July 25, 2023 • 29 mins
21-year-old Jasmeen Kaur is stalked and abducted from her workplace, subdued and placed into the boot of a car, transported along gravel roads to an isolated area, and buried alive by her ex-boyfriend, Tarikjot Singh. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack unravel the harrowing story of Jasmeen Kaur, a young nursing student, whose body is found in a shallow grave in South Australia's Flinders Ranges. Delving deep into the chilling facts, they highlight the disturbing acts leading to the crime captured by CCTV, the terror and uncertainty experienced by Jasmeen, and the signs of her desperate struggle while entombed. As they navigate the dark labyrinth of abusive relationships, police involvement, and the physical and psychological traumas endured by the victim, Joe Scott and Dave underscore the grave importance of recognizing and addressing signs of domestic violence.
Time-codes:
- [00:00:20] Joseph Scott Morgan opens the episode with a narrative about the importance of breath and introduces the topic of the episode, the horrific case of Jasmeen Kaur, a young woman who was buried alive.
- [00:01:32] - Joe Scott Morgan and Dave Mack elaborate on the eerie sensation of breathlessness, linking it to Jasmeen's case.
- [00:02:08] - Dave Mack dives into Jasmeen's background, her relationship withTarikjot Singh, his descent into obsession, and the complaint against Singh for stalking her, which led to a police warning.
- [00:05:12] - Mack postulates on how police intervention might have aggravated Singh, precipitating Jasmeen's abduction.
- [00:07:20] -The chilling recount of Singh's audacious kidnapping of Jasmeen weeks after the police complaint, including the CCTV footage and the haunting sequences leading to the crime.
- [00:09:00] - A grave discussion on the sheer horror of the act of burying someone alive. Joe Scott Morgan touches upon Jasmeen's deep understanding of breath, drawing from her career as a caretaker.
- [00:10:15] - An intriguing detour by Morgan about Australia's distinct geography with a description of the soil and terrain where the crime took place, and speculation on Kaur’s experience as she lay buried alive.
- [00:13:00] - Exploration of the physical bindings that added to Jasmeen's torment, the jarring journey she endured before the crime, and the fear she would have felt during her transport to the burial location.
- [00:17:29] - The hosts discuss the nonsensical theory of Jasmeen committing suicide and subsequently burying herself, and provide insight into the victim's relationship with Tarikjot Singh, the man who traumatized her and eventually caused her death.
- [00:19:40] - Joseph Scott Morgan explains the superficial cut on Jasmeen's throat, provides details about her's burial, discusses the crime scene, and explains how the location of the grave was discovered.
- [00:24:34] - Dave Mack seeks insights into Jasmeen's agonizing physical experience during her burial. Morgan underscores the irrefutable proof of Jasmeen's struggle, revealed through the presence of dirt in her respiratory system.
- [00:29:06] - Updates on Singh's legal situation are shared, followed by a call for awareness and action against domestic violence.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Body bags with Joseph Scott Morgan. Take a moment, take
a deep breath through your nose. Want that breath out.
A breath is something that most of us just take
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for granted. It's a wondrous thing. The ability to process oxygen,
the ability to derive life from our environment just by
simply breathing in and breathing out. That mechanism, that marvelous mechanism,
that thing that is occurring at a molecular level within
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our lungs to keep us sustained. Now, imagine just for
a moment that breath. Perhaps you've taken for granted entire life,
that ability to take in that which keeps us going,
is suddenly, as we say in the South cut Off, today,
(01:12):
we're going to talk about arguably one of the most
horrific ways to die. We're going to talk about a
young woman who was buried alive.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes me and Carr was being stalked and just one
month after reporting it to police, Carr was abducted and killed.
Australian police said Carr was bound with tape and cable ties,
blindfolded and superficial, non life threatening cuts were made to
her throat. She was then buried alive.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags Dave
mac Have you ever been punched in the gut and
have what they say, had the win knocked out of you.
I think it's happened to everybody. Maybe you fall on
your back, suddenly that breath is gone, and you get,
(02:05):
just for a moment, you get that sense of what
it would be like to not be able to catch
your breath. And I think that all of us can
understand that horrific terror that kind of grips us. But
you know the thing about it getting your breath knocked out.
For most of us, it's going to return. But in
this particular case today it didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Do. You have a young couple, Jasmine Korr and her
ex boyfriend. He is one of these guys that if
I can't have you, nobody will. And so when Jasmine
Korr broke up with Greek Jot Singh, he didn't take
it well. As a matter of fact, he was so
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bad about the breakup that he was following her around.
He was really creepy stalking. We don't know the depth
of stalking that went into it, but it is a
proper term to the point where jasmincorp at twenty one
years old. This is a woman that works at a
home for the aged Heart of Gold. Everybody loves her
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and this guy is terrorizing her. So she finally goes
to the police filed a complaint detailing all of the
things her ex boyfriend, mister Singh had been doing to her.
And it was enough. It was enough that police went
out and warned him about stalking her.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I just want to bring this to the surface. How
many of these cases, and I want to qualify this
by saying our case today it hit the international wires
and of course it made it here to America. This
just has really occurred very recently, and it was such
a horrific case that it kind of caught the attention
of everybody around the world. There's something about this behavior
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that seeing displayed that knows no geographic boundaries. Think about
how many cases over the years that you've covered and
that I've covered where we hear this same old refrain,
where you've got this terrified young woman who has been
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in a relationship, and maybe not even in a relationship.
