Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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. Theme Music: Audio Network

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December 25, 2025 48 mins

Part one of a two part episode covering dismemberment. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about the Black Dahlia case that is back in the headlines again, as well as Ed Gein, and other dismemberment killers we have covered. Imagine opening your garbage can to bring it back up the driveway empty, but it is too heavy, open the door and see a foot! One of the many cases covered in this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan...

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May 28, 1983: Badly burned 1977 Honda Civic is found in a field.  The body in the driver seat was so charred it was difficult to positively identify. The license plate and other items showed the vehicle belonged to 55-year-old Edward L. Cates - a former Mississippi Assistant Attorney General and Jackson City Commissioner. Cates wife, Dorothy, identified a partly burned shoe found on the left foot of the victim as belongin...

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Kimberly Langwell leaves work just after 5 p.m. on July 9, 1999, and vanishes.

Kimberly has dinner plans with her 15-year-old daughter, Tiffani, and new boyfriend, Ken Weatherford, but fails to show up. Tiffani notifies the police immediately, as it is totally out of character for her mother not to show up.

Police find Kimberly's car in the evening, and she disappears in the parking lot of an Eckerds Pharmacy. Searching the vehicle...

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Brian Walshe claims he dismembered his wife, Ana, and disposed of her body, but he did not kill her.

On trial for the first-degree murder of his wife, Brian Walshe now claims Ana died of "sudden adult death syndrome" and he dismembered and disposed of her body to protect his children.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the vile case of dismemberment and the new defense Walshe uses at trial. 

 

 

 

 

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Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were killed in their Brentwood home, and their middle son, Nick, has been arrested.

The murders have shocked Hollywood and have brought tributes from young and old who know the family. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the latest information about the double homicides:

  • Where were the Reiners' bodies found?
  • Did Billy Crystal see the bodies before officials closed off the crime scene?
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When Sarah Hunter, 32, doesn't show up for work at the Manchester Country Club, a coworker calls police to do a "welfare check". Nothing out of place in her rented room, and the only clue is her car found parked in an odd way at a gas station. The case goes cold but never forgotten. 39-years after she was foun dead, the investigators who never gave up, get a confession! Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at the Cold Case...

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In 1984 an 18-year-old former high school sports star is sitting in his car talking to an 18-year-old female when a maniac steps up to his car with a rifle. Terry Arndt tries to protect the girl he is with and attempts to shield her from the gunman, and dies protecting his friend. The killer then sexually assaults the girl and leaves her for dead. The monster leaves and the young woman drives Terry's car to try and get him help. Th...

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On June 28, 1997 a dismembered body is discovered by a father and his daughter out for a walk in Hempstead Lake State Park in Lakeview, New York. The torso is found in a rubber-maid container along with a red towel and a floral pillowcase. The head, both arms, both legs below the knee, all severed from the body and have not been found. A unique tattoo is found of a peach with a bite taken out of it that leads Investigators to publi...

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Nancy Howery meets Daniel Stearns on a dating app.

She is a 44-year-old divorced mother of two. Stearns is a 32-year-old control freak who says Nancy wasn't "following his dating rules" because she refused to date him exclusively.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the world of dating apps and how Nancy Howery became the victim of Daniel Stearns.

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Rebecca Kay Park is 38 weeks pregnant when she goes missing on November 3.

Three weeks later, her body is found by volunteer searchers. On the same day the body was discovered, authorities arrested Park's fiancé, Richard Falor, 43, and her sister, Kimberly Park, 21.

Those arrests are not directly tied to the murder of Rebecca, but the arrests of her biological mother, Cortney Bartholomew, and stepdad, Bradly Bartholomew, are...

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Wrongfully convicted of a crime that never occurred based on now discredited bite mark forensic pathology testimony from notorious "experts" Michael West and Steven Haynes.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case of Jimmie Duncan, a man convicted for a heinous crime that lands him on death row at Angola. Joe also breaks down the now debunked science of "bite mark" evide...

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Rachel Castillo' sister arrives home on the evening of November 10, 2022 to the apartment she shares with her sister and her sisters two children.  Rachel's car is in the parking lot where she normally parks, her keys and phone are inside the apartment, but Rachel is nowhere to be found. One look around the apartment and it looks like something out of a horror movie, blood is everywhere. Police say it is a violent abduction an...

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November 22, 1963: John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was shot and killed during a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas. The President is taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital.  By law, Dallas County Coroner Dr. Earl Rose had jurisdiction over the case and should have performed the autopsy. However, against Dr. Earl Rose's protestations, the body of President Kennedy was wrapped in a sheet, placed in a ...

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Part two of the Celeste Rivas death investigation. Many of the stories leaked to TMZ are false, leading LAPD to officially release some information about the condition of Celeste Rivas body. A court order is now preventing the LA Coroner from releasing details of the Celeste's body when she was found in Tesla registered to David Anthony Burke AKA  "D4VD". The investigation has officially been labeled an "Investigation into mur...

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A 2023 Tesla Model Y was abandoned in the Hollywood Hills along Bluebird avenue on July 29, 2025. The dented and dirty Tesla has Texas license plates.  After several weeks of no movement, a neighbor reports the car abandoned, starting a timeline in the middle of a horrible story that includes Celeste Rivas, reported missing from her parents home on April 5, 2024 when she is just 13, and a 20-year-old singing star on-the-rise, ...

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Anna Kepner is on the Carnival Horizon on a 6-day cruise with her father, stepmother, and other family members.

Feeling sick at dinner, she excuses herself and goes to her cabin. When she doesn't show up for breakfast, the family goes to her cabin, but she is gone. A massive search of the 14-story floating city of 4,000-plus people is conducted without success.

At around 11 a.m., a maid finds Anna wrapped in a sheet, stuffed under ...

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Margaret Anselmo, 45, a floral designer, mother of two, left her apartment on the morning of January 3rd, 1997,  to cash a check. A delivery driver found her body, face down in a snowy alley later that day. She had been raped and beaten to death. Police believed she was the victim of an apparent random act of violence. Her cause of death was due to blunt force trauma to the head. Her killer, not identified. Until now. Joseph S...

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Former porn star Devyn Michaels is accused of killing her ex-husband, father of her two daughters, by striking him in the head while giving him a massage, then cutting off his head.  Police uncover a strange story - Devyn Michaels is married to her ex-husband's son, her stepson, and her stepson/husband is now half-brother to her two daughters. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack pull back the curtain on another strange story out...

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On January 12, 2023, the family of Tony Mitchell called for a mental health welfare check on the 33-year-old.

He has sprayed his face and body with black spray paint and claims to have a "portal to hell."  When deputies show up, Mitchel discharges a weapon.

 Deputies are able to get Mitchell into custody, and even though he is obviously sufferin...

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Neighbors call for a welfare check on Tammy King after not seeing her for a couple days. Tammy is 61, and is raising her 17-year-old granddaughter, Tara King.  Law Enforcement does the welfare check and find Tammy dead under a pile of sheets in the middle of her bedroom floor, and it looks like the house was ransacked! Tara is not home, and neither is her boyfriend, 18-year-old Uriah Urick.  Tammy has been dead for a coup...

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