34:16 Talk about SWAT Teams showing up in Rural County

00:38:44 Talk about death penalty states

00:40:56 Discussion identifying body

00:42:29 Conclusion

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IDENTIFIED: Green River Killer’s Final Victim

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

For years she was labeled “Bones 20” the unidentified victim of the Green River Killer. But now, thanks to police work and Othram Labs, the victim has been named as Tammy Liles. She was from Everett, Washington, and vanished in the summer of 1983. She was only 16 years old when she became a victim of serial killer Gary Ridgeway. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will take you behind the headlines and into the lab that helped give a name to a young lady who spent decades being called “bones 20”.

Transcript Highlights

00:0:16 Introduction – The Green River Killer last victim identified

00:02:28 Talk about age reference

00:06:32 Discussion of high-profile murders

00:10:48 Talk about the Green River Killer 16-year-old victim

00:15:56 Discussion of identifying remains

00:20:54 Discussion of the Green River Killer evidence

00:25:58 Talk about starting with incomplete skeleton

00:29:41 Discussion of Genetic Genealogy

00:34:51 Talking about Othram labs

00:37:39 Conclusion; might be the most noble of pursuits

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Killer Tortures New Mom To Death, Leaves Her Infant Alone To Starve

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Destiny Duckett’s cousin couldn’t reach her by phone, so she stopped by her apartment to check on her. The cousin knocks on the door, but Destiny doesn’t answer. The cousin can hear the baby crying and she is worried. She calls police to do a welfare check and when they enter Destiny Duckett’s apartment, her 8-week old son is on the bed, crying, and his 22-year-old mother is on the floor, dead. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will look into the mysterious death of 22-year-old new mother, Destiny Duckett and Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how fingernails play a keep part in solving the murder.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00 Introduction of case

00:02:20 Discussion of fingernails

00:05:37 Talk about cousin called police, heard baby crying

00:10:56 Discussion of protective order leading to arrest of suspect

00:15:26 Talk about leaving crying baby on the bed, alone, mother dead on floor

00:19:43 Discussion of body being the biggest evidence

00:24:16 Discussion of proving knees were on chest of victim

00:28:26 Talk about fingernail marks on the neck

00:33:55 Discussion of why suspect was already in jail

00:36:33 Conclusion – Convicted, sentencing to come

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44-Years of Mystery, Dismembered Torso Identified, “You Found My Brother”

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:17:56 +0000

A bag with a burned, dismembered torso is found by a boy out for a horseback ride about a mile from town. The police chief says he was mowing his lawn when he got the call about the headless, armless, legless, burned torso, and from that moment on it was "chaos". On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will tell the story of the dismembered and burned torso and how, after 44-years, he was finally identified with DNA and Othram labs.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00 Introduction of episode

00:02:13 Talk about identifying Joseph Caliva

00:06:15 Discussion of years beginning in 1979

00:10:40 Talk about dismemberment

00:15:48 Discussion of what was found

00:17:39 Talk about burned remains

00:22:25 Discussion about trying to ID person

00:27:25 Talk about finding portions of the torso

00:31:54 Talk about creating a person out of evidence

00:36:34 Discussion after 44 years, victim identified

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Abused at 8, Murdered at 13; The Sad, Short Life of Madeline Soto

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

AUTOPSY REPORT WILL NOT BE RELEASED. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain what happened to Madeline Soto and Dave Mack will dig into the back story of the entire family. You will find out by the time she reached 13-years-old, Madeline Soto had already been sexually abused for years. When she was a “missing 13-year-old" from Florida, the news covered every tidbit of information about the search for the teen. One piece of evidence that made it to the press was how Madeline Soto told a friend when she turned 13, she was going to live in the woods. That is why police searched the woods for Madeline.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:28 Introduction, talk about parents protecting children

00:04:28 Talk about Madeline Soto saying she wanted to live in the woods

00:05:31 Discussion of ages 12 and 13

00:09:04 Discussion of Madeline not taking cell phone

00:12:29 Talk about family being told about evidence

00:16:42 Discussion of time children go to school

00:20:07 Discussion of Madeline Soto seen in vehicle

00:21:49 Talk about being haunted by evidence

00:26:26 Discussion of Madeline Soto

00:30:26 Talk about video surveillance of suspect

00:33:22 Discussion of 60 charges against suspect

00:37:32 Discussion of evidence of previous abuse

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Pregnant EMT Dies in House Fire - Tragic Accident or Murder?

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The fire department shows up at the home of one of their own and find Melissa Lamesch unconscious on the kitchen floor as her home goes up in flames around her. She is on maternity leave from her job as an EMT and is expecting her baby to be born any day. Melissa Lamesch and her unborn baby die in what authorities believe is asphyxiation from the fire. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will breakdown how trying to burn evidence of a crime, oftentimes creates the evidence needed for conviction.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:08 Introduction of fire set to cover-up a murder

00:01:18 Talk about fire and smoke

00:03:10 Discussion of smoke as evidence

00:05:05 Discussion of woman, 9 months pregnant, dying in a fire

00:08:35 Talk about how healing takes place after being burned

00:11:26 Discussion of hair catching fire in bathroom

00:14:43 Victim is on maternity leave from job as EMT

00:18:53 Discussion of the mother and her baby

00:22:53 Discussion of monoxide

00:28:01 Talk about suffocation

00:33:33 Discussion of fire splash patterns

00:36:55 Talk about the family talking to officials after the fire

00:40:46 Discussion of dealing with the death of pregnant mother

00:43:10 Conclusion, Matthew Plote convicted for Murder

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Home Invasion Hoax: The Death of Thomas Waddell

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Deborah Frazier calls 911 and tells them two burglars have shot her boyfriend, and as she is on the phone, a gunshot is heard and Frazier tells the dispatcher she has been shot in the leg by one of the burglars.

Police arrive and discover the first person shot, Mr. Thomas Waddell, is in the back room of his apartment, wrapped in a blanket and a garbage bag and secured with duct tape.

On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan will explain all of the things police will have to believe for Deborah Frazier's story to be true and Dave Mack will explain how Frazier was using a second boyfriend to con Mr Waddell out of his life savings!

