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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

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 pentagram in her chest with a box cutter, kept 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. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the beating that brought about Colleen's death. And how Christa Pike saved of piece 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

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

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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More Evidence In The Execution of Jared Bridegan

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