Bricen Rivers nearly beat his girlfriend to death in their car in Nashville while on a romantic weekend getaway. Jailed with bond set high enough so he couldn't get out, his victim, Lauren Johansen, is recovering in Mississippi when a judge lowers Rivers bond, and lets him out to finish what he started. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgen will explain the horrible injuries  Lauren sustained in the first beating in Nashville, while Dave Mack breaks down the backstory on the relationship that was so toxic, Lauren Johansen winds up dead in the back of her own car in the middle of a cemetery.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:04.19 Introduction - Being a parent, Father .
00:04:26.07 Discussion of abusive relationship 
00:09:20.25 Talking about parenting a child in abusive relationship
00:13:39.86 Discussion of Nashville trip, how much effort it would take
00:18:40.36 Talk seeing trauma in hospital
00:23:22.52 Discussion or rocks as a weapon, pistol whipping
00:28:29.50 Discussion of wound to Lauren's head at hairline
00:32:02.27 Talk about man abusing woman, judge lowering bond
00:36:15.69 Discussion of Lauren being kidnapped from home
00:40:38.20 Discussion of wounds Lauren suffered before death
00:43:48.59 Talk about Lauren wasn't recovered from December 11 beating
00:46:41.34 Conclusion Lauren's father helped recover her body

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Cleo Loizides is 81-years-old and living in a senior care facility in Virginia. After a visit from her daughter, 53 and grandson, 24, an orderly finds her stiff and cold to the touch. In this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain what happens when someone in a senior care facility passes away and how to tell the difference between a natural death and a murder. Dave Mack will look at the history of the family that begins with Cleo Loizides as a Model in the 1960s and ends with her death in 2024. 

Transcribe Highlights

00:00:02.39 Introduction - circle of life
00:01:07.72 Discussion of murder of 81-year-old woman
00:04:46.47 Discussion of Cleo Loizides found dead on floor
00:09:59.22 Talk about people in care facility
00:14:43.59 Discussion of nursing home deaths being investigated
00:19:44.18 Discussion of Elder abuse
00:22:30.18 Discussion of health, getting her own food, not needing help
00:26:10.21 Talk about knowing a body is dead
00:31:19.24 Discussion of daughter and grandson visiting
00:35:07.92 Discussion of cause of death
00:39:02.45 Discussion of daughter and grandson confess to murder
00:41:16.31 Conclusion Cleo deserved a better end

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Virginia Summers hears a rumor that "something" has happened to her adult daughter, Tara Capps. Tara is a free spirit but she maintains regular contact with the family. Virginia files a missing person report and begins looking for 36-year-old Tara. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how difficult it is to find forensic evidence in a homeless encampment, and Dave Mack will fill in the details of how the family searched, and found, Tara Capps. 

Transcript Highlights
00:14.80 Introduction of Tara Capps story
04:20.08 Discussion of camping and homeless camps
07:56.22 Discussion of searching for missing adult
12:12.03 Talk about mother getting tip about missing daughter
16:50.90 Discussion of homeless camp near body location
23:33.33 Discussion of decomposed body found between two living men
27:08.41 Talk about truth of what happened to Tara will come out
31:43.75 Discussion of Remains sealed inside plastic tote
36:25.48 Talk about evidence in the area
40:15.04 Discussion of how body was covered
42:28.16 Conclusion Family of Tara Capps needs answers

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When Travis McBride was in his teens, he got in trouble with the law over anger issues. As an adult he opens a successful therapy practice focusing on Anger Management.  The subject of this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, the alleged murder of a homeless man by an anger management therapist. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how blood will spread from a body to the trunk area of a vehicle and onto pavement.  Dave Mack investigates the background of the victim and finds Clinton Dorsey was married with three adult children and eight grandchildren. Was Clinton Dorsey really murdered by an Anger Management Therapist? 