Transcript Highlights

00:00:42 Talk about everything that has to be believed for the story to be true

00:02:48 Discussion of not believing a story

00:04:20 Discussion of “victim” shooting her boyfriend in the head

00:05:53 Talk about cases too difficult to believe

00:10:54 Talk about self-inflicted gunshot wound

00:14:19 Discussion of the victim who just retired

00:18:54 Talk about determining how long person has been dead

00:23:19 Discuss investigation of digital background

00:28:34 Talk about GSR test

00:33:02 Discussion of police on scene, gunshot recorded

00:37:57 Discussion of what has to be believed by investigators

00:40:12 Talk about Pictures of a life shared, scattered on the floor

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Jack-in-the-Box Murder Mystery Becomes Fugitive Wife Murder Trial

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Burned remains of a man found inside a foot locker and left in a blueberry field in Michigan were not identified for 13 years. In 2015 the case was called "The Jack-in-the-Box Murder because it was a catchy title. The remains were not identified until the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office received a tip in 2015 that gave them the information they needed to use dental records to identify the deceased as Robert Caraballo. Investigating Caraballo's life at the time of his death took investigators to the home he shared with his wife and stepdaughter. Joseph Scott Morgan will break down the forensics that brought this case to a conclusion and Dave Mack will help tell the story of how the Jack-in-the-Box Murder became The Fugitive Wife Murder Trial.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:44 Introduction of story a burned body in a trunk found in blueberry field

00:02:40 Talk about conspiracy and escaping to other side of the planet

00:05:28 Discussion of victim being alive with hammer stuck in skull

00:08:02 Discussion of injury caused by falling downstairs

00:12:34 Talk about how remains could not be identified

00:15:11 Discussion of evidence in hammer attack

00:19:49 Discussion of hitting head with a hammer

00:23:51Talk about how the skull breaks

00:28:19 Discussion of destroying a body

00:32:37 Discussion of “old school” identifying remains

00:35:15 Talk about the plan to push victim down the stairs, hit him with a bat

00:35:53 Talk about the conspiracy

00:38:01 Discussion of law in Italy for hotel guests

00:39:15 Discussion of cover-up

00:40:06 Beverly McCallum guilty on all charges

00:40:42 Talk about keeping a secret

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Dead in a Bathtub: Warm Water, Cold Body - Suicide or Murder?

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Suicide or Murder? Kendy Howard is found in a bathtub full of water with a gunshot wound to the head. His body is cold, but the water in the tub is warm! Red Flag number one. On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will take a look at all of the "Red Flags" present in the reported suicide of Kendy Howard. Why is there so little blood in the water? Why is her ex-trooper husband arrested at the airport? The biggest question of all, is the death of Kendy Howard a Suicide or Murder?

Transcript Highlights

00:00:27 Joe talks about admiration for Troopers

00:03:03 Discussion of law enforcement

00:05:59 Discussion of “Red Flags”

00:08:14 Talk about the water is warm, body is cold

00:12:23 Investigation of suicide/murder

00:16:33 Discussion of damage caused by gunshot in mouth

00:17:49 Talk about direction of bullet

00:21:26 Comparing murder of Travis Alexander

00:25:53 Defining different types of asphyxiation

00:30:08 Talk about injuries “frozen in time”

00:35:33 Discussion of how much blood would be expected

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Headless Corpse Autopsy: Victim Alive When Head was Severed?

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The victim was alive when her head was cut from her body. As disturbing as that sounds, today's episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan will attempt to breakdown the just released autopsy report of Mei Li Haskell. Her husband, Samuel Haskell IV is accused of killing her, removing her head from her torso, placing the torso in a bag and dropping it in a trash bin where a homeless guy would find it 14 hours later! Joseph Scott Morgan will breakdown the forensics that will come into the trial and Dave Mack will dig deep in the Hollywood that can give us a true horror story that is scarier than anyone would ever dare put on film.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:49 The son of a hotshot

00:03:04 “Don’t you know who I am?”

00:05:03 Discussion of “the finder”

00:08:58 Talk about the bags felt like meat

00:09:26 Discussion of workers bring back bags

00:12:20 Discussion of cross contamination

00:16:58 Talk about hiring workers

00:20:56 Discussion of what police can do

00:26:22 Talk about the person who found the body

00:30:54 Mentions victim’s parents still missing

00:33:01 Discuss autopsy report, victim alive when head cut off

00:38:20 Discussion of using power tools in dismemberment

00:42:54 Mentions trial will be all forensics

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The Monster is Real: Dad's New Girlfriend Kills Baby with Nail Polish Remover

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Iris, 1, comes home from a weekend with her father and his girlfriend and mom finds a water bead in her diaper.

Taking her to the hospital, the toddler passes more water beads, button-shaped batteries, and a screw. Thinking she was finding things and putting them in her mouth, nobody realized a monster was watching the baby.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the case that is more than the murder of a toddler, it's how evil came into the child’s life and plotted and planned her death for more than half of her life.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:20 Introduction

00:02:39 Discussion of toddlers

00:04:22 Talk about items in diaper

00:07:34 Discussion of beads, batteries, screw

00:10:12 Talk about toddlers putting things in their mouth

00:14:34 Discussion of solvent

00:16:18 Discussion of evil

00:18:27 Talk about taking child to hospital by plane

00:22:08 Explaining a subdural hematoma

00:24:01 Discussion of optic nerves

00:27:16 Talk about how healthy baby dies in 4 days

00:30:15 Discussion of notes made by doctors and nurses

00:32:54 Talk about children swallow everyday items

00:35:31Discussion suspect researched how to beat a polygraph

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Real Amityville Horror – Two Heads, Other Body Parts Scattered in Long Island

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Two severed heads, an arm here, a leg there, on this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, the Reel Amityville Horror will meet the Real Amityville Horror. A group of Long Island High School students find a severed left arm on the side of a road in Babylon on their way to school. While Police investigate the scene, a K-9 officer locates a leg sticking out of a pile of leaves in a wooded area, not far from the original scene. Over time more body parts were found in multiple areas. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will detail what was found and where and what the suspects were up against when they began writing their own Amityville Horror.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:07 Introduction – to horror

00:01:39 Discussion about charges for dismembering a person

00:04:48 Talk about how the bodies were treated in death

00:08:03 Discussion of arm with tattoo found in tree limb

00:11:51 Body part found by high school students on the way to school

00:15:16 Parts of 2 bodies found, 4 people charged

00:15:17 None of the 4 people is charged with murder

00:16:14 Discuss what the ME will have to do with parts

00:18:04 Talking about Black Dhalia

00:19:49 Discussion of none of the drains work in the rental

00:21:30 Discussion of body parts from more than one person

00:25:11 Talk about unique case

00:28:51 Joe describes investigation taking place

00:31:30 Discussion of dismemberment

00:34:01 Discussion of blood, muscle, skin, hair, Drano won’t work

00:37:13 Talk about revisiting the case in the future

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Murder-For-Hire: The Senseless Death of Pregnant Teacher

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

School Principal Cornelius Green arrives at the Amtrak train station in St. Louis after spending a few days in Chicago. Leaving the train station Green goes to straight to the apartment of his girlfriend, 3rd grade school teacher, Jocelyn Peters. Arriving at her apartment Green finds Peters, who is 7-months pregnant, in bed. He immediately calls 911 and tells them his girlfriend has been shot in the head, send help now! Jocelyn Peters is pronounced dead on the scene and the investigation begins with the person who found her, Cornelius Green. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will break down the story that leads to stolen school funds, a hitman, and a potato gun silencer, on this episode of Body Bags.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:57 Joe talks about the impact of 3rd grade teacher

00:03:12 Discussion of victim

00:08:54 Discussion of Green sending money to Cutler

00:11:23 Talk about alibi set up by Green taking train to Chicago

00:14:20 Discussion about finding pregnant woman shot in the head

00:16:02 Talk about investigation, alibi

00:19:50 Talk about no sign of forced entry

00:23:18 Discussion of “potato silencer”

00:28:12 Talking about objects changing trajectory

00:32:30 Discussion of Federal and State charges

00:36:29 Discuss Phillip Cutler in court

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At The Hands of The Student: The Murder of Colleen Ritzer

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

When Phillip Chism, 14, doesn't come home from school, his mother calls the police to report him missing.

