The Idaho College Murders Continued - Updates and Analysis

AUTOPSY REPORT WILL NOT BE RELEASED. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain what happened to Madeline Soto and Dave Mack will dig into the back story of the entire family. You will find out by the time she reached 13-years-old, Madeline Soto had already been sexually abused for years. When she was a “missing 13-year-old" from Florida, the news covered every tidbit of information about the search for the teen. One piece of evidence that made it to the press was how Madeline Soto told a friend when she turned 13, she was going to live in the woods. That is why police searched the woods for Madeline.       Transcript Highlights  00:00:28 Introduction, talk about parents protecting children  00:04:28 Talk about Madeline Soto saying she wanted to live in the woods  00:05:31 Discussion of ages 12 and 13  00:09:04 Discussion of Madeline not taking cell phone  00:12:29 Talk about family being told about evidence  00:16:42 Discussion of time children go to school  00:20:07 Discussion of Madeline Soto seen in vehicle  00:21:49 Talk about being haunted by evidence  00:26:26 Discussion of Madeline Soto  00:30:26 Talk about video surveillance of suspect  00:33:22 Discussion of 60 charges against suspect   00:37:32 Discussion of evidence of previous abuse See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

10 Apr 202439min

The fire department shows up at the home of one of their own and find Melissa Lamesch unconscious on the kitchen floor as her home goes up in flames around her. She is on maternity leave from her job as an EMT and is expecting her baby to be born any day. Melissa Lamesch and her unborn baby die in what authorities believe is asphyxiation from the fire. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will breakdown how trying to burn evidence of a crime, oftentimes creates the evidence needed for conviction.             Transcript Highlights  00:00:08 Introduction of fire set to cover-up a murder  00:01:18 Talk about fire and smoke  00:03:10 Discussion of smoke as evidence  00:05:05 Discussion of woman, 9 months pregnant, dying in a fire  00:08:35 Talk about how healing takes place after being burned   00:11:26 Discussion of hair catching fire in bathroom  00:14:43 Victim is on maternity leave from job as EMT  00:18:53 Discussion of the mother and her baby  00:22:53 Discussion of monoxide  00:28:01 Talk about suffocation  00:33:33 Discussion of fire splash patterns  00:36:55 Talk about the family talking to officials after the fire  00:40:46 Discussion of dealing with the death of pregnant mother  00:43:10 Conclusion, Matthew Plote convicted for Murder  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

9 Apr 202443min

Deborah Frazier calls 911 and tells them two burglars have shot her boyfriend, and as she is on the phone, a gunshot is heard and Frazier tells the dispatcher she has been shot in the leg by one of the burglars. Police arrive and discover the first person shot, Mr. Thomas Waddell, is in the back room of his apartment, wrapped in a blanket and a garbage bag and secured with duct tape. On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan will explain all of the things police will have to believe for Deborah Frazier's story to be true and Dave Mack will explain how Frazier was using a second boyfriend to con Mr Waddell out of his life savings!   Transcript Highlights  00:00:42 Talk about everything that has to be believed for the story to be true  00:02:48 Discussion of not believing a story  00:04:20 Discussion of “victim” shooting her boyfriend in the head  00:05:53 Talk about cases too difficult to believe  00:10:54 Talk about self-inflicted gunshot wound  00:14:19 Discussion of the victim who just retired  00:18:54 Talk about determining how long person has been dead  00:23:19 Discuss investigation of digital background  00:28:34 Talk about GSR test  00:33:02 Discussion of police on scene, gunshot recorded  00:37:57 Discussion of what has to be believed by investigators  00:40:12 Talk about Pictures of a life shared, scattered on the floor   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

4 Apr 202439min

Burned remains of a man found inside a foot locker and left in a blueberry field in Michigan were not identified for 13 years. In 2015 the case was called  "The Jack-in-the-Box Murder because it was a catchy title. The remains were not identified until the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office received a tip in 2015 that gave them the information they needed to use dental records to identify the deceased as Robert Caraballo. Investigating Caraballo's life at the time of his death took investigators to the home he shared with his wife and stepdaughter. Joseph Scott Morgan will break down the forensics that brought this case to a conclusion and Dave Mack will help tell the story of how the Jack-in-the-Box Murder became The Fugitive Wife Murder Trial.          Transcript Highlights  00:00:44 Introduction of story a burned body in a trunk found in blueberry field  00:02:40 Talk about conspiracy and escaping to other side of the planet  00:05:28 Discussion of victim being alive with hammer stuck in skull  00:08:02 Discussion of injury caused by falling downstairs  00:12:34 Talk about how remains could not be identified  00:15:11 Discussion of evidence in hammer attack  00:19:49 Discussion of hitting head with a hammer  00:23:51Talk about how the skull breaks  00:28:19 Discussion of destroying a body  00:32:37 Discussion of “old school” identifying remains  00:35:15 Talk about the plan to push victim down the stairs, hit him with a bat  00:35:53 Talk about the conspiracy  00:38:01 Discussion of law in Italy for hotel guests  00:39:15 Discussion of cover-up  00:40:06 Beverly McCallum guilty on all charges  00:40:42 Talk about keeping a secret   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2 Apr 202441min

