A Mother's Discovery

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Summers hears a rumor that "something" has happened to her adult daughter, Tara Capps. Tara is a free spirit but she maintains regular contact with the family. Virginia files a missing person report and begins looking for 36-year-old Tara. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how difficult it is to find forensic evidence in a homeless encampment, and Dave Mack will fill in the details of how the family searched, and found, Tara Capps.

Transcript Highlights
00:14.80 Introduction of Tara Capps story
04:20.08 Discussion of camping and homeless camps
07:56.22 Discussion of searching for missing adult
12:12.03 Talk about mother getting tip about missing daughter
16:50.90 Discussion of homeless camp near body location
23:33.33 Discussion of decomposed body found between two living men
27:08.41 Talk about truth of what happened to Tara will come out
31:43.75 Discussion of Remains sealed inside plastic tote
36:25.48 Talk about evidence in the area
40:15.04 Discussion of how body was covered
42:28.16 Conclusion Family of Tara Capps needs answers

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0:00.0	Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:06.0	Most of the time, when I'm going about my daily routine
0:11.0	around the house or maybe at work or maybe if I'm getting out at the gas station.
0:17.7	I might discard something. I know I do it a lot, my wife. My wife looks at me many times and says,
0:28.3	do you actually need this? I say, no, honey, I really don't. She's like, well throw it away.
0:34.0	And being the compliant husband that I am, most of the time I do that.
0:40.0	I make my way to the trash and of course take the trash out to the yard I mean out to the
0:47.5	curb when it's time for the trash to be picked up. You don't really think too much
0:52.4	about it most of the time unless it's drawn to your attention or it gets in the way or whatever the case might be.
1:00.0	But when it comes to the life of a woman, a 36 year old woman with five children. How does that factor into this? Who would make a choice to discard her who would make the choice to essentially entomb her in a plastic container and cover her with a blanket and a wooded area in Indiana.
1:49.4	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.
1:55.0	Dave, did you spend much time camping?
1:59.0	So funny that you would talk about it like that Joe,
2:02.0	because I know your experience with
2:03.8	homeless camps in Atlanta I know my own personal experience with homeless
2:07.1	camps I do like to camp but camping in a tent with a sleeping bag knowing you're doing it for the weekend and going home,
2:15.0	is different than the lifestyle of homelessness.
2:19.0	There are all types of reasons people find themselves homeless.
2:22.0	Tarot Caps was a 36 year old mother of five who from time to time would live in a homeless camp.
2:29.4	Even though she had family loved her, welcomed her into their home, she would choose to be around
2:34.4	her homeless friends and be in those homeless camps.
2:38.0	And June 28th, Virginia Summers, that's Tara Caps mother, Virginia Summers, here hears a rumor that something has happened to Tara.
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