As the town begins to look for the 9th grader, word spreads around town that a 24-year-old teacher, Colleen Ritzer, is also missing. Chism is found walking along a road just after midnight. After a quick search of his backpack, he is arrested.

Later in the morning, Colleen Ritzer's body is found on school grounds, sexually positioned with a folded note next to her body that says, "I hate you all."

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the story of the student from Tennessee and the horrifying final moments in the life of Colleen Ritzer.

Transcription Highlights

00:01:00 Introduction of location, suspect, and victim

00:02:53 Suspect is student, 14, victim is a teacher

00:04:04 Discussion of suspect family

00:08:22 Talk about motive and possible “trigger”

00:11:49 Discussion of why victim went to public bathroom

00:15:28 Discussion of witness and surveillance video

00:19:07 Talk about investigation, pinging cell phones

00:21:47 Discussion of suspect on surveillance video

00:27:25 Talk about body being covered

00:30:36 Breaking down the evidence

00:34:35 Discussion of sentence

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Jealousy, Murder, Death Sentence: The Conviction of Christa Pike

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Christa Pike was 18-years-old when she thought her 19-year-old job corps classmate, Colleen Slemmer, was trying to steal her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp. Pike spent over 30-minutes beating Colleen Slemmer with her hands and feet, as well as a box cutter and a meat cleaver. Slemmer tried to escape. Shipp,17, caught her so Pike could continue the beating. Pike carved a pentagram into Slemmer's chest, used the box cutter to slice her throat. When she didn't die, Pike picked up a chunk of asphalt and slammed it onto Slemmer's head. The next day Pike brought a piece of Slemmer's skull to breakfast and told classmates what she had done. Convicted of murder and sentenced to death, Christa Pike now wants a judge to vacate her death sentence. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack detail the story that Joe Scott says is the worst case he has ever seen.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:31 Joseph Scott Morgan says he has never seen a crime so vile

00:02:10 Woman on death row in Tennessee

00:05:16 Talk about dynamic between suspects and victim

00:10:09 Description of box cutter and meat cleaver

00:15:03 Discussion of pentagram carved into chest

00:20:56 Description of wounds to victim

00:25:15 Talk about how to occult and satanism factor into case

00:30:40 Description of taking piece of skull as a trophy

00:35:50 Discussion about letting murderer out of prison

00:39:15 Talk about sadistic murder

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Murdered While Jogging: The Death of Laken Riley

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000

The senseless murder of Laken Riley on the campus of the University of Georgia has the nation talking about everything from safety on a college campus to immigration.

Laken Riley didn't know the man who killed her, but she knew she was in a dire situation when they met. Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, allegedly attacked and killed the 22-year-old while she was out for a jog in Athens.

Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how the evidence in the case points to Laken Riley attempting to call 911 and Dave Mack will fill in the blanks on the timeline on this edition of Body Bags.

Transcript Highlights

00:15.71 Joseph Scott Morgan talks about college life

02:39.50 Talk about nursing school, education

05:33.55 Discussion of victim

09:56.27 Talk about timeline

14:03.73 Talk about seeing victim as an object

18:54.67 Discussion of blunt force trauma

22:13.70 Suspect arrives in USA illegally

31:20.86 Talk about apartment search

36:08.59 Discuss How suspect and victim were strangers

40:30.36 First Homicide at UGA in 30 years

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Murder or Suicide: The Wild Life and Sad Death of Alex Pennig

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

A Minnesota man claims his mistress fatally shot herself with his gun. The question of Murder or Suicide plays out in this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan. Joe will walk you through all of the forensic problems with the story being told. And when everything is said and done, you decide, was it murder, or suicide?

Transcript Highlights

00:01:20 Would a right-handed person use left hand to shoot

00:02:19 Discuss murder or suicide

00:04:15 Talk about “accidental”

00:05:51Discuss science and determination

00:11:16 How quick does a body become stiff

00:13:50 Different jurisdictions

00:18:25 Talk about the scene

00:21:40 Difference in suicide among genders

00:26:27Discuss drying blood

00:29:31Discuss ER Nurse can’t do CPR

00:33:14 Talk about short timeline

00:38:50 Discuss can you wash away evidence?

00:41:36 Talk about skin, brain, muzzle flash

00:44:14 Discuss desire to help people and achieve and throw it all away

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A Rope, Rock, and a River: The Death of Audrii Cunningham

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Audrii Cunningham leaves for the school bus stop just like every morning, but she doesn't get off the bus that afternoon. The family panics.

Police are called, and an Amber Alert goes out. Neighbors go door to door. A family friend living in a camper in the backyard of Audrii's house joins in the search.

Police find out McDougal was the last person to see Audrii, when he was supposed to take her to the bus stop. Audrii never got on the bus. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will break down the story of the search and ultimate discovery of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, found tied to a rock and thrown in the Trinity River in this edition of Body Bags.

Transcription highlights
00:20.72 Introduction of the case of Audrii Cunningham

01:54.67 Audrii's body tied to rock

03:57.40 Suspect was supposed to drive Audrii to bus stop05:50.16 Audrii was found in general area where her backpack was found

08:31.50 Officials had to ask for river flow to be reduced

12:08.84 Different groups have to share credit in finding Audrii

15:55.43 How will they figure out what McDougal did?

20:14.33 Investigators have not told us the condition of Audrii's body

24:14.42 Discussion of what may have happened to Audrii

28:09.19 Discussion of the company we keep, did her dad know what kind of criminal McDougal is

33:50.15 Talk about how her body may been like a kite on a string

38:07.95 Discussion about DNA under fingernails of Audrii

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Man Beats Girlfriend to Death, Drops Sofa on Her Body and Sleeps

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Annabel Meenan was only 21, but she had been romantically involved with 33-year-old Leroy Brahm since she was in high school.

Their relationship was filled with abuse but on the final night of her life, video cameras placed around the home recorded every hit with a fist and kick with a foot. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will break down what happened when Leroy Brahm beat his girlfriend unconscious, dropped a couch on top of her, then laid down on the couch and went to sleep as the weight slowly crushed Annabel.