It's a matter of perception on the part of some
psychopath out there that thinks they're in a relationship. You
do everything that you possibly can do. You go to
your family and say, hey, look, this guy won't leave
me alone. What do I do well, honey? The next
thing we're going to do is we're going to go
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the police, to the local constabulary and we're going to
ask them, you know, what do we do? Or to
the local prosecutor what do we do well? The best
we can do is get a restraining order. And of
course in this case, it just you know, it just
didn't it fell flat.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
More than fell flat. I think it actually pushed to
Wreak John Singh over the cliff, I mentioned that jas
Me and Core twenty one to Wreak John sing twenty one,
we've got young people that have been involved in a
relationship that finally got to the point where she said,
enough's enough. I can't handle you. Let's break up. Time
to see other people. Is not you, it's me. He
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didn't take it. He's terrorizing her to the point where
she goes to the police. When the police talked to him,
was lighting the fuse. That's all I could think of,
because what happened next Jerik John Singh made a plan.
I don't know the amount of time he spent planning it.
I don't know, but there was enough and we have
the CCTV cameras to actually track what he did, where
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he went, and all the things leading up to abducting
this woman. He said he loved Think about that, all
of these horrible things that are about to happen, this
guy claimed he loved her.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That's the thing about this. How do you express love?
It's often said that love and hatred are the are
just different sides of the same coin. But you know,
that doesn't quite get it, does it. You look at
Yasmin's parents, you look at those that love, you look
at those that look to her for comfort. You talked
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about the aged that she was taken care of. That
doesn't quite cut it, does it. That's not enough to
I don't know, find some kind of comfort in, some
kind of understanding in because at the end of the day,
she's at the total and complete mercy of someone who
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turns out to be a complete monster. In this particular case.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I'm wondering what she was going through at the moment
she sees him. Because she has gone to the police,
she has reported it, she has given them enough information
and evidence that they agree with her, they're going to
put a stop to him. She does all the right things,
and here he is showing up just a couple of weeks.
We're talking a very short period of time between the
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time that she reports him to police and he shows
up at her place of work and kidnaps her. Based
on some of the video evidence we have, we see
Sing driving around town and heading out of town, but
we see him in the driver's sept but there's nobody
in the passenger seat, and it appears that there's nobody
in the back seat. So what the thought is is
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that Sing kidnaps the woman he loves, Yasmin, and he
ties her hands with cable, he uses duct tape, and
he I think put her in the trunk of the car.
They're not even sure. But he blindfolded her, handcuffed her,
taped her up, put her in the car, and took
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off and she has no idea what's going to happen next.
As I mentioned, the CCTV camera showed everything. They showed
him picking up They showed him actually going to the
store and buying the materials he would need, including a shovel.
They show him driving around town where you only see
him in the driver's seat and nobody else. And then,
of course we know he drives out into the middle
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of nowhere. I don't know if he dug the hole
before they he kidnapped her, or after she was there.
I don't know if he removed the blindfold to let
her see the hole. I don't know. None of us know.
We do know that she had to have been terrorized
at a level of depth that one can never you
don't even want to imagine, worse than everything else Joseph
(08:18):
Scott Morgan. After kidnapping, traveling around, blindfolding Hitt and taping
her all up, this twenty one year old man takes
the love of his life and throws her in the
hole and buries her while she's still alive.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
And she would have known what was coming, Dave. And
here's the rope. You had mentioned earlier that she was
a caretaker for the agent. She knows the value of breath,
She understands the physiology behind what goes into providing oxygen.
She would have placed, probably gently a canule in somebody's
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nose that had COPD or some kind of breathing can do.
She would have known the level, the rate at which
oxygen is forced through that canula. But yet for her
it ended in a very dark, isolated place and there
was no one to hear her cries for help. I'd
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like to say that Australia has always been a place
that I have dreamt of going. I'm terrified of the
plane flight. It's not that flight terrifies me. It's the
pain associated with it, having to sit there for so long.
But to behold what is down under, to see that
country down there, I've always wanted to go, in particular
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the many people talk about going to the coast, and
I know that it's quite beautiful. I've often wondered about
the nature of things that are both literally and figuratively,
what it looks like almost you know, you see these
images the interior with that dark red clay like sandy
soil that they have that seems like permeates everything. I've
(10:20):
seen the images of Air's Rock and these locations. But
where seeing took yasmine is a place called the Flinders
Ranges fli NDErs, not Flanders, but Flinders Ranges. And it
is truly an isolated location. And when they say ranges,
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there's actually small mountain range that runs through there and
one of the highest peaks in the country called Saint Mary's.
When you see it, it looks similar to our desert southwest,
only a bit more colorful. But the soil itself looks
pressed compacted, if you will and read so that And
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I can just imagine that every time you put a
shovel to that dirt, you can actually hear that kind
of metallic clink as it goes in, and you're having
to force that soil out of that space. And I'm wondering, Dave,
I'm just wondering, as yasmine laid there, perhaps in the darkness,
she could still hear does she hear the sound of
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that shovel going into the dirt as each as each
shovelful is pulled out of that hole and thrown to
the side. I don't believe that he had predug this hole.
He is seen on CCTV going to purchase a shovel,
so he was armed and ready, but not completely prepared.
