1994 John Doe Cold Case Murder Victim Identified! Killer Still Loose
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On January 8, 1994, a person walking a wooded area off of State Highway 225 in Baldwin County, Alabama, spotted skeletal remains with items scattered about the scene: A trucker hat that said America By Birth, Texan by Grace Of God, a western shirt, an inhaler, a digital watch, dark pair of prescription, bifocal glasses, a mechanical pen and pencil set, as well as a torch tip. Investigation revealed the person was a victim of a homicide and detectives believe the murder happened in 1988 or 1989, but detectives were unable to identify the victim. The investigation stalled and the case went cold. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take on the case of "Baldwin County John Doe" a case that was cold for decades, but not forgotten. Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences working with local law enforcement Submit Forensic evidence to OTHRAM, and after 30 years, "Baldwin County John Doe" has a name, and his family has some peace.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:14.3 | A long, long time ago, I was fortunate enough to be able to serve my country in the Army National Guard. |
| 0:22.7 | And as a result of being in the National Guard, again, many, many years ago, when you go out and do field exercises or what they're called, or FTXs, and this predates the days of the dehydrated food, which is you got a lot of these in the MREs. |
| 0:41.7 | We were still using C rats back then. |
| 0:44.0 | Sea rats were something that went back to, I think, Korea. |
| 0:48.6 | It had K rats before that, but C rats came in little cardboard boxes. |
| 1:12.5 | And we in the guard you always got hand me down so we would get sea rats believe it or not in the 80s that were vietnam era sea rats and so it would be canned food that had been canned for troops in Vietnam and probably had never been used. |
| 1:17.9 | But one of the interesting things that I discovered about C-Rats was this. |
| 1:23.7 | In every one of those boxes that you opened up, you never knew what kind of meal you were going to get. |
| 1:25.4 | Franks and Beans was actually my favorite. |
| 1:30.2 | There would be a miniature pack of cigarettes. |
| 1:36.4 | And we got a kick out of opening those up, you know, as young kids and the guard, |
| 1:40.5 | and then you open up the box and the things, of course, the cigarettes would just like crumble in your hand, but you would still eat the food. |
| 1:44.2 | And many of our troops, going back a long, long time ago, |
| 1:49.5 | even back to World War I became hooked on cigarettes as a result of their time and service |
| 1:56.8 | in the U.S. military. |
| 1:58.6 | There's even a famous image of Red Cross nurses handing out cigarettes to World War I troops |
| 2:04.9 | off of the back of a flatbed. |
| 2:07.6 | Today, we're going to talk about a man who once was a young troop, a man that served in the United |
| 2:16.7 | States Marine Corps back in the |
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