Transcript Highlights

00:01:42 Discussion of age

00:03:00 Talk about Annabel

00:06:07 Victim had sofa dropped on her

00:09:24 Talk about cameras recorded every punch

00:13:38 Discuss the cameras everywhere

00:18:51 Talk about contusions

00:21:36 Discuss injuries suffered by the attacker

00:23:54 Talk about evidence all over the house

00:28:38 Discussion of ruling death a heart attack

00:32:23 Surveillance cameras record everything

00:35:37 Discuss domestic abuser calls 911

00:37:23 Talk about Annabel is gone too young

00:38:50 Domestic Abuse Hotline

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The tragic life of Lacey Fletcher, the woman who melted into the couch

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Lacey Fletcher was on the volleyball team when she is in 9th grade, and she looks like any other healthy teen. But her parents say she is "on the spectrum" and take her out of school and take her home. For the next 20 years, they don't take their daughter to the doctor, they don't do anything with her until she becomes totally non-verbal. For the last 12 years of her life she didn't move from her spot on the couch, she slept in her spot, she ate in her spot, she went to the bathroom in her spot, and it was rarely cleaned. Lacey Fletcher dies at 36, after withstanding years of pain and suffering. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look behind the sofa to answer the questions about the woman who melted into the couch.

Transcript Highlights

00:02:40Talking about melting

00:06:22 Talk about smell of urine, feces, nothing cleaned

00:09:46 Talk about staying in same spot for years

00:12:46 Discussion of healthy and active to dead on the couch

00:15:14 Talk about Lacey Fletcher on the couch 20 years

00:19:25 Discuss bed sores joining with other bed sores

00:23:15 Talk about chronic bone infection

00:27:17 Describing her condition at 36-years-old

00:31:10 Discussion of weight as Lacey Fletcher weighed 96 pounds

00:34:53 Talk about maggots in her body

00:38:56 How did Lacey Fletcher get covid?

00:42:01 Discussion – she is non-verbal, always in pain, and trapped

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Missing 2-years before anyone looked; what happened to Harmony Montgomery?

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Harmony Montgomery was missing for two years before anyone looked for her. Police began looking for a 7-year-old girl and soon realized they might really be looking for remains of a 5-year-old girl. She is still among the missing but presumed dead. Her father is on trial for her murder. Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they investigate the heartbreaking story of a little girl who never had a chance, and the forensics that just might get justice for her yet.

Transcript Highlights

01:34.45 Joe talks about memory

04:22.26 Discussion of years since Harmony has been seen

07:22.44 Talk about Harmony, looked nervous

10:09.25 Harmony was never enrolled in school

14:36.89 Discussion of police find Harmony's Dad

20:32.13 Talk about moment of clarity

25:22.45 Discussion of what really happened to Harmony

31:02.25 Discussion of waiting 2 years to call about child

35:18.87 Discussion about life lived in a car

38:25.26 Talk about neither adult checking on Harmony

43:49.54 Discussion of carrying Harmony

45:43.17 Finally went too far, hit too hard

50:51.68 Discussion perfect hiding spot was found

54:25.15 Discussion about how body is stored

59:33.43 Talk about using bathtub for dismemberment

59:19.23 Discussion of what might be found of Harmony

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SHOCK! The Things Left Behind

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

The new owners of a house in Colorado are pleasantly surprised to find the previous owners left behind a working freezer in the garage. Pleasure turns to horror as they begin removing bags of frozen meat, and find a human head and hands! Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will explain what it will take to solve the mystery.

Transcript Highlights

00:01:27Talk about gruesome discovery

00:02:05 Discussion of yard sale

00:02:58 Talk about hoarder

00:04:10 Talk about free working freezer

00:07:36 Discussion of frozen head

00:09:23 Talk about getting more than you bargained for

00:11:21Discussion of calling 911

00:14:27Discussion about dismemberment show

00:18:17 Talk about previous homeowners

00:21:23Discussion about finding the rest of the body

00:24:28 Neighborhood people talk about coroner on site

00:27:49 Discussion about all the items that left the area

C00:30:47Discussion of wrapping the head

00:33:51Talk about investigation of body parts

00:37:43 Discussion about freezer slowing decomposition

00:39:25 We're going to need to follow up on this case.

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Online Life-Real Life Murder: The Death of Kat West

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Jeff and Kat West are a typical American couple living just south of Birmingham Alabama. They have a 12-year-old daughter, Jeff works in security, Kat is a stay at home mom, but she has developed a very successful online business, in adult entertainment. She posts sexy photos on multiple sites and has her own pay site that provides even more adult photos. Jeff often takes the photos for his wife, and she is becoming quite popular online. Everything seems fine when Jeff and Kat go out for date night, photos of the couple in a store that evening show them lovingly touching one another. How is it possible that the next morning as the sun comes up, Kat West's lifeless body is found laying out in the front yard of her house with a bottle of absinthe placed on her broken phone right next to her posed body. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take you through the last night in the life of Kat West.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00:05 Origin of things

00:01:46 Talk about a different kind of fairy

00:02:29 Discussion of life

00:03:16 Talk about very special drink

00:05:59 Discussion setting up a scene

00:10:54 Talk about date night

00:12:50 Discussion strong alcohol

00:16:48 Talk about Jeff and Kat playful at store

00:19:42 Discussion of intimate photos, sharing

00:22:32 Talk theory Jeff West beat his wife

00:25:32 Discussion of Stalkers

00:29:37 Talk tiny details in investigation

00:34:02 Discussion of two primary spots of blood

00:38:58 Talk about holding bottle as weapon

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Abandoned in Concrete: Georgia's Baby Jane Doe

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

A road crew in south west Georgia finds on old console tv at an illegal dumpsite on the side of a country highway. As they try to move the tv, the workers find a suitcase inside, and it is too heavy to just be filled with clothes. As they open the suitcase they open up a mystery that will last decades. Inside the suitcase is cement, and poking out of the cement, the body of a small child. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will help tell the story of Baby Jane Doe, the girl thrown away like garbage, and the people who spent 35-years trying to find out her name.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00:37 Trash Dump off the side of road

00:01:46 Talk about abandoned child

00:02:29 Discussion of life

00:03:16 Talk about the case, started in 1988

00:05:59 Discussion of area

00:10:54 Talk about getting body out of cement

00:13:30 Discussion of cement wouldn’t encase everything

00:16:48 Talk about mixing concrete and body

00:19:42 Evidence at scene leads to home

00:22:32 Talk about body breaking down in cement

00:25:32 Discussion of investigators

00:28:37 Talk about technology catching up

00:31:02 This case hasn’t been to trial yet

00:33:58 Talk about Genetic Genealogy

00:35:39 Discussion can there be justice

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Humane Death or Dangerous Experiment: Nitrogen Gas Execution tried for first time

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will tell the story of a murder and why the man convicted of the murder will be put to death in a very unique way.

Kenneth Eugene Smith was convicted of the 1988 murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Sennett. Pastor Charles Sennett recruited Billy Gray Williams to kill his wife Elizabeth and Williams hired John Forrest Parker and Kenneth Eugene Smith to carry out the murder. A week after the murder, Charles Sennett confessed to his family and then shot himself in the head.

Williams, Parker, and Smith were arrested, charged and convicted. Williams was sentenced to life and died in prison in 2020. Parker and Smith were sentenced to death. Parker was executed by lethal injection in 2010. Smith was scheduled to be executed in November of 2022 but the execution team was unable to connect the intravenous lines before time ran out.

After much debate, the state agreed not to try lethal injection again on Smith but would instead use a method of execution: Nitrogen Hypoxia. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain what it is and why it is being tried for the first time...ever.