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He knew where he was going, And just to kind
of frame it for our folks that if you think
about it, it's like four hundred and fifty kilometers. They're saying,
asman particularly lived in Adelaide, which is in the southern
portion of Australia. They had to drive four hundred and
fifty kilometers, which is over two hundred miles. All right,
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this is a destination that he had an idea about
and he knew that it was isolated. I don't think
that he had gone up there and pre dug a hole.
And this is what I do believe. I think that
digging the whole dave was part of the terrorizing. She
would have had an awareness. She could not move, she
couldn't free herself. She's bound with cable straps, a zip ties,
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if you will. And also what they found was that
she was also secured with duct tape. They're using the
term gaffer tape as well, which is very similar gaffer
tape duct tape. So he's got her bound up, but
she could hear every time that spade went into the
dirt and turned another shovelful.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
A sad and scary thought that this is what a
man did to the woman he said he loved, He
loved her so much, the stocking and everything else. I'm
just baffled by what was going on with mister Singh.
He could do this to somebody that he said he
cared about, which just goes beyond the paling. We got
to get into this. Okay, what did her body go
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through after all of the fear, after all the terror
leading up to it, Joe, we know she has no
way to free herself. She has sat there for hours,
and I believe you're right that he actually dug the
hole and was talking to her the whole time. We
know she was blindfolded. We don't know if she was
gagged at the time. She was thrown into the hole
with no way to get herself out, and then she
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had to feel the dirt on her body.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, and I think that it's important to back up.
But wee bit here and think about you mentioned you
were on target a moment ago, when you had mentioned
that you couldn't see anybody in the backseat. And as
our friends in Australia and they refer to the trunk
as the boot. You've got her in a position so
that you could subdue her at home. Perhaps she's terrified
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he's threatening her. He gets her subdued, he gets her
secured in sense that he's got her bound up. Then
he puts her into this car and keep in mind
what I was saying about the Flinders Ranges. This is
an isolated area, and I've seen the crime scene images
from this location. This is not what we would refer
to as an improved road where she was found. This
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would have been not only would she have heard the
road noise while she was in the boot, and you
can imagine how uncomfortable that drive would have been, bouncing
up and down, maybe taking up a little bit of
carbon monoxide as she's laying in that trunk, perhaps pounding headache.
She's totally disoriented to space and time. She feels every
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pothole on the improved road surfaces, perhaps every turn. She
can feel this. Her equilibrium is still working. She can
sense when she's moving to the left or to the right.
She knows when there's an incline or a decline coming
up in the road. She can feel the change in
speed of the vehicle. Perhaps possibly she can hear him
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shouting at her, or perhaps he's turned the music on
in the vehicle and it's playing it very loudly. You
could hear it through the rear speakers. All along, she's
completely disoriented. It's almost complete and total sensory deprivation. So
the terror is rising within her. And then when he
comes off of this improved road surface, you know where
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it's blacktopped, and he has to go down into this
area that is certainly unimproved. You're going to hit every
washboard in the road. You know, there's ruts that you
feel as the shock absorbers in the car trying to
maintain the vehicle in its orientation, and you're bouncing down
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the Maybe the road is completely uneven. Maybe he's speeding up,
maybe he's slowing down. He's trying to seek out this location.
Remember we don't believe he predug this hole. And then
finally you arrive there. I can't even begin to imagine
the fear that had arisen within her when she is
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traveling to this locale, because she's got to believe, Dave,
that nothing good is going to come of this. One
(16:47):
interesting aside relative to Jasmine's death is that it was
alleged that she had committed suicide. And David, I don't
know about you, but I don't think I've ever heard
of a case where someone committed suicide and then buried
themselves in a shallow grave.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I don't want to laugh, because it's not a laughing matter.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
It's nonsensical, Yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It is not. Yeah, that's a great term. It is nonsensical.
But Joe, this story that police were told didn't make
sense to them. And you know how they are able
to get confessions out of people, and they did. I
want to find the right way to phrase this, Joe.
As I was reading through this story and doing some
background on it, I was thinking about how this Tariq
Joht Singh had traumatized Yasmin Corp to the at twenty one.
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They're both twenty one, both young people, but he consistently
badgered her even while they were dating, the term by
her family. He tried to forcibly marry her, He tried
to forcibly keep her in the relationship, and she really
was done so all the way through, he was consistent
thinking she didn't matter what she wanted, what she thought,
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none of that matter. It was what he wanted. And
you've described the traveling, the thing she went through in
the back of that car, and as you were talking about,
I was thinking, I wish the carbon monoxide had rendered
her unconscious so she wouldn't have to deal with what
she was going to deal with. Most of us you
mentioned at the very beginning of this show today, having
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the wind knocked out of you, not being able to breathe,
and as she was thrown into the hole and then
dirt is put on top of her. That was not
the end, by the way, before she's put in the hole,
somewhere in the course of this crazy day, saying tried
to scare her by cutting her throat. It wasn't deep
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enough to do anything. It didn't have anything to do
with her death. I think he did it just to
scare her even more.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, to terror razz her. And I think that as well.
And it was she had an anterior which means the
front of the neck, so cross her throat. She had
what appear to be an incized area. But according to
the me I say em according to the corner they
have corners in Australia when they examine this injury after
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the fact, it's what they have termed as superficial. However,
do not be mistaken in this. Just because they say
that something is superficial doesn't mean that it's not painful
and that it wouldn't further inject terror. And I think
that you and I can agree that that's probably what
the purpose was here where he holds her tight perhaps
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against his chest, as he takes a sharp instrument and
drags it across the surface of her neck. And lord
only knows, maybe this was one last attempt on his
part to try to elicit from her a promise of love.
