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In this episode of Body Bags, hosts Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack unravel the harrowing and complex case of Cassidy Rainwater. They discuss the crime scene, the intense investigation involving local law enforcement and the FBI, the critical role of digital forensics in modern investigations, and how vital evidence found on a suspect's phone leads them to a chilling exploration of the dark web.
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Time-codes:
00:00 - Introduction.
01:15 - Cassidy Rainwater.
03:10 - Dave Mack gives us some background and an overview of the case.
05:50 - The crime scene's location in a rural and isolated area in southwest Missouri.
07:00 - The importance of digital forensics in modern investigations, particularly with photographic evidence.
10:15 - Disturbing photos found on the suspects phone.
13:00 - Disturbing content circulation in the dark web and its potential connection to the case.
16:25 - A small-town sheriff's investigator being contacted by federal agents.
19:35 - Cassidy Rainwater was found in an image suspended from a gantry crane and eviscerated.
22:45 - What could have been the possible motive for the careful labeling and preservation of Cassidy's remains?
24:30 - The process of identifying butchering marks on bones and what these marks can tell us about the tools used.
27:40 - Why were the remains preserved with a date?
29:45 - The tools and techniques one might use to dismember a body.
31:15 - What are "deer coolers"?
33:20 - A current update on the case.
33:45 - Outro.
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Surveillance photos show the mother of teen murder suspect Aiden Fucci washing his clothes the day teen girl Tristyn Bailey was murdered. Crystal Smith was arrested and charged with tampering with evidence in connection to the girl's death -year-old's death. Fucci, 14, has been charged with Bailey’s Mother’s Day murder. Investigators believe he stabbed Bailey 114 times. The former classmates had grown up in the same neighborhood but it does not appear that Fucci targeted Bailey specifically, though friends later said Fucci claimed he would kill someone in the near future. Surveillance video appears to show the pair walking together early the morning of May 9. Fucci is later seen running, alone, from the same area. Teen Aiden Fucci pled guilty to Tristen Bailey's murder. Crystal Lane Bailey pleaded no contest to tampering with evidence. She was sentenced to 30 days and has now been released.
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Leslie Van Houten was 19 years old when she and other followers of Charles Manson brutally killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca inside their Los Angeles home.
Leno LaBianca had been stabbed 12 times with a knife and seven times with a carving fork. The fork stuck in his abdomen, and a kitchen knife in his throat. The word “war” had also been carved into his abdomen. Mrs. LaBianca had a total of 41 stab wounds on the front and back of her body.
Now after 53 years in custody, the convicted killer is free.
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Man obsessed with his ex-affair partner kills her husband. Woman disappears after move to new city with her boyfriend.
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Saturday night: Amber Spradlin finishes her shift at the Brickhouse Restaurant in Prestonsburg.
She leaves the restaurant with friends, Roy Kidd, and Dr. Mike McKinney. Dr. McKinney is a well-known dentist and also happens to be the owner of the Brickhouse Restaurant. They first head over to the Seasons Inn. A little while later, the trio decides to leave the inn. In the early morning hours of Sunday, they end up at the home of Dr. McKinney.
Just a few hours later, 911 is called, twice. Amber Spradlin has been stabbed eleven times in the head, neck and throat. Now almost a month later, no arrests have been made.
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Man sets elder on fire in random attack. Frustrated 7-Eleven employee batters customer.
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The family of a teen girl says she was sex trafficked...sold to a marine.
The girl was found in a barracks room at Camp Pendleton after going missing for 20 days. The 14-year-old's family says she was raped. An unidentified Marine was taken from the base in handcuffs by military police officers but has been released.
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Couple plots against and kills his child's mother. DUI suspect bites police dog back.
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A Georgia man heads outside to confront a trio of teens egging a home, but he ends up dead.
Police are calling the shooting the result of an ongoing "lover's quarrel." Sydney Maughon and Jeremy Munson, both 18, and 19-year-old McKenzie Davenport go to the home where Jonathan Gilbert is staying, planning to egg the home.
Jonathan Gilbert comes outside to confront the trio, who run back to their car and speed off. Gilbert continues after the car when Maughon grabbed a gun from the car and shot Gilbert multiple times. He was left dead in the middle of the road.
A witness gave investigators information linking the victim and the suspects.
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