Transcript Highlights

00:02:29 Joe talks about travel

00:05:55 Talk Investigation of murder

00:06:41 Talk about experience as death investigator

00:08:37 Discuss sharing PTSD

00:12:18 Talk about nitrogen

00:14:21 Discussion Death Penalty

00:18:56 Talk about execution used to be public

00:21:30 Discussion about new method

00:23:13 Talk about the Crime

00:25:51 Talk Murder-for-Hire plot

00:27:31 Discussion public execution

00:30:24 Talk about the debate to come

00:35:17 Discussion Is there a “best way” to kill somebody

00:38:22 Talk about assisted suicide

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Mystery Deepens as 4 KC Fans Watch Game, 3 Die "Frozen" in Backyard While Friend Sleeps Warm Inside

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

What really happened when four lifelong friends gathered to watch their Chiefs play the Chargers?

After the game, one guy goes to sleep inside and his three friends go outside and die in the backyard. And for two days their bodies lay frozen while their friend continues to sleep inside, ignoring calls and texts from friends and family worried about their loved ones.

And WHY are the police called to do a "welfare check" when there are three dead men in the backyard?

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack cover the story inside and out to find out what happened when four friends gather to cheer for their favorite team, and three end up dead in the backyard.

Transcript Highlights

00:02:29 Joe shares childhood memories

00:05:55 Talk Saints Football

00:06:41 Discussion watching football

00:08:37 Discuss NFL fans

00:12:18 Talk about friends

00:14:21 Discussion weather, first night not cold

00:18:56 Talk about working multiple deaths

00:21:30 Discussion about “mystery person”

00:23:13 Discuss medical issue, hypothermia

00:25:51 Talk is it possible to sleep 48 hours?

00:27:31 Discussion of how come they guys didn’t break-in?

00:31:21 Talk about calling it a “welfare check”

00:35:17 Discussion Jordan Willis is brilliant scientist

00:40:35 Talk Jordan Willis talks to police without lawyer

00:45:21 Discussion of Fentanyl

48:30.84 No Trauma, no gunshots, 3 dead

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Missing Mom Murder Trial: Blood Evidence Could Prove She's Not Missing

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

When Connecticut mother-of-5 Jennifer Dulos suddenly vanished, the world stopped to look. While the world was looking for the missing mom, her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, drove around town dropping off bags of trash in public trash bins. Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they break down the story of the missing mom and the people who betrayed her.

Transcript Highlights

00:02:29 Joe shares childhood memories

00:05:55 Talk about family

00:06:41 Discussion of Troconis trial

00:08:37 Discussion of Dulos marriage

00:12:18 Discussion of what the Nanny notices

00:14:21 Talk about paper towels used to clean

00:18:56 Talk about police body cam footage

00:21:30 Discussion of testimony

00:23:13 Talk about several types of tests

00:25:51 Talk about stains and what they mean

00:27:31 Discussion of blood drops

00:29:42 Description of different cast-off blood trails

00:31:21 Joe talks about blood

00:35:17 Discussion about determining death

00:40:35 Talk about blood and DNA locations

00:45:21 Discussion of amount of blood

00:50:38 Joe talks about suicide

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Alec Baldwin Indicted on Manslaughter Charge: What really happened on the set of "Rust"

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Alec Baldwin has been indicted again for Involuntary Manslaughter. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will pull back the curtain on the "Rust" movie set and explain what really happened, who is lying, and will there ever be justice. Should somebody go to jail, or was it a horrible accident? Listen and decide for yourself.

Transcript Highlights

00:01:29 Describing the shooting location

00:04:45 Talk about the victims

00:05:31 Discussion of responsibility on set

00:08:37 Joe talks about being a producer

00:11:08 Talk about armorer

00:13:45 Discussion Alec Baldwin charged

00:15:38 Joe breaks down angles of shot

00:21:00 Talk about producer role on set

00:22:44 Dave tells story about loaded gun in house

00:24:59 Discussion of handling a gun

00:27:21 Talk about Baldwin interview about shooting

00:29:24 Joe talks forensic science ballistics

00:31:48 Discussion of accountability

00:34:07 Talk about shooting cases

00:40:48 Joe talks about the 44 Magnum

00:45:37 Description of shooting of Brandon Lee

00:48:18 Discussion about handling firearms on set

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Sweet Grandmother Has Arm Torn Off During Carjacking, But Where is the Blood? The Horrifying Death of Linda Frickey

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

The last thing Linda Frickey heard as she lay beaten, bruised, with her arm ripped off her body, was a friendly voice saying, "we'll pray for you,"

The 73-year-old woman was the victim of a carjacking that was pre-planned by a group of 4 thugs in New Orleans, the oldest only 17 years old. Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they go behind the headlines on the story of a loving grandmother that died in a gruesome way, with her arm torn off her body. But witnesses ask; Where's the blood?

Transcript Highlights

00:01:29 Talk about Grandmothers

00:04:45 Joe doesn’t want his hometown tarnished

00:05:31 Discussion about Carjacking

00:08:37 Talk about 18-year-old taking a life

00:10:20 Joe talks about living in this area of NOLA

00:11:08 Discussion about witnesses

00:13:45 Talk about ringleader John Honore

00:15:38 Talk about being dragged two blocks

00:21:00 Talk about criminals attacked woman from behind

00:22:44 Discussion of being stuck, drug down the block

00:24:59 Discussion having arm ripped off your body

00:27:21 Talk about how witness covered her body

00:29:24 Discussion of damage done to police officer drug in similar way

00:31:48 Talk about the last thing Mrs. Frickey heard was “we’re praying for you

00:34:07 Discussion of what happened to the blood?

00:40:48 Talk about determining cause of death

00:45:37 Talk about how Mrs. Frickey was beaten in car, then drug down street

00:48:18 Discussion about CCTV cameras

00:49:44 Suspect has been sentenced to prison

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Murder or Suicide? The Death of Jeffrey Epstein

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will break down the death of Jeffrey Epstein. Did Jeffrey Epstein commit suicide, or was he murdered?

Transcript Highlights

00:01:17 Joe hears story about where the meanest men in America live

00:04:47 Joseph Scott Morgan talks about covering Epstein death

00:08:23 Discuss first attack/suicide attempt

00:11:45 Talk about unusual circumstances

00:14:37 Discuss conflicting statements about noose

000:17:15 Talk about Epstein allowed unmonitored phone call

00:18:23 Discuss no cellmate to attack or stop suicide

00:20:33 Talk about two nooses in the cell

00:22:42 Discussion of cell condition and contents

00:25:49 Talk about July 23rd event

00:29:25 Discuss observing body at time of death

00:32:25 Talk about putting hospital gown on Epstein

00:34:03 Mark Epstein told his brother may have been dead 2 hours or more

00:37:40 Talk about Epstein body wheeled into hospital

00:40:34 Discussion of hyoid bone

00:42:05 Discuss facts of the body at time of death

00:44:24 Discuss agreement overturned regarding suicide

00:45:14 Talk about autopsy, who was present

00:47:00 Discuss distribution of force

00:48:16 Mentions that noose wasn't collected for evidence.