Can you imagine, And he's going to do this, utilizing
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this knife to try to get that from her. And
apparently the answer was in sufficient. But we do know this,
and this is quite fascinating one bit of information that
came out as a result of the autopsy. It is
opined by the forensic pathologist that she had died within
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essentially twenty four hours of having been placed in that
grave live. Now, when we think of a standard burial,
where we have a grave site where there has been
a hole dug in the ground, and you have a
vault that's placed in the ground and then the casket
is placed within it, you have this kind of indwelling
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support right where doesn't touch the body and it won't
for years and years and years. She was placed in
the ground like this, alive and after having heard the
sound of that shovel striking earth, probably unturned soil. It
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was a struggle and she is placed into this hole,
and they're describing this hole as a shallow grave, which
to my way of thinking is probably no more than
maybe two feet perhaps. But when you take a look
at the crime scene images, you can see evidence markers
all over the ground. Now, a lot of this is
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going to be indicative of probably tire truck where he
has passed over an area. They're marking that area out.
And when I say that this was immediately adjacent to
the road, it was immediately adjacent to the road, And
we can kind of surmise a few things based upon that.
He didn't take the time to travel off in the
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brush with her to do this. He literally stopped in
this one location. And we know this because we're seeing
the markers on the ground where the tire tracks would
have been left behind. They don't get a lot of
rain there, so those tire tracks would probably still be appreciable.
He took them, the authorities, to this location and pointed
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out where he had buried her, and it wouldn't have
been very difficult for the crime scene investigators to have
figured this out, because, as we've talked about previously, on
body backs, there is a big difference a gulf of
difference between where you have untouched soil that hasn't had
a tool placed to it, and recently turned soil, it
will be kind of mounded up. There's no way even
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if you had every bit of dirt that would have
been pulled out of this and placed back in there,
there's no way to get it so that it looks
like the rest of the environment. You can appreciate turned
soil very well. And so they were able to, you know,
kind of brush this away and examine her there. But
here's the thing that they discovered at autopsy. She was
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dead within twenty four hours of having been buried. And
what that tells me is that first off, they were
able to determine she was not dead when she went
into the grave. How do we know that, Well, just
like if you will imagine, really the closest thing I
can give people an idea of if you're around smoke,
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for instance, next to a fire. If you've ever been
to an outdoor fire and you breathe in, you have
the smell of the smoke that's entering your nasal passages,
your mouth. You can kind of taste it if you will.
That is being literally uptaken in your body. That's the
closest I can come to describing this because what they
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would have found at autopsy when they did the internal examination,
The first thing that they would have done before they
went and opened her body is they would have looked
in her nostrils. You would have seen the same dirt
that was on the ground.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Let me ask you about that. Singh puts her in
the hole. In my picturing, I'm thinking if I was
in a hole, I would be moving dirt around my
face to create a little area around my nose and mouth,
thinking in those terms. But in this case, her hands
were tied behind her back. We know she was blindfolded,
and we know based on what you're telling us that
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her mouth was not covered. So she's in the hole.
She can do nothing to maneuver the dirt away from
her mouth and nose. She has no way of getting
a clear breath. What is her body going through as
the pressure of the dirt, even if it's not that much,
it's still on her body. She can't get a clean
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breath of air. If she opens her mouth, dirt goes in.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
She would have been trying to wiggle in. This is
just kind of a natural response you're trying to get
air as best you can. And the tighter he packs
his soul, you know, and any of us that have
ever seen by dig a hole with a shovel, you
go back and you tamp it down with the back
of the shovel. Most of the time. The tighter, this
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is the less of a space she's going to have
in order to move about and to turn her head
from left to right in order to gain a breath.
And this soil that she is uptaking through her nostrils
and into her mouth is steadily replacing any oxygen that
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might be there. It becomes a matter of time at
that point, because her brain would have been screaming for
oxygen and she could not have gleaned any oxygen from
that environment whatsoever, because it's quickly dissipated. If you're placed
into a vault in the ground, you're going to run
out of air eventually. Okay, provided that it is airtight.
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You have to assume that it might be. But in
this case, oxygen would have been in very short supply
in this environment. Remember oxygen, you know, if we talk about, say,
for instance, of a refrigerator or deep freeze, you got
to purchase one. The space within that environment is measured
in not cubic feet but cubic inches, and you feel
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that that invisible space, you know when we're looking at
that with a body. And then you think about, well,
how much oxygen would there have been within this environment, Well,
in a tightly packed environment with all of this dirt,
not much. So what's going to happen. Well, you're still
going to have this respiratory event where you're in taking
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what you believe is it should be oxygen. You've done
this in your entire life, but it's not. It's dirt.
It's dusty dirt, so it'll be very particulate. Now, when
they would have gotten in to the internal examination, first off,
they would have seen and they kind of go into
graphic detail about this, which was I was kind of surprised,
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and this is quite horrible, David. They found dirt almost
the entire length of her esophagus. That means she's swallowing dirt.
That means that as she's trying to uptake oxygen through
her mouth, she's also getting mouthfuls of dirt. It's like
attempting to breathe underwater. You know, those two things don't happen.
