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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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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!
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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)
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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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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.
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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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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!!!!!!
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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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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.
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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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