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Testimony from Beyond the Grave: The Suspicious Death of Maria Muñoz

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

When a panicked husband calls 911 for help saying his wife has overdosed the first officer on the scene notices some pretty big red flags.

The forensics tell the story of what killed Maria Munoz, but Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will dig deeper to find out what really happened to a Texas mom with a penchant for writing in her journal, about everything.

Transcript Highlights

00:01:29 Talk about nurses, great investigators

00:03:21 Discussion of body cam

00:04:45 Talk about scene, shadows

00:05:31 Talk about what police expect based on 911 call

00:06:55 Discussion of relationship

00:08:37 Talk about surgery, different duties

00:10:20 Talk about steroid use

00:11:08 Talk about husband being suspicious

00:12:06 Discussion of red flags

00:13:45 Talk about husband pockets pill bottle

00:15:38 Talk about medicine bottle on scene

00:21:00 Talk about medical pro letting police officer take over cpr

00:22:44 Discussion of husband talking to police

00:24:59 Discussion of Police body cam

00:27:21 Talk about how to find needle hole in arm

00:29:24 Discussion of suspect

00:31:48 Talk about scenes involving drugs

00:34:07 Discussion of home dynamics

00:35:55 Discussion of medical careers

00:40:48 Talk about tox screen

00:43:52 Discussion of toxicology report

00:45:37 Talk about how drugs were used

00:48:18 Discussion about Maria diary entries

00:49:44 Diary and Toxicology gave jury no choice

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Couple expecting baby shot to death at Christmas: The Life and Death of Savanah Soto and Matthew Guerra

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Savanah Soto, 18, and her boyfriend Matthew Guerra, 22, are reported missing the day before Savanah is to have labor induced for their baby. Their car is found, and Savanah is found dead in the front passenger seat with Matthew shot to death in the back seat.On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the truth from fiction in the saddest story from what should be the happiest of times.

Transcript Highlights

00:01:54 Talk about having a child

00:03:23 Talk about responsibility

00:05:53 Discussion of age of victims

00:07:49 Talk about family dynamic

00:09:24 Discussion about safety

00:12:53 Talk about location of bodies in the car

00:14:33 Discussion of Matthew being drug into back seat

00:16:12 Discussion of what long hair means to crime scene

00:18:42 Talk about where victims were murdered

00:19:46 Windows in the kia are dark

00:22:01 What is being said between truck driver and kia?

00:23:48 Discussion of people traveling with body in car

00:25:52 Baby is autopsied too

00:26:59Talk about Baby birth after death

00:28:23 Talk about Matthew identified quickly

00:32:36 Kia Optima located

00:34:58 Phone Pings will help find more cameras

00:35:55 Talk about bad cameras, great picture of suspects

00:37:01 Discussion of DNA that will likely be found

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The House Is Gone: The Idaho Student Murders

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

The Idaho house where Madison Mogen , Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were murdered has been demolished. Prosecution and Defense were both in agreement about the resident being demolished before the trial.

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they discuss what might be missed and who might be helped by the biggest pieced of evidence being destroyed.

Transcript Highlights

00:01:08 Talk about why the odd shaped home had to come down

00:02:18 Discussion about destroying house before trial

00:03:47 Compare being able to visit the home of Lizzie Borden

00:05:47 Discussion of taking down horrible crime scenes

00:08:33 Comparing evidence like knife to house, would a picture of knife be sufficient

00:09:06 Discussion of both sides in agreement in taking building down

00:11:28 Talk about how to tell if someone could hear noise from top to bottom of house

00:13:36 Discussion of first-person perspective

00:15:48 Discussion of Parkland scene

00:17:42 Talk about taking jury to crime scene

00:19:26 Discussion of house layout – would killer have to be familiar

00:20:39 Talk about moving around rooms in the dark

00:21:53 Discussion about seeing size of rooms and 'ear' witness

00:24:15 Talk about effective documentation

00:26:23 Discussion about where suspect entered home

00:27:07 Discussion about room size

00:29:51 Talk about dynamic distribution of blood, being able to see it in context

00:31:32 Discussion of Jeffrey MacDonald case, jury saw murder scene in house

00:32:4 Talk about without house, no way to know where sound would go

00:33:51 Discussion comparing Gettysburg site to a house

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Hot Sauce on Bread For Dinner, Ice Baths For Punishment: The Shocking life and death of Disabled Teen Timothy Ferguson

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Timothy Ferguson's mother calls police. Her son is unresponsive. Timothy Ferguson is also 15-years-old weighing just 69 pounds when he died of malnutrition and hypothermia.

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they detail -Timothy Ferguson's painful life at the hands of his evil mother and brother. The teen lives on a diet of water and bread soaked in hot sauce, followed by ice baths.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00 Joseph Scott Morgan shares memories of Grandmother cooking chicken

00:04:15 Discussion of Timothy Ferguson, 15, starved to death by his mother

00:05:37 Discussion of food being used as mechanism for torture

00:06:52 Talk about Shanda Vander Ark fled Oklahoma with children

00:08:56 Explanation of how using food as a ‘kindness’

00:11:05 Talk about dark choices made by Shanda Vander Ark regarding her son

00:13:05 Discussion of Timothy’s older brother Paul being involved in the abuse

00:14:51 Joseph Scott Morgan describes “impact: injury – slapped, punched.

00:15:28 Talk about how common that one child will be chosen for abuse while other siblings abuse victim as well

00:16:14 Discussion about abuse, malnutrition impossible to hide

00:17:15 How to determine how long Timothy was abused

00:18:35 Description - malnutrition can “stunt growth”.

00:20:40 Discussion of Shanda Vander Ark Defense, claims she had PTSD

00:21:51 Joseph Scott Morgan explains how Timothy Ferguson was digesting his own fat cells due to malnutrition

00:22:58 Timothy Ferguson’s body already compromised

00:26:41 Timothy Ferguson was given bread and water, and hot sauce for torture

00:27:56 Talk about hot sauce “Carolina Reaper” being placed on bread for Ferguson to eat

00:29:00 Discussion of Timothy Ferguson being kept in tiny room under stairs, developing bed sores

00:30:56 Description of Timothy Ferguson breathing out of his mouth like fish out of water

00:32:09 Discussion of Ice Bath’s used to punish Timothy Ferguson

00:33:28 Timothy Ferguson never recovered from last Ice Bath, cause of death – hypothermia and malnutrition

00:36:02 Discussion of food – mother chained refrigerator and cabinets in kitchen

00:38:00 Verdict - Shanda Vander Ark, guilty of murder, son Paul guilty of Child Abuse

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The New Epidemic: Fentanyl

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000

The opioid crisis has brought death and devastation to families all over the world and fentanyl has only made things worse. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will take a close look at three very different cases involving fentanyl that all have the same end result, death. A wife allegedly uses fentanyl as a weapon to kill her husband, a 20-year-old faces second-degree murder for giving a teen girl a pill with fentanyl, and a toddler is dead when he comes into contact with fentanyl in his daycare.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00 Discussion: To be free from pain.