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And you know, many times you'll find in the stomach
of a drowning victim because part of it is going
to be ingested. But then also you're going to find
it down the trachea, which is our windpipe, and that
splits off into the bronchial tree, and it's nothing to
find particulate bits of And again I go back to
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my example of fires. When you have a house fire,
for instance, you'll remember we talk a lot about was
their soot in the lungs. That's how we determine if
someone was alive during the time of the fire. There's
really no difference here. The trick here though, and what
makes this all the more horrific. When you have a fire,
you've kind of got this horrible chemical reaction that's going
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on because of all of this stuff that's burning in
the air, and it's given off these noxious gases and
this sort of thing. There's no noxious gas here. You
actually have oxygen being replaced by dirt. And because that
is occurring, you can when you dissect the lungs at
autopsy and you go down the bronchial tree, you'll actually
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find dirt contained in there because the body is still
doing its best to try to process what's available to
survive on Singh has now pled guilty and his sentence,
which has been recommended to be life in prison, will
be imposed next month. If you know of someone, a friend,
(28:27):
a family member that is now dealing with issues of
domestic violence, please please reach out for help. There's a
number here in the US that you can call. It's
one eight hundred seven nine nine Safe sa FE. That's
seven two three three, that's one eight hundred and seven
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nine nine Safe. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is
Bodybags
Body bags with Joseph Scott Morgan. Take a moment, take
a deep breath through your nose. Want that breath out.
A breath is something that most of us just take
(00:29):
for granted. It's a wondrous thing. The ability to process oxygen,
the ability to derive life from our environment just by
simply breathing in and breathing out. That mechanism, that marvelous mechanism,
that thing that is occurring at a molecular level within
(00:51):
our lungs to keep us sustained. Now, imagine just for
a moment that breath. Perhaps you've taken for granted entire life,
that ability to take in that which keeps us going,
is suddenly, as we say in the South cut Off, today,
(01:12):
we're going to talk about arguably one of the most
horrific ways to die. We're going to talk about a
young woman who was buried alive.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes me and Carr was being stalked and just one
month after reporting it to police, Carr was abducted and killed.
Australian police said Carr was bound with tape and cable ties,
blindfolded and superficial, non life threatening cuts were made to
her throat. She was then buried alive.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags Dave
mac Have you ever been punched in the gut and
have what they say, had the win knocked out of you.
I think it's happened to everybody. Maybe you fall on
your back, suddenly that breath is gone, and you get,
(02:05):
just for a moment, you get that sense of what
it would be like to not be able to catch
your breath. And I think that all of us can
understand that horrific terror that kind of grips us. But
you know the thing about it getting your breath knocked out.
For most of us, it's going to return. But in
this particular case today it didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Do. You have a young couple, Jasmine Korr and her
ex boyfriend. He is one of these guys that if
I can't have you, nobody will. And so when Jasmine
Korr broke up with Greek Jot Singh, he didn't take
it well. As a matter of fact, he was so
(02:47):
bad about the breakup that he was following her around.
He was really creepy stalking. We don't know the depth
of stalking that went into it, but it is a
proper term to the point where jasmincorp at twenty one
years old. This is a woman that works at a
home for the aged Heart of Gold. Everybody loves her
(03:10):
and this guy is terrorizing her. So she finally goes
to the police filed a complaint detailing all of the
things her ex boyfriend, mister Singh had been doing to her.
And it was enough. It was enough that police went
out and warned him about stalking her.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I just want to bring this to the surface. How
many of these cases, and I want to qualify this
by saying our case today it hit the international wires
and of course it made it here to America. This
just has really occurred very recently, and it was such
a horrific case that it kind of caught the attention
of everybody around the world. There's something about this behavior
(03:52):
that seeing displayed that knows no geographic boundaries. Think about
how many cases over the years that you've covered and
that I've covered where we hear this same old refrain,
where you've got this terrified young woman who has been
(04:12):
in a relationship, and maybe not even in a relationship.
It's a matter of perception on the part of some
psychopath out there that thinks they're in a relationship. You
do everything that you possibly can do. You go to
your family and say, hey, look, this guy won't leave
me alone. What do I do well, honey? The next
thing we're going to do is we're going to go
(04:33):
the police, to the local constabulary and we're going to
ask them, you know, what do we do? Or to
the local prosecutor what do we do well? The best
we can do is get a restraining order. And of
course in this case, it just you know, it just
didn't it fell flat.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
More than fell flat. I think it actually pushed to
Wreak John Singh over the cliff, I mentioned that jas
Me and Core twenty one to Wreak John sing twenty one,
we've got young people that have been involved in a
relationship that finally got to the point where she said,
enough's enough. I can't handle you. Let's break up. Time
to see other people. Is not you, it's me. He
(05:09):
didn't take it. He's terrorizing her to the point where
she goes to the police. When the police talked to him,
was lighting the fuse. That's all I could think of,
because what happened next Jerik John Singh made a plan.
I don't know the amount of time he spent planning it.
I don't know, but there was enough and we have
the CCTV cameras to actually track what he did, where
(05:31):
he went, and all the things leading up to abducting
this woman. He said he loved Think about that, all
of these horrible things that are about to happen, this
guy claimed he loved her.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That's the thing about this. How do you express love?
It's often said that love and hatred are the are
just different sides of the same coin. But you know,
that doesn't quite get it, does it. You look at
Yasmin's parents, you look at those that love, you look
at those that look to her for comfort. You talked
(06:04):
about the aged that she was taken care of. That
doesn't quite cut it, does it. That's not enough to
I don't know, find some kind of comfort in, some
kind of understanding in because at the end of the day,
she's at the total and complete mercy of someone who
(06:25):
turns out to be a complete monster. In this particular case.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I'm wondering what she was going through at the moment
she sees him. Because she has gone to the police,
she has reported it, she has given them enough information
and evidence that they agree with her, they're going to
put a stop to him. She does all the right things,
and here he is showing up just a couple of weeks.
