2007 Cold Case: Body Parts Found Burning, Head/Hands/Feet Missing! Solved 2026! Death of Nicole Alston
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On December 6, 2007, the fire department in Troup County Georgia was called to a rural county road after two bags were found on fire.
Extinguishing the blaze, firefighters find dismembered human remains inside the bags. The body had been cut into 13 pieces, and the head, hands and feet, were all missing.
Investigators failed to identify the body at the time, but did not give up.
Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go over the evidence found in the bags and how it was used, 18-years later, to identify the woman....and open a case that leads to murder, stolen identity, and fraud.
Transcribe Highlights
00:00.12 Introduction - Tedious
01:30.39 80 charges, woman accused of killing girlfriend
02:43.51 The things in life that require tedious checking of facts
03:40.38 Nicole Alston, 24, missing, replaced by Angel Thompson
06:04.36 Fire Dept called, two bags on fire, bags contain body parts
10:41.24 Head, hands, and feet are missing
13:41.24 Prevent identification of body, steal identity
19:07.67 Legs will not be mistaken for a dog
24:44.58 Determine if female has had a child
29:45.21 We don't know about murder, we know dismembered and burned
35:01.34 Investigators preserved what they found in 2007
36:18.07 Alston identified after sister entered DNA into public site
40:21.61 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:09.8 | Some things in life are just absolutely tedious. |
| 0:15.1 | I love that. |
| 0:15.7 | I love that word. |
| 0:16.7 | Absolutely love that word, tedious. |
| 0:22.6 | It's such an all-encompassing phrase. |
| 0:25.6 | You know, it goes to, you know, taking a lot of time to do something, |
| 0:30.6 | or the work that you're having to do is so overwhelming just by sheer numbers |
| 0:36.6 | that boredom sets in, those sorts of things. |
| 0:40.3 | And that happens a lot in investigations because you've got so much data coming in that |
| 0:47.3 | you're trying to process it and you're trying to, you know, hang your proverbial investigative |
| 0:52.3 | and scientific hat on it, sometimes it's hard to |
| 0:56.0 | to really mold it into something. It's almost like working with super wet clay. |
| 1:04.0 | Today, I want to talk about a case that is tedious for many reasons. I think one of the elements of tedium that comes along with this is time. |
| 1:14.1 | Another element is confusion. And I think finally, this idea of tedium is demonstrated through the fact that the perpetrator in this case has had over 80 |
| 1:31.3 | charges filed against her. Oh, I forgot to mention something. She killed her girlfriend |
| 1:40.3 | and chopped her up into little bits. |
| 1:45.8 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is body bags. |
| 1:53.5 | You know, Dave, I don't think I could be an airline pilot. |
| 1:57.5 | And this is, other than the fact, I've got bad eyes. |
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