SHOCKER! Wife and Daughter Testify Against Dad in Murder of Future Son-in-law

The Idaho house where Madison Mogen , Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were murdered has been demolished.   Prosecution and Defense were both in agreement about the resident being demolished before the trial. Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they discuss what might be missed and who might be helped by the biggest pieced of evidence being destroyed.    Transcript Highlights  00:01:08 Talk about why the odd shaped home had to come down  00:02:18 Discussion about destroying house before trial  00:03:47 Compare being able to visit the home of Lizzie Borden   00:05:47 Discussion of taking down horrible crime scenes  00:08:33 Comparing evidence like knife to house, would a picture of knife be sufficient  00:09:06 Discussion of both sides in agreement in taking building down  00:11:28 Talk about how to tell if someone could hear noise from top to bottom of house  00:13:36 Discussion of first-person perspective  00:15:48 Discussion of Parkland scene  00:17:42 Talk about taking jury to crime scene  00:19:26 Discussion of house layout – would killer have to be familiar  00:20:39 Talk about moving around rooms in the dark  00:21:53 Discussion about seeing size of rooms and 'ear' witness 00:24:15 Talk about effective documentation  00:26:23 Discussion about where suspect entered home  00:27:07 Discussion about room size  00:29:51 Talk about dynamic distribution of blood, being able to see it in context  00:31:32 Discussion of Jeffrey MacDonald case, jury saw murder scene in house  00:32:4 Talk about without house, no way to know where sound would go  00:33:51 Discussion comparing Gettysburg site to a house   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

4 Jan 202434min

Timothy Ferguson's mother calls police. Her son is unresponsive. Timothy Ferguson is also 15-years-old weighing just 69 pounds when he died of malnutrition and hypothermia.  Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they detail -Timothy Ferguson's painful life at the hands of his evil mother and brother. The teen lives on a diet of water and bread soaked in hot sauce,  followed by ice baths.        Transcript Highlights 00:00:00 Joseph Scott Morgan shares memories of Grandmother cooking chicken  00:04:15 Discussion of Timothy Ferguson, 15, starved to death by his mother 00:05:37 Discussion of food being used as mechanism for torture 00:06:52 Talk about Shanda Vander Ark fled Oklahoma with children 00:08:56 Explanation of how using food as a ‘kindness’  00:11:05 Talk about dark choices made by Shanda Vander Ark regarding her son  00:13:05 Discussion of Timothy’s older brother Paul being involved in the abuse 00:14:51 Joseph Scott Morgan describes “impact: injury – slapped, punched. 00:15:28 Talk about how common that one child will be chosen for abuse while other siblings abuse victim as well  00:16:14 Discussion about abuse,  malnutrition impossible to hide 00:17:15 How to determine how long Timothy was abused 00:18:35 Description - malnutrition can “stunt growth”.  00:20:40 Discussion of Shanda Vander Ark Defense, claims she had PTSD 00:21:51 Joseph Scott Morgan explains how Timothy Ferguson was digesting his own fat cells due to malnutrition  00:22:58 Timothy Ferguson’s body already compromised  00:26:41 Timothy Ferguson was given bread and water, and hot sauce for torture  00:27:56 Talk about hot sauce “Carolina Reaper” being placed on bread for Ferguson to eat  00:29:00 Discussion of Timothy Ferguson being kept in tiny room under stairs, developing bed sores  00:30:56 Description of Timothy Ferguson breathing out of his mouth like fish out of water  00:32:09 Discussion of Ice Bath’s used to punish Timothy Ferguson  00:33:28 Timothy Ferguson never recovered from last Ice Bath, cause of death – hypothermia and malnutrition  00:36:02 Discussion of food – mother chained refrigerator and cabinets in kitchen  00:38:00 Verdict - Shanda Vander Ark, guilty of murder, son Paul guilty of Child Abuse See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2 Jan 202438min

The opioid crisis has brought death and devastation to families all over the world and fentanyl has only made things worse. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will take a close look at three very different cases involving fentanyl that all have the same end result, death. A wife allegedly uses fentanyl as a weapon to kill her husband, a 20-year-old faces second-degree murder for giving a teen girl a pill with fentanyl, and a toddler is dead when he comes into contact with fentanyl in his daycare.        Transcript Highlights  00:00:00 Discussion: To be free from pain.  00:01:44 Talk about from Tylenol to Fentanyl   00:02:53 Discussion of population desiring to be free from pain, self-medicating   00:04:43 Talk about the opioid crisis  00:07:28 Discussion about the strength of fentanyl   00:10:16 Joe points out how fentanyl can be pressed into other drugs  00:11:51 Description of what an overdose from opioid looks like  00:13:01 Discussing three fentanyl related cases today; Kouri Richins, NYC daycare, and 15-year-old dead from pill  00:14:38 Talk about murder charge in death of 15-year-old girl 00:16:46 Discussion of coroner ruling drug overdose as a “homicide”  00:18:35 Talk about California case, 15-year-old dies from fentanyl  00:22:35 Discussion of pills made in a garage rather than a laboratory  00:23:43 Talk about a 22-month-old child in a daycare exposed to fentanyl  00:26:49 Discussion of “binders” used in making the pills 00:28:48 Description of toddlers in daycare with fentanyl kept directly underneath “nap mats”  00:30:58 Fentanyl used as weapon, tasteless, odorless  00:32:36 Talk about Kouri Richins alleged attempts to poison husband  00:34:33 How to determine if drug was taken as recreation or used as weapon  00:36:01 Discussion of opioid deaths  00:38:36 Talk about tox screen  00:40:28 Discussion of Fentanyl and therapeutic levels  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