We're talking a very short period of time between the
(06:51):
time that she reports him to police and he shows
up at her place of work and kidnaps her. Based
on some of the video evidence we have, we see
Sing driving around town and heading out of town, but
we see him in the driver's sept but there's nobody
in the passenger seat, and it appears that there's nobody
in the back seat. So what the thought is is
(07:12):
that Sing kidnaps the woman he loves, Yasmin, and he
ties her hands with cable, he uses duct tape, and
he I think put her in the trunk of the car.
They're not even sure. But he blindfolded her, handcuffed her,
taped her up, put her in the car, and took
(07:35):
off and she has no idea what's going to happen next.
As I mentioned, the CCTV camera showed everything. They showed
him picking up They showed him actually going to the
store and buying the materials he would need, including a shovel.
They show him driving around town where you only see
him in the driver's seat and nobody else. And then,
of course we know he drives out into the middle
(07:55):
of nowhere. I don't know if he dug the hole
before they he kidnapped her, or after she was there.
I don't know if he removed the blindfold to let
her see the hole. I don't know. None of us know.
We do know that she had to have been terrorized
at a level of depth that one can never you
don't even want to imagine, worse than everything else Joseph
(08:18):
Scott Morgan. After kidnapping, traveling around, blindfolding Hitt and taping
her all up, this twenty one year old man takes
the love of his life and throws her in the
hole and buries her while she's still alive.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
And she would have known what was coming, Dave. And
here's the rope. You had mentioned earlier that she was
a caretaker for the agent. She knows the value of breath,
She understands the physiology behind what goes into providing oxygen.
She would have placed, probably gently a canule in somebody's
(08:56):
nose that had COPD or some kind of breathing can do.
She would have known the level, the rate at which
oxygen is forced through that canula. But yet for her
it ended in a very dark, isolated place and there
was no one to hear her cries for help. I'd
(09:35):
like to say that Australia has always been a place
that I have dreamt of going. I'm terrified of the
plane flight. It's not that flight terrifies me. It's the
pain associated with it, having to sit there for so long.
But to behold what is down under, to see that
country down there, I've always wanted to go, in particular
(09:59):
the many people talk about going to the coast, and
I know that it's quite beautiful. I've often wondered about
the nature of things that are both literally and figuratively,
what it looks like almost you know, you see these
images the interior with that dark red clay like sandy
soil that they have that seems like permeates everything. I've
(10:20):
seen the images of Air's Rock and these locations. But
where seeing took yasmine is a place called the Flinders
Ranges fli NDErs, not Flanders, but Flinders Ranges. And it
is truly an isolated location. And when they say ranges,
(10:42):
there's actually small mountain range that runs through there and
one of the highest peaks in the country called Saint Mary's.
When you see it, it looks similar to our desert southwest,
only a bit more colorful. But the soil itself looks
pressed compacted, if you will and read so that And
(11:05):
I can just imagine that every time you put a
shovel to that dirt, you can actually hear that kind
of metallic clink as it goes in, and you're having
to force that soil out of that space. And I'm wondering, Dave,
I'm just wondering, as yasmine laid there, perhaps in the darkness,
she could still hear does she hear the sound of
(11:28):
that shovel going into the dirt as each as each
shovelful is pulled out of that hole and thrown to
the side. I don't believe that he had predug this hole.
He is seen on CCTV going to purchase a shovel,
so he was armed and ready, but not completely prepared.
(11:49):
He knew where he was going, And just to kind
of frame it for our folks that if you think
about it, it's like four hundred and fifty kilometers. They're saying,
asman particularly lived in Adelaide, which is in the southern
portion of Australia. They had to drive four hundred and
fifty kilometers, which is over two hundred miles. All right,
(12:12):
this is a destination that he had an idea about
and he knew that it was isolated. I don't think
that he had gone up there and pre dug a hole.
And this is what I do believe. I think that
digging the whole dave was part of the terrorizing. She
would have had an awareness. She could not move, she
couldn't free herself. She's bound with cable straps, a zip ties,
(12:37):
if you will. And also what they found was that
she was also secured with duct tape. They're using the
term gaffer tape as well, which is very similar gaffer
tape duct tape. So he's got her bound up, but
she could hear every time that spade went into the
dirt and turned another shovelful.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
A sad and scary thought that this is what a
man did to the woman he said he loved, He
loved her so much, the stocking and everything else. I'm
just baffled by what was going on with mister Singh.
He could do this to somebody that he said he
cared about, which just goes beyond the paling. We got
to get into this. Okay, what did her body go
(13:18):
through after all of the fear, after all the terror
leading up to it, Joe, we know she has no
way to free herself. She has sat there for hours,
and I believe you're right that he actually dug the
hole and was talking to her the whole time. We
know she was blindfolded. We don't know if she was
gagged at the time. She was thrown into the hole
with no way to get herself out, and then she
(13:43):
had to feel the dirt on her body.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, and I think that it's important to back up.
