John Tyrrell is in the New Jersey woods when he finds a refrigerator that is wrapped in a sleeping bag, secured with blue ratchet straps, and covered with carpet. Tyrrell takes one look inside and calls police, he has just found missing mom, Laura Hughes. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss how the decomposed body is identified and what investigators do to nab the suspect in an international manhunt.

Transcription Highlights

00:03.04 Introduction 

03:47.47 Using refrigerator as casket

08:29.44 Digital data solves crimes

12:29.05 Finder wont give phone to police

17:40.80 Did perp keep refrigerator plugged in?

23:05.79 "purge fluid"

28:13.49 Removing clothes from the dead

33:45.56 Positive ID of victim

38:09.70 Items used to identify the dead

43:13.15 Calender in suspect apartment with "X" marks

48:09.54 Bullet defect and trajectory
 
49:23.36 Conclusion

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A teenager in Wisconsin is accused of killing his mother and his stepfather, then living with the decomposing bodies for weeks before he finally leaves the family home. Joseph Scott Morgan explains how difficult it would be to remain in a home with two decomposing bodies and he breaks down the types of guns and ammunition available to 17-year-old Nikita "Nikki" Casap. Dave Mack explains the family dynamic and how Nikki is also charged with identity theft for trying to pretend he is his now dead stepfather, as well as being charged with murder and more.  

Transcript Highlights
00:10.61 Introduction 

01:01.83 Spending more time with the dead

05:41.51 Teen kills mom, stepdad, lives with bodies

09:52.98 Making mistakes in murder

15:20.17 Pulling back the blankets

20:51.75 Mother is found in hallway

25:10.98 Backing out of crime scene

29:50.56 Dividing up responsibilities on scene

34:00.22 VERY nice house

39:56.04 Doesn't have to be a body part

43:53.57 Removing each layer

47:45.42 Size of Round and type of stippling

53:28.71 Getting hit with a sledgehammer

55:09.61 Conclusion

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How is it possible for a Green Beret to survive multiple times on the field of combat only to come home and be taken out by his nurse wife? Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the different sides of the same marriage to determine if forensic evidence will explain how Clint Bonnell's body parts ended up in a pond just three miles from his home and just weeks after he retires from military service. How will his wife, Shana Cloud, explain the bullets in her husband's laptop and declining to file a missing person report when he is obviously nowhere to be found?

Transcript Highlights

00:00.71 Introduction

03:16.43 Green Beret skill set

0833.43 Green Beret retires

13:46.78 To be on time is to be late

18:07.48 What was found with first search warrant

23:12.81 Green Beret gone, car in driveway

28:23.25 Remains tossed into pond

33:39.72 Recovering body from a pond

38:20.96 Digital forensic search

42:44.42 Would Green Beret be "on alert"

47:58.59 Bullets in the bookbag and laptop

49:08.59 Conclusion

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A shocking video our of New Orleans shows an Orleans Parish Coroner's Office employee dragging a murder victim's body down the front steps of his home! Project NOLA posts the video to social media and the next day, OUTRAGE. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at what happened on the scene to allow this to take place. Joe takes the time to explain the possible damage being done, not just to the victim, but to the prosecution case at trial. 

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00:05.89 Introduction, New Orleans

05:18.12 Description of Large Man dead for a long time

08:26.46 Getting the man down the stairs

10:27.13 The dead deserve dignity and respect

14:28.29 Recalling a story from autobiography

20:08.56 A body being drug from a home

25:08.48 Dragging a body down the stairs

30:00.43 Body is being damaged

35:56.52 Everything in the case can be ruined

40:41.59 Homes are very close

45:51.47 Conclusion

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Brandon Braxton played football for Duke University, is twice an Academic All-American, but after his playing career is over, he finds himself back where he went to High School, hanging out with a friend, Whitney Hurd. Hurd is a realtor and enjoys catching up with her old friend, at first, but when he starts hanging around her house and passing out drunk in her driveway, she calls police. When Whitney Hurd is reported missing, one of the only clues is her car. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look behind the front door of a high school friendship that turned deadly. Whitney Hurd actually helps provide a key clue as to what happened to her and who did it. Joseph Scott Morgan explains fingerprints and how they are everywhere, and in this case, put the suspect in the front seat of the victim's vehicle, a place Whitney Hurd never allowed anyone.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

01:21.76 Fingerprints found everywhere

04:52.11 Brandon Braxton, Academic All-American at Duke

10:13.35 Whitney Hurd is found by a Private Detective

15:27.08 Whitney Hurd, 32, realtor, well-off, reported missing

20:02.86 Describing friction ridges on finger prints

25:03.46 Playing football at Duke, academic all-American, good start in life

30:35.38 Whitney Hurd found INSIDE HER HOME

35:18.44 Face covering of murder victim, sign of remorse

39:51.96 Whitney did not let anyone drive her car

44:20.92 Braxton tells police he has never been in Whitney's car

46:06.88 Conclusion

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Kei'Mani Latigue, 13, lives with her grandmother, Dorothy Latigue - just the two of them.

Dorothy works at night and when she comes home the next morning, the door is unlocked, the house is a mess, the gas on the stove is on, and KeiMani is missing. KeiMani's father appears on local TV begging for anyone to please call police to help find his daughter.