28 Dec 202336min

When Camille Balla calls a coworker and says "I think I killed my mother", the coworker calls 911 on her way to Balla's mother's house. Police find a scene straight out of a horror movie as the follow a blood splatter trail leading to the body of Francisca Monteiro-Balla. Checking the body for vitals an officer notices something on a box a few feet away. It isn't something anyone expects to see, two eyeballs, sitting on a box, appearing to watch the officers as they try to save the life of Francisca Monteiro-Balla. Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they take a close-up look at a case that is just as scary and strange at the beginning as it is in the end.    Transcript Highlights 00:01:26 Joseph Scott Morgan compares Lewis Powell screaming “I am Mad” to  Camille Balla screaming “I am a murderer”  00:02:50 Talk about Police arrive to scene and find woman’s eyes removed  00:04:05 Dave Mack breaks down story of Camille Balla calls co-worker and tells her “I think I killed my mother”  00:06:12 Talk about County Jail versus prison  00:08:05 Discussion about Camille Balla screaming “I’m a murderer”  00:10:08 Discussion of bloody crime scene, eyeballs removed from victim, placed on cardboard box  00:11:25 Describing difference between blood “spatter” and blood “splatter”  00:13:46 Discussion about victim’s injuries  00:16:01 Talk about the fight between mother and daughter, and eyeballs removed from victim  00:17:56 Joe describes removal of eyeball  00:20:37 Discussion of suspect removing eyes from the front  00:22:43 Talk about Camille Balla claims to have smoked marijuana laced with Flocka prior to attack on her mother  00:26:12 Discussion of charges being reduced from First-Degree Murder to Manslaughter  00:28:34 Talk about broken glass around scene, blood from perpetrator and victim co-mingled making thing forensically more complicated  00:29:06 Camille Balla pleaded guilty to manslaughter, sentenced to 15-years in prison followed by 15-years on probation.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

26 Dec 202332min

An adult female body is found outside of Council Bluffs city limits. The body was found with bruises all over her body, a large laceration on her head, her body was  found frozen to the ground. Also, her face is missing. The body is of a woman who has been missing for 11 days, 60-year-old Ilene Gowan. Investigators will use everything at their disposal to determine how the grandmother ended up dead in a ditch without her face, and who is responsible for her death. Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they breakdown a case that includes forensics of a frozen body as well as the latest video surveillance tools that creates a timeline that builds a map leading right to the killer.   Transcript Highlights  00:00:06 Joseph Scott Morgan talks about scene of crime  00:02:42 Victim 60-year-old woman, without a face  00:04:00 Talk about victim and suspect relationship  00:06:22 Brammer does not report girlfriend missing  00:07:44 Talk about remains being discarded like trash  00:09:48 Discussion about alcohol and relationships   00:11:21 Victim is missing for 11 days   00:12:49 Talk about remains still frozen at autopsy  00:16:46 Discussion of weather on decomposition   00:18:32 Talk about arriving to scene of crime  00:22:54 Discussion about Pathologist in the field   00:24:01 Victim face is missing  00:27:19 Timeline: victim last seen on 13, reported missing on 15th  00:30:37 Discussion of Post-Mortem and Anti-Mortem  00:31:36 Video evidence of Brammer in truck with victim  00:33:34 Discussion of victim cause of death  00:34:39 Talk about wounds  00:37:10 Discussion about Dr. Michael Baden brought in for second opinion  00:38:50 Brammer deposits $1,500 in his bank account day Ilene is reported missing  00:39:46 Discussion about face missing due to animal life  00:41:46 Brammer has truck crushed and shredded  00:42:08 Brammer was found guilty of second-degree murder, abuse of a corpse, and second-degree theft.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