Transcript Highlights 

00:00:00 Introduction College choices 

00:04:21 Discussion Anger Management Therapist  

00:06:51 Discussion about applying education to life 

00:11:01 Talk about Anger Management therapist having anger issues 

00:16:24 Discussion of suspects previous charges  

00:21:38 Explaining charges  

00:26:04 Discussion of therapist charged with homicide 

00:33:17 Talk about how suspect cleaned blood in street 

00:38:26 Discussion about leaving blood around side area of car trunk 

00:40:03 Discussion of post-mortem lividity 

00:44:16 Conclusion - will update after the case goes to court 

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A former Mayor with 28 years of law enforcement experience has been charged with first-degree murder in a triple homicide. In this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will break down the weapons used in the murders and the possibility that one of the victims died while he was on the phone with 911. Dave Mack will try and explain what happened four days before the shooting  that may have led to the murders. 

Transcript Highlights 

00:00:00 Introduction people seeking power 

00:02:12 Discussion ex-mayor suspect triple homicide 

00:07:45 Discussion Triple homicide, 911 caller goes silent on call 

00:12:21 Talk about different types of guns 

00:17:35 Discussion suspect shows up with multiple weapons 

00:22:12 Discussion triple homicide occurs four days after event that led to it 

00:27:14 Discussion of defense strategy for shooting three people 

00:33:17 Talk about suspect showing up armed, left home enraged 

00:38:26 Discussion of victims shot with different guns 

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Sandra Pagniano vanishes from her home in the middle of the night while her husband and daughters are asleep. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how handwriting analysis broke the case wide open, while Dave Mack digs into the fractured marriage of David and Sandra Pagniano. All signs point to one suspect and one location where Sandra Pagniano was bound, gagged, and buried alive in a hand dug grave.  

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00 Introduction, history, writing, buried alive  

00:03:22 Discussion or “Person of Interest” 

00:06:21 Discussion of “notes” Jon Benet Ramsay note 

00:11:01 Talk about handwriting analysis 

00:16:15 Discussion of documents 

00:21:22 Discussion of obvious suspects 

00:24:19 Discussion of cadaver dogs 

00:26:32 Talk about using cell towers to track location 

00:31:41 Discussion – how to tell someone was buried alive 

00:35:29 Discussion kidnapped from her house, buried alive 

00:39:13 Conclusion – Life in Prison 

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17-year-old Kaitlyn Coones is a runaway from a group home in Canton, Ohio, and is staying with Jonathon Jones, 33, at his mother's residence. Nicole Jones, 53, mother of Jonathon Jones, is unaware that her son has snuck a teen into his bedroom.  Days later, Kaitlyn Jones calls a case worker at the Canton group home informing her she has done something terrible and is on the road with Jonathon Jones. Canton Police call for a welfare check and officers discover Nicole Jones has vanished. Jones car, her son Jonathon, and Kaitlyn Coones are also missing.

In this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, Joe explains what evidence,  recovered by investigators, lead police to say Nicole Jones is dead  Dave Mack goes behind the headlines explaining  the relationship dynamic between Jonathon Jones and Kaitlyn Coones to determine if the teen is a victim, a suspect, or both. 

Transcript Highlights 

00:00:03 Introduction – teen kidnapped, mother missing, convicted son being sought 

00:04:47 Discussion of missing mom’s car tracked to Arizona and New Mexico 

00:07:52 Talk about attention focus when child is involved 

00:11:47 Discussion of 33-year-old man sneaks teen into his bedroom 

00:16:59 Discussion of Jonathon Jones and Kaitlyn Coones 

00:22:29 Talk about Nicole Jones being murdered in kitchen 

00:27:18 Discussion of circumstantial evidence 

00:32:30 Discussion about rock used as murder weapon 

00:36:44 Talk about Kaitlyn Coones giving Jonathon Jones 5 hours to kill 

00:40:03 Discussion of using GPS to track movement of suspects 

00:42:03 Discussion of blood and hair evidence 

00:44:02 Discussion of Jonathon Jones failure to disarm GPS tracker 

00:45:51 Talk about focus on Kaitlyn Coones being underage victim and suspect 

00:46:56 Conclusion Nicole Jones body will never be found, Jones and Coones are in prison 

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Mary Catherine Edwards is found naked and in handcuffs in her bathtub with about 4 inches of water. She has been sexually assaulted and murdered. Cause of death is drowning and asphyxia. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how the case that went unsolved for nearly 30-years was solved with DNA, Genetic Genealogy and a tip of the cap to Othram . Dave Mack will help tell the story of the 31-year-old beloved schoolteacher and the killer who almost got away with her murder.  

