What Was In The Tea?

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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

8 Okt 46min

Christa Pike killed a classmate in Job Corps, carved a pentagram in her chest with a box cutter, kept a 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. J oseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the beating that brought about Colleen's death. And how Christa Pike saved a piece of 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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

7 Okt 44min

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! ConclusionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2 Okt 46min

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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

1 Okt 47min

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 Highlights00:02.52 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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

30 Sep 41min

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

25 Sep 47min

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 ConclusionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

24 Sep 50min

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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

23 Sep 50min