21 Dec 202341min

In Battle Creek, Michigan, Chad Allen Reed is the owner of a property. He lives on the bottom floor and rents out the top floor. He complains to everyone about the couple renting his upstairs,  Joe Soule and Jaclyn Lepird are loud at night and Reed doesn't like it. When Joe and Jaclyn vanish, everyone is looking for them, except for Chad Allen Reed. He is too busy trying to hide what he has done. His property burns 5 times in 7 days but Chad Allen Reed is being haunted by the smell. Two bodies, wrapped in plastic, hidden in the back of a pickup truck. When nobody solves the mystery of what happened to Joe Soule and Jaclyn Lepird, Chad Allen Reed calls the tip line himself, and tells them what happened! Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack  break down the story of the Murdering Landlord and find out what evidence is left behind when two people are murdered on grass in a yard.        Transcript Highlights    00:00:07 Joseph Scott Morgan shares a renting nightmare   00:04:23 discussion of landlord complaining about tenant  00:05:20 Joe talks about trauma and evidence left behind at the scene  00:07:58 Landlord confronted tenants over noise   00:10:37 Discussion of the matter of cutting and bludgeoning someone  00:12:25 Talk about postmortem interval   00:13:23 Chad Allen Read shoots Joe Soule, shoots Jaclyn Lepird in the back  00:15:38 Discussion about Read beating Lepird with a pipe  00:16:37 Joe explains “Bullet Wipe”  00:18:32 Discussion about evidence left in yard  00:19:42 Talk about 2 people missing  00:21:51 Evidence left behind by 2 victims  00:23:31 Explanation of how bodies are examined in morgue  00:25:44 Discussion about perpetrators not putting distance between themselves and their victims  00:27:49 Bodies wrapped in plastic create more evidence  00:29:18 Talk about 5 fires in 7 days   00:30:13 Chad Allen Read calls the tipline himself   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

19 Dec 202330min

Joseph Scott Morgan takes you on a trip to Louisiana, and a young couple, tied up, with kettlebells tied to their feet, being driven up a high bridge, and pushed out at the apex, not to die from falling 10 stories, but to drown after the fall. Join Joe Scott Morgan and Dave Mack for a show that stretches from Louisiana to Atlanta, a recording studio, a Walmart,  a side hustle in prison, and great police work to bring to justice the evil that wants to be a star.         Transcript Highlights  00:00:46 Talk about Gravity = the dominant force in our life.  00:02:09 Talk about Gravity, leading up a bridge  00:03:13Discussion about murder by drowning  00:03:54 Talk about being In Louisiana.  00:05:21 the death of Lakeitha and Kenneth Joseph.  00:06:16 Couple missing three weeks  00:07:14 Talk about searching for missing couple  00:08:55 Discussion of levels of grief  00:11:52 Joe shares knowledge of the geography of the area  00:14:22 Talk about “prune” fingers as a child in pool  00:15:02 The lake is brackish, salt and fresh  00:17:14 Is it possible to determine how long a body has been in water?  000:20:58 Kenneth borrows a van, becomes big clue  00:24:37 Police work: Kettle Bells branded by golds gym, only at Walmart  00:25:46 How long does it take for a body to come to surface  00:28:42 Discussion about rope  00:30:12 Talk about Lakeitha leg being broken  00:31:31 Discussion of kettle bells  00:35:19 Talk about bodies in water  00:36:40 Borrowed van turns up in Atlanta  00:37:44 Discussion about Rapper managed by ex-convict  00:39:44 Prison Guard in relationship with prisoner  00:41:56 Murdered for being a witness  00:43:06 Talk about worst way to die See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

14 Dec 202340min

A family moves to the country to get away from the crime of the big city only to find that evil exists in small towns and big cities alike. A 17-year-old girl develops a close bond to a harmless older neighbor. But the harmless old man is really a wolf in sheeps clothing and when the 17-year-old goes missing the neighbor helps look as hard as anyone. As long as nobody comes to his house to look too close. For 173 days the girl is missing, her heartbroken parents don't realize she is only 100 feet away from their front door. Buried in a homemade box, just for her.  Joseph Scott Morgan breaks down the case of the teen girl hidden away in a homemade coffin and how difficult it will be to get the evidence to determine what really caused her death. Dave Mack joins in on the search for facts, and Valerie Tindall.   Transcript  00:01:02 Discussion of 173 days without knowing location of your child  00:02:26 Valerie Tindall, 17, and missing  00:03:29 Mother said Patrick Scott acted like jealous boyfriend  00:04:21 Discussion of age difference  00:06:55 Valerie Tindall is missing  00:10:00 Talk about Forensic Anthropology  00:11:28 Disturbed areas of soil in backyard   00:12:30 17-year-old girl bonds with 59-year-old man, odd  00:13:22 What does FBI mean to a case  00:14:32 The neighbor Valerie has “bond” with charged with lying to police  00:16:03 Discussion of providing false hope to lure out suspect  00:17:24 Investigators wonder if someone is helping her stay gone  00:18:29 Victim has been missing since June  00:22:24 Bright Orange fingernail polish Valerie Tindall was wearing  00:23:29 Taking down a structure, burning, why?  00:27:17 Talk about the VHS tapes found in box  00:29:11 Discussion of murder weapon, a belt  00:30:56 Suspect claims he is the victim?   00:32:29 Discussion about condition of the body   00:33:39 Why did the suspect dig holes in his property?  00:35:17 Talk about the story from the suspect does not make sense  00:36:35 Some evidence might have been lost  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

12 Dec 202335min