Transcript Highlights 

00:00:06 Introduction of Cold Case Murder  

00:05:42 Discussion of shutting down crime scene 

00:09:44 Talk about Parents discovering body of their daughter 

00:13:27 Discussion of motivation 

00:18:01 Talk about “torture” 

00:22:21 Discussion of cause of death, drowning and asphyxia 

00:27:30 Discussion of drowning in bathtub 

00:31:23 Discussion of Shera LaPoint, the Gene Hunter 

00:35:33 Talk about familiarity between victim and suspect 

00:39:20 Discussion of DNA and genetic genealogy 

00:41:52 Discussion of Rape Kit 

00:46:35 Conclusion: DNA Solves  

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Six years before he became known as the Day Trader who went on a murderous rampage, Mark Barton was the suspect in the death of his first wife and her mother while they were camping at a lake in North Alabama. Today, Joseph Scott Morgan shares  personal memories of working the homicides in Atlanta, as well as breaking down the murders of Mark Barton’s first wife and her mother in the camper, and his second wife and children in their apartment.. Dave Mack fills in the back-story on how Mark Barton may have gotten away with murder and child molestation, but he couldn’t escape himself.  

Transcript Highlights 

00:00:08 Introduction of geography, family killer, mass murderer 

00:02:46 Discussion of Mark Barton 

00:07:21 Discussion of murderers and weapons 

00:11:44 Talk about day traders in Atlanta 

00:16:04 Discussion of murder in camper trailer on lake 

00:21:17 Discussion of “robber” that left behind cash and jewelry 

00:26:26 Talk about blood in the Camper 

00:31:02 Discussion of Mark Barton cheating on his wife 

00:35:57 Discussion of timeline of family murders and Buckhead massacre 

00:39:49 Discussion of Barton killing second wife and children with a hammer 

00:43:06 Discussion of murders at Momentum and All-Tech 

00:46:20 Conclusion, Barton shoots himself in the head 

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Skeletal remains found near the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee don't match up with any missing person cases in Chattanooga or the surrounding area. It takes several months before the remains are positively identified. On this episode of Body Bags,  Joseph Scott Morgan will take you into the field where the remains have been found and into the lab where identification takes place, and Dave Mack will look into the facts surrounding the disappearance of the 20-year-old beauty from Georgia and how she ended up as a skeleton on the side of a rural road outside Chattanooga Tennessee. 

Transcript Highlights 

00:00:25 Introduction of 20-year-old woman, missing 

00:04:07 Discussion of geography of the case 

00:07:20 Discussion of picking up body in jail 

00:11:51 Talk about Fentanyl becoming drug of choice 

00:16:13 Discussion of drugs and dealers 

00:20:48 Discussion of reporting missing person 

00:24:16 Talk about the deposition of the body 

00:28:08 Discussion of trauma on the bones 

00:32:32 Discussion explaining forensic anthropology at the scene 

00:37:13 Discussion of being absent of clothing 

00:41:40 Conclusion – Case is still open; we will follow up 

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Bonnie and Clyde killed at least nine police officers and four civilians during their 21-month crime spree from 1932 to 1934. The couple were also responsible for several Bank robberies, gas stations hold-ups , and burglaries. They weren't very good thieves, as they rarely got away with more than $80. In this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how Bonnie Parker suffered so many bullet holes her body had to be plugged to hold embalming fluid, and Dave Mack will take you behind the scenes in the woods with Frank Hamer and Manny Gault as they brought down the  murderous "Bonnie and Clyde".

Transcript Highlights 

00:00:10 Introduction of human destruction 

00:02:09 Description of Bienville Parish 

00:05:24 Description of Bonnie and Clyde car on display 

00:08:14 Discussion Bonnie 23, Clyde 25 

00:11:15 Talk about Bonnie and Clyde murder young cop 

00:15:11 Discussion about State Coroners convention 

00:18:05 Discussion about transcribing 

00:21:32 Talk about Bonnie and Clyde murdering cops 

00:25:57 Discussion of BB Episode about Coroner system 

00:28:21 Talk about autopsy of famous people 

00:31:41 Discussion of Dr. Wade and others at the autopsy 

00:35:00 Discussion of injuries suffered by Bonnie Parker 

00:37:42 Conclusion: Bonnie and Clyde meet their end 

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