00:01:44 Talk about from Tylenol to Fentanyl

00:02:53 Discussion of population desiring to be free from pain, self-medicating

00:04:43 Talk about the opioid crisis

00:07:28 Discussion about the strength of fentanyl

00:10:16 Joe points out how fentanyl can be pressed into other drugs

00:11:51 Description of what an overdose from opioid looks like

00:13:01 Discussing three fentanyl related cases today; Kouri Richins, NYC daycare, and 15-year-old dead from pill

00:14:38 Talk about murder charge in death of 15-year-old girl

00:16:46 Discussion of coroner ruling drug overdose as a “homicide”

00:18:35 Talk about California case, 15-year-old dies from fentanyl

00:22:35 Discussion of pills made in a garage rather than a laboratory

00:23:43 Talk about a 22-month-old child in a daycare exposed to fentanyl

00:26:49 Discussion of “binders” used in making the pills

00:28:48 Description of toddlers in daycare with fentanyl kept directly underneath “nap mats”

00:30:58 Fentanyl used as weapon, tasteless, odorless

00:32:36 Talk about Kouri Richins alleged attempts to poison husband

00:34:33 How to determine if drug was taken as recreation or used as weapon

00:36:01 Discussion of opioid deaths

00:38:36 Talk about tox screen

00:40:28 Discussion of Fentanyl and therapeutic levels

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The unimaginable case of Francisca Monteiro-Balla

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000

When Camille Balla calls a coworker and says "I think I killed my mother", the coworker calls 911 on her way to Balla's mother's house. Police find a scene straight out of a horror movie as the follow a blood splatter trail leading to the body of Francisca Monteiro-Balla. Checking the body for vitals an officer notices something on a box a few feet away. It isn't something anyone expects to see, two eyeballs, sitting on a box, appearing to watch the officers as they try to save the life of Francisca Monteiro-Balla.

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they take a close-up look at a case that is just as scary and strange at the beginning as it is in the end.

Transcript Highlights

00:01:26 Joseph Scott Morgan compares Lewis Powell screaming “I am Mad” to
Camille Balla screaming “I am a murderer”

00:02:50 Talk about Police arrive to scene and find woman’s eyes removed

00:04:05 Dave Mack breaks down story of Camille Balla calls co-worker and tells her “I think I killed my mother”

00:06:12 Talk about County Jail versus prison

00:08:05 Discussion about Camille Balla screaming “I’m a murderer”

00:10:08 Discussion of bloody crime scene, eyeballs removed from victim, placed on cardboard box

00:11:25 Describing difference between blood “spatter” and blood “splatter”

00:13:46 Discussion about victim’s injuries

00:16:01 Talk about the fight between mother and daughter, and eyeballs removed from victim

00:17:56 Joe describes removal of eyeball

00:20:37 Discussion of suspect removing eyes from the front

00:22:43 Talk about Camille Balla claims to have smoked marijuana laced with Flocka prior to attack on her mother

00:26:12 Discussion of charges being reduced from First-Degree Murder to Manslaughter

00:28:34 Talk about broken glass around scene, blood from perpetrator and victim co-mingled making thing forensically more complicated

00:29:06 Camille Balla pleaded guilty to manslaughter, sentenced to 15-years in prison followed by 15-years on probation.

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The Faceless Frozen Body in the Ditch: The Ilene Gowan Story

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000

An adult female body is found outside of Council Bluffs city limits. The body was found with bruises all over her body, a large laceration on her head, her body was found frozen to the ground. Also, her face is missing. The body is of a woman who has been missing for 11 days, 60-year-old Ilene Gowan. Investigators will use everything at their disposal to determine how the grandmother ended up dead in a ditch without her face, and who is responsible for her death.

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they breakdown a case that includes forensics of a frozen body as well as the latest video surveillance tools that creates a timeline that builds a map leading right to the killer.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:06 Joseph Scott Morgan talks about scene of crime

00:02:42 Victim 60-year-old woman, without a face

00:04:00 Talk about victim and suspect relationship

00:06:22 Brammer does not report girlfriend missing

00:07:44 Talk about remains being discarded like trash

00:09:48 Discussion about alcohol and relationships

00:11:21 Victim is missing for 11 days

00:12:49 Talk about remains still frozen at autopsy

00:16:46 Discussion of weather on decomposition

00:18:32 Talk about arriving to scene of crime

00:22:54 Discussion about Pathologist in the field

00:24:01 Victim face is missing

00:27:19 Timeline: victim last seen on 13, reported missing on 15th

00:30:37 Discussion of Post-Mortem and Anti-Mortem

00:31:36 Video evidence of Brammer in truck with victim

00:33:34 Discussion of victim cause of death

00:34:39 Talk about wounds

00:37:10 Discussion about Dr. Michael Baden brought in for second opinion

00:38:50 Brammer deposits $1,500 in his bank account day Ilene is reported missing

00:39:46 Discussion about face missing due to animal life

00:41:46 Brammer has truck crushed and shredded

00:42:08 Brammer was found guilty of second-degree murder, abuse of a corpse, and second-degree theft.

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Gone Without A Trace - Where are Joey and Jaclyn?

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000

In Battle Creek, Michigan, Chad Allen Reed is the owner of a property. He lives on the bottom floor and rents out the top floor. He complains to everyone about the couple renting his upstairs, Joe Soule and Jaclyn Lepird are loud at night and Reed doesn't like it. When Joe and Jaclyn vanish, everyone is looking for them, except for Chad Allen Reed. He is too busy trying to hide what he has done. His property burns 5 times in 7 days but Chad Allen Reed is being haunted by the smell. Two bodies, wrapped in plastic, hidden in the back of a pickup truck. When nobody solves the mystery of what happened to Joe Soule and Jaclyn Lepird, Chad Allen Reed calls the tip line himself, and tells them what happened!

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the story of the Murdering Landlord and find out what evidence is left behind when two people are murdered on grass in a yard.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:07 Joseph Scott Morgan shares a renting nightmare

00:04:23 discussion of landlord complaining about tenant

00:05:20 Joe talks about trauma and evidence left behind at the scene

00:07:58 Landlord confronted tenants over noise

00:10:37 Discussion of the matter of cutting and bludgeoning someone

00:12:25 Talk about postmortem interval

00:13:23 Chad Allen Read shoots Joe Soule, shoots Jaclyn Lepird in the back

00:15:38 Discussion about Read beating Lepird with a pipe

00:16:37 Joe explains “Bullet Wipe”

00:18:32 Discussion about evidence left in yard

00:19:42 Talk about 2 people missing

00:21:51 Evidence left behind by 2 victims

00:23:31 Explanation of how bodies are examined in morgue

00:25:44 Discussion about perpetrators not putting distance between themselves and their victims

00:27:49 Bodies wrapped in plastic create more evidence

00:29:18 Talk about 5 fires in 7 days

00:30:13 Chad Allen Read calls the tipline himself

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Married Couple Missing 3 Weeks, The Torture death of the Josephs

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Joseph Scott Morgan takes you on a trip to Louisiana, and a young couple, tied up, with kettlebells tied to their feet, being driven up a high bridge, and pushed out at the apex, not to die from falling 10 stories, but to drown after the fall.

