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Join Joseph Scott Morgan every week as he explores a world that not many have had a chance to visit, the realm of death. Jo Scott will lead listeners on a journey through the blood soaked death scenes of America and then into the autopsy room to fully understand the science behind each case. Jo Scott is one America’s leading experts on applied forensics and is regularly featured on ‘Crime Stories with Nancy Grace’, ‘The Piketon Massacre’, Court TV and more.

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Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Sisters Missing 45 Years: SOLVED!

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