12 Dead Bodies in 22 Months: Does Austin Have A Serial Killer?
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
At least 12 bodies have been pulled from "Lady Bird Lake" in Austin, Texas in the last 22 months. Some can be explained as deaths that happen on or near a lake, but not all. On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan will break down the difference between a regular death in a lake and a possible serial killer, while Dave Mack breaks down the stories behind the victims.
Transcript Highlights
00:16.18 Introduction about water and murder
03:37.66 Discussion does Austin have a serial killer?
08:13.12 Discussion what does "serial killer" do to an area
13:22.11 Talk about other serial killers, were they really caught
17:54.47 Talk about witnessing a death on the water
22:03.17 Discussion of toxicology
27:53.13 Discussion of victims
32:38.32 Talk about water as a dumping ground
36:26.16 Discussion of decomposition in water
40:04.57 Talk about water flow
47:42.83 Discussion about rumors over fact
Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | In the 90s, New York Detective Louis Scarcella locked up the worst criminals. |
| 0:04.7 | Putting bad guys away. |
| 0:06.3 | There's no feeling like it. |
| 0:08.0 | Then jailhouse lawyers took game led by Derek Hamilton. |
| 0:11.5 | Scracella took me to the precinct and alive. |
| 0:14.3 | 20 men eventually walked free. |
| 0:16.6 | Now, in the Burden Podcast, after a decade of silence, |
| 0:20.6 | Louis Scarsella finally tells his story, and so does Derek Hamilton. |
| 0:25.0 | Listen to the burden on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. lasts. |
| 0:42.0 | with Joseph Scott Morgan. |
| 0:57.6 | Anybody that knows me knows that over the past years I've developed a real love of water. And I don't mean to say that in the sense that I finally discovered showering for the first time in life. What I mean by that is the fact that I acquired an old boat. |
| 1:07.0 | It's nothing fancy. It's good enough for me and my precious wife. |
| 1:12.0 | And I spent a lot of time on a local river. |
| 1:14.3 | Just cruising up and down it. Sometimes we anchor out in a little cove |
| 1:18.3 | and there's actually these little islands on this river that we go to and we'll kind of ground a boat and build a fire and sit there |
| 1:27.7 | and just talk about life and listen to music. Matter of fact, probably my favorite thing to listen to is Van Morrison while I'm sitting there. |
| 1:35.0 | I could listen to him for hours. |
| 1:37.4 | But today I'm going to talk about another river and actually a lake that is part of the bigger river is what we call an |
| 1:46.3 | impoundment. The river is actually the Colorado River and I think that just by |
| 1:51.8 | name alone you would probably think oh wow this must run right through the heart of the Rocky Mountains and no it doesn't. |
| 2:00.0 | It actually is a few states away. |
| 2:03.7 | It runs through Texas. |
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