But wee bit here and think about you mentioned you
were on target a moment ago, when you had mentioned
that you couldn't see anybody in the backseat. And as
our friends in Australia and they refer to the trunk
as the boot. You've got her in a position so
that you could subdue her at home. Perhaps she's terrified
(14:09):
he's threatening her. He gets her subdued, he gets her
secured in sense that he's got her bound up. Then
he puts her into this car and keep in mind
what I was saying about the Flinders Ranges. This is
an isolated area, and I've seen the crime scene images
from this location. This is not what we would refer
to as an improved road where she was found. This
(14:31):
would have been not only would she have heard the
road noise while she was in the boot, and you
can imagine how uncomfortable that drive would have been, bouncing
up and down, maybe taking up a little bit of
carbon monoxide as she's laying in that trunk, perhaps pounding headache.
She's totally disoriented to space and time. She feels every
(14:55):
pothole on the improved road surfaces, perhaps every turn. She
can feel this. Her equilibrium is still working. She can
sense when she's moving to the left or to the right.
She knows when there's an incline or a decline coming
up in the road. She can feel the change in
speed of the vehicle. Perhaps possibly she can hear him
(15:18):
shouting at her, or perhaps he's turned the music on
in the vehicle and it's playing it very loudly. You
could hear it through the rear speakers. All along, she's
completely disoriented. It's almost complete and total sensory deprivation. So
the terror is rising within her. And then when he
comes off of this improved road surface, you know where
(15:38):
it's blacktopped, and he has to go down into this
area that is certainly unimproved. You're going to hit every
washboard in the road. You know, there's ruts that you
feel as the shock absorbers in the car trying to
maintain the vehicle in its orientation, and you're bouncing down
(15:59):
the Maybe the road is completely uneven. Maybe he's speeding up,
maybe he's slowing down. He's trying to seek out this location.
Remember we don't believe he predug this hole. And then
finally you arrive there. I can't even begin to imagine
the fear that had arisen within her when she is
(16:19):
traveling to this locale, because she's got to believe, Dave,
that nothing good is going to come of this. One
(16:47):
interesting aside relative to Jasmine's death is that it was
alleged that she had committed suicide. And David, I don't
know about you, but I don't think I've ever heard
of a case where someone committed suicide and then buried
themselves in a shallow grave.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I don't want to laugh, because it's not a laughing matter.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
It's nonsensical, Yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
It is not. Yeah, that's a great term. It is nonsensical.
But Joe, this story that police were told didn't make
sense to them. And you know how they are able
to get confessions out of people, and they did. I
want to find the right way to phrase this, Joe.
As I was reading through this story and doing some
background on it, I was thinking about how this Tariq
Joht Singh had traumatized Yasmin Corp to the at twenty one.
(17:39):
They're both twenty one, both young people, but he consistently
badgered her even while they were dating, the term by
her family. He tried to forcibly marry her, He tried
to forcibly keep her in the relationship, and she really
was done so all the way through, he was consistent
thinking she didn't matter what she wanted, what she thought,
(18:01):
none of that matter. It was what he wanted. And
you've described the traveling, the thing she went through in
the back of that car, and as you were talking about,
I was thinking, I wish the carbon monoxide had rendered
her unconscious so she wouldn't have to deal with what
she was going to deal with. Most of us you
mentioned at the very beginning of this show today, having
(18:22):
the wind knocked out of you, not being able to breathe,
and as she was thrown into the hole and then
dirt is put on top of her. That was not
the end, by the way, before she's put in the hole,
somewhere in the course of this crazy day, saying tried
to scare her by cutting her throat. It wasn't deep
(18:43):
enough to do anything. It didn't have anything to do
with her death. I think he did it just to
scare her even more.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, to terror razz her. And I think that as well.
And it was she had an anterior which means the
front of the neck, so cross her throat. She had
what appear to be an incized area. But according to
the me I say em according to the corner they
have corners in Australia when they examine this injury after
(19:11):
the fact, it's what they have termed as superficial. However,
do not be mistaken in this. Just because they say
that something is superficial doesn't mean that it's not painful
and that it wouldn't further inject terror. And I think
that you and I can agree that that's probably what
the purpose was here where he holds her tight perhaps
(19:33):
against his chest, as he takes a sharp instrument and
drags it across the surface of her neck. And lord
only knows, maybe this was one last attempt on his
part to try to elicit from her a promise of love.
Can you imagine, And he's going to do this, utilizing
(19:53):
this knife to try to get that from her. And
apparently the answer was in sufficient. But we do know this,
and this is quite fascinating one bit of information that
came out as a result of the autopsy. It is
opined by the forensic pathologist that she had died within
(20:15):
essentially twenty four hours of having been placed in that
grave live. Now, when we think of a standard burial,
where we have a grave site where there has been
a hole dug in the ground, and you have a
vault that's placed in the ground and then the casket
is placed within it, you have this kind of indwelling
(20:37):
support right where doesn't touch the body and it won't
for years and years and years. She was placed in
the ground like this, alive and after having heard the
sound of that shovel striking earth, probably unturned soil. It
(20:58):
was a struggle and she is placed into this hole,
and they're describing this hole as a shallow grave, which
to my way of thinking is probably no more than
maybe two feet perhaps. But when you take a look
at the crime scene images, you can see evidence markers
all over the ground. Now, a lot of this is
(21:18):
going to be indicative of probably tire truck where he
has passed over an area. They're marking that area out.
And when I say that this was immediately adjacent to
the road, it was immediately adjacent to the road, And
we can kind of surmise a few things based upon that.