Join Joe Scott Morgan and Dave Mack for a show that stretches from Louisiana to Atlanta, a recording studio, a Walmart, a side hustle in prison, and great police work to bring to justice the evil that wants to be a star.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:46 Talk about Gravity = the dominant force in our life.

00:02:09 Talk about Gravity, leading up a bridge

00:03:13Discussion about murder by drowning

00:03:54 Talk about being In Louisiana.

00:05:21 the death of Lakeitha and Kenneth Joseph.

00:06:16 Couple missing three weeks

00:07:14 Talk about searching for missing couple

00:08:55 Discussion of levels of grief

00:11:52 Joe shares knowledge of the geography of the area

00:14:22 Talk about “prune” fingers as a child in pool

00:15:02 The lake is brackish, salt and fresh

00:17:14 Is it possible to determine how long a body has been in water?

000:20:58 Kenneth borrows a van, becomes big clue

00:24:37 Police work: Kettle Bells branded by golds gym, only at Walmart

00:25:46 How long does it take for a body to come to surface

00:28:42 Discussion about rope

00:30:12 Talk about Lakeitha leg being broken

00:31:31 Discussion of kettle bells

00:35:19 Talk about bodies in water

00:36:40 Borrowed van turns up in Atlanta

00:37:44 Discussion about Rapper managed by ex-convict

00:39:44 Prison Guard in relationship with prisoner

00:41:56 Murdered for being a witness

00:43:06 Talk about worst way to die

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Girl missing 173 days, found less than 100 feet from home

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Joseph Scott Morgan breaks down the case of the teen girl hidden away in a homemade coffin and how difficult it will be to get the evidence to determine what really caused her death. Dave Mack joins in on the search for facts, and Valerie Tindall.

Transcript

00:01:02 Discussion of 173 days without knowing location of your child

00:02:26 Valerie Tindall, 17, and missing

00:03:29 Mother said Patrick Scott acted like jealous boyfriend

00:04:21 Discussion of age difference

00:06:55 Valerie Tindall is missing

00:10:00 Talk about Forensic Anthropology

00:11:28 Disturbed areas of soil in backyard

00:12:30 17-year-old girl bonds with 59-year-old man, odd

00:13:22 What does FBI mean to a case

00:14:32 The neighbor Valerie has “bond” with charged with lying to police

00:16:03 Discussion of providing false hope to lure out suspect

00:17:24 Investigators wonder if someone is helping her stay gone

00:18:29 Victim has been missing since June

00:22:24 Bright Orange fingernail polish Valerie Tindall was wearing

00:23:29 Taking down a structure, burning, why?

00:27:17 Talk about the VHS tapes found in box

00:29:11 Discussion of murder weapon, a belt

00:30:56 Suspect claims he is the victim?

00:32:29 Discussion about condition of the body

00:33:39 Why did the suspect dig holes in his property?

00:35:17 Talk about the story from the suspect does not make sense

00:36:35 Some evidence might have been lost

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Peaceful Commune to Violent Murder: The Ezra Ralston Story

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Ezra Ralston, 29, moves in with his grandparents on their beautiful property on the water in the Pacific Northwest, and repays their love and kindness by coming up with a plan to create a commune on his grandparents property. The only thing he needs to do is kill his grandparents and steal their property to make his dreams come true.

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they take an in-depth look at death, fire, and the lies of Ezra Ralston on this episode of Body Bags.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:19 Joe Talks about finding save place for your family

00:01:18 Grandparents welcome 29-year-old grandson

00:02:15 Discussion about early 70s

00:03:47 Talk about the murder of Grandparents

00:04:46 Discussion of fire and explosion

00:06:16 Talk about arson, murder, investigation

00:09:02 Discussion about origin of fire in the house

00:11:05 Joe shares insight into recurring nightmare

00:13:09 Talk about finding the bodies of Joanna Gormley and Ted Ralston.

00:17:40 Discussion about gasoline used in fire

00:19:14 Joe explains assessing the bodies

00:23:02 Explaining what happens working a fire scene

00:24:54 Discussion of when to examine bodies

00:26:36 Looking around a fire scene is very confusing

00:27:47 Talk about the victims' wounds

00:32:03 Talk about plan to kill victims in their sleep

00:35:45 Ezra Ralston being encouraged by girlfriend

00:37:04 Discussion of using bleach to get rid of evidence

00:39:15 Fire creates more evidence

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Oscar Pistorius: Superhero 'Blade Runner' to Calculated Murderer

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Oscar Pistorius became famous for not allowing a handicap to stand in his way of track and field success.

After becoming a Paralympic Champion, he fought his way through the courts to be allowed to compete in non-disabled competitions. In 2012, he competed in the Summer Olympics in London and became one of the most famous people in the world, earning the nickname "Blade Runner" for the prosthetic legs he uses to run.

Less than six months after the Olympic Games, Pistorius claims he hears a noise in the middle of the night and thinks someone is breaking in, but what happens next lands him in jail, charged with murder!

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they break down the case of Oscar Pistorius. Did he kill his girlfriend in cold blood or was it a horrible mistake?

Transcript Highlights:

00:01:11 Oscar Pistorius getting out of prison

00:03:11 Pistorius fought to compete in non-disabled competition

00:04:02 Discussion of who Oscar Pistorius is and his fame at the time of this incident

00:06:58 Discussion of legs being amputated at 11 months old

00:10:56 How to figure out directionality of weapons that are fired

00:12:40 Pistorius and Steenkamp had dated only 90 days

00:13:45 Body Bags and Domestic Disputes

00:14:52 Discussion of waking up, hearing something

00:16:05 Pistorius claims he heard things, overcome with fear

00:17:37 Talk about Pistorius and guns

00:19:15 What happens when victim is in bathroom?

00:21:51 He claims that he shot her after he had put his legs on.

00:22:06 Story told by Pistorius doesn’t match facts

00:24:12 Discussion of victim being shot through the door

00:25:57 Discussion of stomach contents of victim

00:26:15 Time of morning, 3:19am

00:26:41Said there were four quick shots.

00:28:14 Did he retrieve his legs at this point in time and come back to?

00:29:34 Talk about scene, towels, debris, trying to stop bleeding

00:30:29 Discussion of the Blades giving him and advantage

000:31:33 Pistorius remains on scene, in kitchen, should have been in back of squad car

00:32:26 Three components in gunshot residue. We look for antimony, we look for barium and we look for lead.

00:33:43 Talk about prosthetics and if he had them on

00:34:38 Discussion about suspect is not in charge of investigation

00:35:35 Pistorius claims he kept her airway open with his fingers

00:36:35.Pistorius is scheduled to be released from custody in January of 2024

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Sins of the Father: The Death of Dylan Redwine

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they break down a story that took years to finish and includes blood, sex, knives, and bones.