44-Years of Mystery, Dismembered Torso Identified, “You Found My Brother”
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
A bag with a burned, dismembered torso is found by a boy out for a horseback ride about a mile from town. The police chief says he was mowing his lawn when he got the call about the headless, armless, legless, burned torso, and from that moment on it was "chaos". On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will tell the story of the dismembered and burned torso and how, after 44-years, he was finally identified with DNA and Othram labs.
Transcript Highlights
00:00:00 Introduction of episode
00:02:13 Talk about identifying Joseph Caliva
00:06:15 Discussion of years beginning in 1979
00:10:40 Talk about dismemberment
00:15:48 Discussion of what was found
00:17:39 Talk about burned remains
00:22:25 Discussion about trying to ID person
00:27:25 Talk about finding portions of the torso
00:31:54 Talk about creating a person out of evidence
00:36:34 Discussion after 44 years, victim identified
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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. |
| 1:00.0 | Believe it or not, I'm actually a fan of the band Smashing Pumpkins. People might find that kind of strange. There's something that's surreal about them, it's weird, |
| 1:08.0 | the way their songs were written. |
| 1:12.0 | And there's one song in particular that I like |
| 1:16.2 | and I think that it has a lot to do with a period of time in my life |
| 1:21.2 | when I was a kid back in junior high school, you know, on the cusp of going |
| 1:25.9 | into senior high school. |
| 1:28.3 | It's a song 1979. |
| 1:31.0 | And it kind of evokes memories of freedom and you know not really having a care in the world |
| 1:38.5 | being a knucklehead that sort of thing and I enjoy that song for some reason it's it's kind of put a hook in my |
| 1:45.8 | brain and every now and then I'll have to listen to it. In 1979 was an interesting |
| 1:51.8 | period of time I think think, in our country. |
| 1:54.7 | We're going through political changes and societal changes and all that, |
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