Suicide or Murder?  Kendy Howard is found in a bathtub full of water with a gunshot wound to the head.  His body is cold, but the water in the tub is warm!  Red Flag number one.  On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will take a look at all of the "Red Flags" present in the reported suicide of Kendy Howard.  Why is there so little blood in the water? Why is her ex-trooper husband arrested at the airport? The biggest question of all, is the death of Kendy Howard a Suicide or Murder?           Transcript Highlights  00:00:27 Joe talks about admiration for Troopers  00:03:03 Discussion of law enforcement  00:05:59 Discussion of “Red Flags”  00:08:14 Talk about the water is warm, body is cold  00:12:23 Investigation of suicide/murder  00:16:33 Discussion of damage caused by gunshot in mouth  00:17:49 Talk about direction of bullet  00:21:26 Comparing murder of Travis Alexander  00:25:53 Defining different types of asphyxiation  00:30:08 Talk about injuries “frozen in time”  00:35:33 Discussion of how much blood would be expected See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

28 Mars 202436min

The victim was alive when her head was cut from her body. As disturbing as that sounds, today's episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan will attempt to breakdown the just released autopsy report of Mei Li Haskell. Her husband, Samuel Haskell IV is accused of killing her, removing her head from her torso, placing the torso in a bag and dropping it in a trash bin where a homeless guy would find it 14 hours later! Joseph Scott Morgan will breakdown the forensics that will come into the trial and Dave Mack will dig deep in the Hollywood that can give us a true horror story that is scarier than anyone would ever dare put on film.             Transcript Highlights  00:00:49 The son of a hotshot  00:03:04 “Don’t you know who I am?”  00:05:03 Discussion of “the finder”  00:08:58 Talk about the bags felt like meat  00:09:26 Discussion of workers bring back bags  00:12:20 Discussion of cross contamination  00:16:58 Talk about hiring workers  00:20:56 Discussion of what police can do  00:26:22 Talk about the person who found the body  00:30:54 Mentions victim’s parents still missing  00:33:01 Discuss autopsy report, victim alive when head cut off  00:38:20 Discussion of using power tools in dismemberment  00:42:54 Mentions trial will be all forensics   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

26 Mars 202443min

Iris, 1, comes home from a weekend with her father and his girlfriend and mom finds a water bead in her diaper. Taking her to the hospital, the toddler passes more water beads, button-shaped batteries, and a screw. Thinking she was finding things and putting them in her mouth, nobody realized a monster was watching the baby. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the case that is more than the murder of a toddler, it's how evil came into the child’s life and plotted and planned her death for more than half of her life.   Transcript Highlights  00:00:20 Introduction  00:02:39 Discussion of toddlers  00:04:22 Talk about items in diaper  00:07:34 Discussion of beads, batteries, screw  00:10:12 Talk about toddlers putting things in their mouth  00:14:34 Discussion of solvent  00:16:18 Discussion of evil  00:18:27 Talk about taking child to hospital by plane  00:22:08 Explaining a subdural hematoma  00:24:01 Discussion of optic nerves  00:27:16 Talk about how healthy baby dies in 4 days  00:30:15 Discussion of notes made by doctors and nurses  00:32:54 Talk about children swallow everyday items  00:35:31Discussion suspect researched how to beat a polygraph See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

21 Mars 202436min

Two severed heads, an arm here, a leg there, on this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, the Reel Amityville Horror will meet the Real Amityville Horror.  A group of Long Island High School students find a severed left arm on the side of a road in Babylon on their way to school. While Police investigate the scene, a K-9 officer locates a leg sticking out of a pile of leaves in a wooded area, not far from the original scene. Over time more body parts were found in multiple areas. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will detail what was found and where and what the suspects were up against when they began writing their own Amityville Horror.           Transcript Highlights  00:00:07 Introduction – to horror  00:01:39 Discussion about charges for dismembering a person  00:04:48 Talk about how the bodies were treated in death  00:08:03 Discussion of arm with tattoo found in tree limb  00:11:51 Body part found by high school students on the way to school  00:15:16 Parts of 2 bodies found, 4 people charged  00:15:17 None of the 4 people is charged with murder  00:16:14 Discuss what the ME will have to do with parts   00:18:04 Talking about Black Dhalia   00:19:49 Discussion of none of the drains work in the rental  00:21:30 Discussion of body parts from more than one person  00:25:11 Talk about unique case  00:28:51 Joe describes investigation taking place  00:31:30 Discussion of dismemberment   00:34:01 Discussion of blood, muscle, skin, hair, Drano won’t work  00:37:13 Talk about revisiting the case in the future See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

19 Mars 202436min