'86 Cold Case: Golf Pro Found, Scissors in Her Ear, Brain Stabbed. SOLVED!

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When Sarah Hunter, 32, doesn't show up for work at the Manchester Country Club, a coworker calls police to do a "welfare check". Nothing out of place in her rented room, and the only clue is her car found parked in an odd way at a gas station. The case goes cold but never forgotten. 39-years after she was foun dead, the investigators who never gave up, get a confession! Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at the Cold Case Murder and kidnapping and find out why it took so long to hold someone accountable for the 1986 murder of Golf Pro Sarah Hunter, and the 1981 kidnapping attempt of Laura Sheridan.David Allen Morrison, 65, has pleaded guilty to the 1986 murder of Vermont golfer Sarah Hunter and the 1981 kidnapping of a Western Massachusetts teen, Laura Sheridan. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at the Cold Case Murder and kidnapping and find out why it took so long to hold someone accountable.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.07 Introduction - Golf

02:04.09 1986 Cold Case Murder solved

04:50.04 Investigators build timeline

10:07.19 Weapon of convenience

14:57.08 Murder of Sarah Hunter

20:05.24 Multiple Sharp force stab wounds

25:07.39 Plan was to sexually assault Hunter at gas station

29:58.05 Clothing taken off, grasping something with her hand

34:44.50 Will other victims be found?

37:43.29 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human.
0:05.7	Quality Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:10.0	Some of my fondest memories, I think, probably were, as a young man, were going to a golf course.
0:16.2	And it wasn't just any golf course.
0:18.1	It was a golf course that sat right in the center of uptown New Orleans.
0:22.6	And it's what's referred to as an executive golf course. And essentially what that means is that instead of a standard par-seventy-two course,
0:29.6	this course was either a 68 or a 69 par. And what that means is that the holes were shorter and that this was actually a
0:39.0	walkable course. It was, as I found that later, it was a great course for an old guy, which back
0:44.8	then, of course, I was young. But I was just learning golf. And so I could just go around this
0:49.1	thing as many times as I wanted to, hitting the ball in the hot South Louisiana sun, trying to avoid water, which you know
0:57.0	there's no hills down there, so they put water all over the place.
1:00.0	I had what were called hydrophilic balls.
1:03.0	They seemed to find the water all the time.
1:06.0	But you know, I had a lot of peace out there, And the reason is that it wasn't just the time that I spent
1:14.7	walking around the Auduban Park Golf Course.
1:18.7	It was the people I met.
1:21.4	It was like back then, the World War II veterans that were still around.
1:26.0	I played golf with a guy who only
1:28.4	had one arm, had lost an arm in a European theater, and was one of the best ball strikers
1:35.3	I'd ever been around. Couldn't hit it far, but it was always down the middle, and of course
1:39.0	he had a good story to go along with it.
1:41.1	But the person that influenced me the most was a golf pro, who was at the end of his career.
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