He didn't take the time to travel off in the
(21:39):
brush with her to do this. He literally stopped in
this one location. And we know this because we're seeing
the markers on the ground where the tire tracks would
have been left behind. They don't get a lot of
rain there, so those tire tracks would probably still be appreciable.
He took them, the authorities, to this location and pointed
(22:01):
out where he had buried her, and it wouldn't have
been very difficult for the crime scene investigators to have
figured this out, because, as we've talked about previously, on
body backs, there is a big difference a gulf of
difference between where you have untouched soil that hasn't had
a tool placed to it, and recently turned soil, it
will be kind of mounded up. There's no way even
(22:22):
if you had every bit of dirt that would have
been pulled out of this and placed back in there,
there's no way to get it so that it looks
like the rest of the environment. You can appreciate turned
soil very well. And so they were able to, you know,
kind of brush this away and examine her there. But
here's the thing that they discovered at autopsy. She was
(22:44):
dead within twenty four hours of having been buried. And
what that tells me is that first off, they were
able to determine she was not dead when she went
into the grave. How do we know that, Well, just
like if you will imagine, really the closest thing I
can give people an idea of if you're around smoke,
(23:05):
for instance, next to a fire. If you've ever been
to an outdoor fire and you breathe in, you have
the smell of the smoke that's entering your nasal passages,
your mouth. You can kind of taste it if you will.
That is being literally uptaken in your body. That's the
closest I can come to describing this because what they
(23:26):
would have found at autopsy when they did the internal examination,
The first thing that they would have done before they
went and opened her body is they would have looked
in her nostrils. You would have seen the same dirt
that was on the ground.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Let me ask you about that. Singh puts her in
the hole. In my picturing, I'm thinking if I was
in a hole, I would be moving dirt around my
face to create a little area around my nose and mouth,
thinking in those terms. But in this case, her hands
were tied behind her back. We know she was blindfolded,
and we know based on what you're telling us that
(24:03):
her mouth was not covered. So she's in the hole.
She can do nothing to maneuver the dirt away from
her mouth and nose. She has no way of getting
a clear breath. What is her body going through as
the pressure of the dirt, even if it's not that much,
it's still on her body. She can't get a clean
(24:27):
breath of air. If she opens her mouth, dirt goes in.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
She would have been trying to wiggle in. This is
just kind of a natural response you're trying to get
air as best you can. And the tighter he packs
his soul, you know, and any of us that have
ever seen by dig a hole with a shovel, you
go back and you tamp it down with the back
of the shovel. Most of the time. The tighter, this
(24:50):
is the less of a space she's going to have
in order to move about and to turn her head
from left to right in order to gain a breath.
And this soil that she is uptaking through her nostrils
and into her mouth is steadily replacing any oxygen that
(25:10):
might be there. It becomes a matter of time at
that point, because her brain would have been screaming for
oxygen and she could not have gleaned any oxygen from
that environment whatsoever, because it's quickly dissipated. If you're placed
into a vault in the ground, you're going to run
out of air eventually. Okay, provided that it is airtight.
(25:33):
You have to assume that it might be. But in
this case, oxygen would have been in very short supply
in this environment. Remember oxygen, you know, if we talk about, say,
for instance, of a refrigerator or deep freeze, you got
to purchase one. The space within that environment is measured
in not cubic feet but cubic inches, and you feel
(25:54):
that that invisible space, you know when we're looking at
that with a body. And then you think about, well,
how much oxygen would there have been within this environment, Well,
in a tightly packed environment with all of this dirt,
not much. So what's going to happen. Well, you're still
going to have this respiratory event where you're in taking
(26:15):
what you believe is it should be oxygen. You've done
this in your entire life, but it's not. It's dirt.
It's dusty dirt, so it'll be very particulate. Now, when
they would have gotten in to the internal examination, first off,
they would have seen and they kind of go into
graphic detail about this, which was I was kind of surprised,
(26:35):
and this is quite horrible, David. They found dirt almost
the entire length of her esophagus. That means she's swallowing dirt.
That means that as she's trying to uptake oxygen through
her mouth, she's also getting mouthfuls of dirt. It's like
attempting to breathe underwater. You know, those two things don't happen.
(26:57):
And you know, many times you'll find in the stomach
of a drowning victim because part of it is going
to be ingested. But then also you're going to find
it down the trachea, which is our windpipe, and that
splits off into the bronchial tree, and it's nothing to
find particulate bits of And again I go back to
(27:20):
my example of fires. When you have a house fire,
for instance, you'll remember we talk a lot about was
their soot in the lungs. That's how we determine if
someone was alive during the time of the fire. There's
really no difference here. The trick here though, and what
makes this all the more horrific. When you have a fire,
you've kind of got this horrible chemical reaction that's going
(27:44):
on because of all of this stuff that's burning in
the air, and it's given off these noxious gases and
this sort of thing. There's no noxious gas here. You
actually have oxygen being replaced by dirt. And because that
is occurring, you can when you dissect the lungs at
autopsy and you go down the bronchial tree, you'll actually
(28:05):
find dirt contained in there because the body is still
doing its best to try to process what's available to
survive on Singh has now pled guilty and his sentence,
which has been recommended to be life in prison, will
be imposed next month. If you know of someone, a friend,
(28:27):
a family member that is now dealing with issues of
domestic violence, please please reach out for help. There's a
number here in the US that you can call. It's
one eight hundred seven nine nine Safe sa FE. That's
seven two three three, that's one eight hundred and seven
(28:48):
nine nine Safe. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is
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