Days later, the body of the 13-year-old is found with her hands chopped off and her head nearly severed. And she has been raped.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a close look at the family dynamic as Joe explains how forensics will help investigators determine what happened inside the home as well as where the child's body was found and what led police to arrest Darnell Jones, KeiMani's 33-year-old father.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.62 Introduction 

01:20.85 Graffiti says "her life mattered" 

03:01.55 13-year-old KeiMani Latigue, missing

07:07.69 Grandmother comes home from work, KeiMani mising

10:18.70 Examine couch for seminal fluid

14:59.66 Talk about force entry and struggle

19:17.46 Dad claims he left his daughter in the home

24:56.30 Father charged with kidnapping

30:25.80 Wounds are incised wounds

35:06.04 Why was body dismembered?

40:07.16 KeiMani was raped

45:24.68 Determining how long a body has been at location

50:17.96 Police charge father with kidnap, rape, murder 

57:14.69 Conclusion

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On August 5, 2008, a beach goer near the former Silver King Resort, west of Port Angeles, Washington, found a shoe containing a sock and what appeared to be human remains.

 It was not the first discovery of its kind—and would not be the last—but today, the person behind the foot has been identified.

Since 2007, at least 20 detached human feet, often in sneakers, have washed ashore along the Salish Sea in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington state. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack examine the mystery and go behind the scenes at Othram to explain how forensic experts identified the remains—and how the public can help.

Othram collaborates with forensic scientists, medical examiners, and law enforcement to solve cases when other methods have failed.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.12 Introductin

01:57.78 A shoe with a human foot found on beach 

06:48.11 Water meeting the sea, creating odd currents

12:09.99 How do feet wind up on the beach inside shoes

17:02.94 Geography of the area

23:51.44 Investigation starts very broad

28:31.49 Forensic anthropologist needed to ID remains

33:34.69 Why say "human remains" instead of "foot"

37:10.65 Othram Labs solving mysteries

43:12.33 Conclusion

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Jessie Marie Peterson, 31, an attorney with Type One Diabetes, is admitted to the hospital for a diabetes-related illness.
Two days later, she calls her mother around 2:30 p.m. and asks her to come pick her up and take her home. When her mother shows up two-hours later, she is told that Jessie Marie Peterson checked herself out of the hospital, Against Medical Advice (AMA). 
Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a close look at what really happened to Jessie Marie Peterson and why was her mother told she had checked out, when according to their own records, she was pronounced dead at 4:27 p.m. at the medical center.
While the family spent over a year looking for Jessie, her body had been sitting in a storage facility. 

Transcript Highlights

00:05.18 Introduction

01:59.25 Hospital tells family patient left AMA

06:53.65 Family is looking for Jessie Peterson, attorney

11:48.34 Jessie is ready to leave hospital, accomplished woman

16:11.54 Lawsuit filed

21:10.19 She calls her mother at 2:30, two hours later she is gone

25:20.07 Hospital claims she left AMA

30:22.43 Mother begins looking for Jessie

35:15.51 Jessie Marie Peterson was dead and for a year the family is looking for Jessie

40:06.21 Body is placed into cold storage

45:08.31 Her body is found after a year, remains are not viewable

49:01.24 Conclusion

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Jared Ondrea, 22, and Deshea Butler, 35, are both living in a halfway house in South Carolina when Marc-Anthony Cantrell is placed in the home.  Jared Ondrea goes missing and a search fails to find the young man who was trying to learn to live on his own as an adult. Five months later, Deshea Butler goes missing, and this time when police begin searching they find security footage of Marc-Anthony Cantrell carrying what appears to be the body of Butler out of the house. Confronted with the information, Cantrell confesses to killing both men, and adds some information not everyone was ready to hear. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at what it was like to have a person called a "Budding Serial Killer" as a roommate in a halfway house. Joe will also explain how the devil worshiping man with  tattoos of devil horns, could remove enough blood from one of his victims to drink it from a coffee cup for a week.

Transcript Highlights

00:20.04 Introduction

02:34.85 Marc-Anthony Cantrell, 26, satanist, called a budding serial killer

09:13.65 Two murders in South Carolina

14:44.86 Grandmother of Jared Ondrea files suit

19:28.08 Jared Ondrea, 22, body hasn't been found

24:21.46 Orders of Protective custody in New Orleans

29:07.42 People in need of help, not getting it

33:11.64 Why has this story stayed under the radar for two years

37:22.67 Removing the ears, ritualized

44:20.51 Conclusion

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Families and friends looking for answers about what happened to their loved ones who vanished. A volunteer group uncovers a site that looks like a concentration camp out of WW2, but it is in 2025 Mexico! Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take an up close look at what was found,  including three underground ovens used for cremating bodies. Joe explains the forensics in  trying to identify some of the souls whose remains, are now cremains. 

Transcript Highlights
00:00.03 Introduction

02:38.66 Disposal of human beings like WW2 Concentration camps

06:53.11 Since 1962, 120,000 people have gone missing in Mexico

11:09.42 Amongst the horror, children's toys are found

16:44.94 Volunteers using methods that are not very high tech

21:33.74 Looking for markers in the ground

26:36.78 Look for bodies by poking the ground 

31:12.08 Piles of shoes at the Holocaust museum

35:03.34 Conclusion

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