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It’s the morning of March 31st, 2020. A jogger finds Dr. Beth Potter and her husband Robin Carre shot in the head execution-style in University of Wisconsin Arboretum. Carre is pronounced dead on the scene by police while his wife, who was still alive, was rushed to the hospital where she also dies. Initially the police believed this to be a random homicide, but after reviewing video surveillance and GPS data, they redirect their sights on a potential suspect: Khari Sanford - the boyfriend of the victim’s adopted daughter Mimi.
In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the gruesome nature of this case, how the cooler temperature affected the crime scene (specifically, the blood), how conscious Dr. Potter was for the hours that she was alive after the attack and the motive of the suspect.
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Show Notes:
0:00 - Intro
1:32 - Background and overview of the case
5:21 - Did Robin Carre die from his gunshot wound/was it exacerbated from the cold temperature?
7:23 - Was Dr. Potter really still breathing when they found her?
9:34 - The significance of the area where you’re shot
12:01 - How do we know the victims were killed on the pathway where they were found?
16:15 - Would the cooler temperatures affect the state of the blood found at the crime scene?
18:26 - Shell casings
21:10 - Was Dr. Potter in and out of consciousness the whole night before she was found?
25:14 - Finding the suspect, Khari Sanford (the boyfriend of the victim’s daughter)
29:41 - Hearsay and the weight is has in a court of law
33:20 - Sanford and Mimi (the victim’s daughter) reportedly spoke of the parents having “bands of money” and that they were “rich”
36:35 - Wrap up and final details
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The verdict is in the murder of 21-year-old Regan Simmons Hancock, found by her mother lying face down in her bloody living room. Hancock nearly 8 months pregnant with her second child, has a large slice across her stomach and the baby is gone.
On a nearby roadway, a Texas State Trooper pulls over a car for speeding, and inside he finds Taylor Parker giving CPR to a newborn. Parker tells the trooper that she gave birth on the side of the road, but the baby isn't breathing.
Parker and the newborn are rushed to a hospital, where the baby died. It's also where Parker, who had seemingly just given birth, refused to be checked out by doctors.
Now, Parker knows her fate.
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Edward Goodwin went missing in June 2015. For more than two years, his family didn't know what happened to their son. Eventually, witnesses say Goodwin had been beaten to death, his body dumped into a pond.
The sheriff’s department partially drained the pond and found human hip bones, a femur bone, and some ribs. Edward Goodwin's body had been found, but the rest of his body was never recovered. This is despite assurances from law enforcement that the recovery would happen.
After waiting for authorities to act, Connie Goodwin, Edward's mom, took it upon herself to get her son back. The Goodwins rented a sump pump to drain the pond themselves.
As they started pumping the water out, bones could be seen sticking up through the water. The coroner was called and Edward Goodwin came home.
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Man uses his girlfriend's baby as a human shield against police. The back of a semi is no way to travel.
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Twenty-three children, teens, and young adults—mostly boys—were kidnapped and murdered from inner city Atlanta, between 1979 and 1981. At first, no one put together the links between the crimes, but soon the common details were noted, and Atlanta Police realized a serial killer stalked Atlanta.
One man became the prime suspect, Wayne Williams. Williams is charged and convicted in two of the killings but is believed to be responsible for at least 24 of the murders. Listen today as Nancy's guests, intimately involved in the case, lay out the evidence.
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Pervert teacher charged for seeing student out of class. These porch pirates do not take kindly to a family's attempt to ward them off.
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What was supposed to be a fun-filled weekend with his son, turned tragedic as a New York father is killed at his hotel. Paul Kutz, 53, died after a man opens fire in the hotel lobby.
Two men with reported gang ties have been arrested for the shooting, Roy Johnson Jr. and Devin Taylor. J
Johnson Jr. is believed to be the shooter. He’s now facing felony charges of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Taylor has been charged with felony second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
News reports say the men were homeless and staying at the hotel, although it’s unclear how long they had been there.
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Escaped convict heads straight for a bus station. Ohio man is warned against misusing 911.
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New interrogation videos show Keith Papini's shock at finding out his wife's kidnapping was actually a hoax. Keith Papini described himself to investigators as "the idiot husband that stayed around the whole time."
The 39-year-old mom was reported missing on November 2, and told investigators when she was found 22 days later that a pair of Hispanic women kidnapped her at gunpoint. Papini said her kidnappers abused her and then shoved her out of a car.
Papini was emaciated, her hair was cut shorter, and she had cuts and bruises all over her body, but prosecutors said she caused the injuries herself. The case was broken in 2020 when DNA led investigators to Papini’s ex, who told them she had been with him the entire time.
Federal prosecutors charged Papini with 34 counts of mail fraud and one count of making false statements. Papini accepted a plea deal but didn't explain why she created an elaborate kidnapping hoax, although she apologized for her actions. Since her arrest, Papini's husband has started divorce proceedings, and Sherri Papini soon begins her jail sentence.
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Pamela Hargan and her daughter Helen were found dead in their home in McLean, Virginia, the victims of an apparent murder-suicide, in July 2017. Once police investigated further, they realized that the crime scene had been staged and this was a homicide that they were looking at. Eventually, police narrowed it down to one prime suspect - Pamela’s oldest daughter Megan.
In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss how the police realized the crime scene was staged, the significance of where the gun was found, blood spatter patterns, how they came to suspect Pamela’s oldest daughter Megan, and much more.
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Show Notes:
0:00 - Intro
1:32 - Background and overview of the case
3:35 - How did the police know that the crime scene had been staged?
7:05 - The significance of the location where the gun was found
10:08 - The forces of gravity and homicide v. suicide investigations
15:45 - Gunshot residue
19:30 - Blood spatter pattern
25:20 - After recreating the crime scene, what did they discover about Pamela’s death?
29:55 - What happens when someone is shot in the head?
34:30 - Pamela’s oldest daughter, Megan, is charged with the murder
38:35 - Megan’s phone call to her boyfriend
40:00 - After the police realized the crime scene was staged, how did they start investigating the case as a homicide?
44:25 - Wrapping up and final details of the case
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