A Rope, A Rock, and A River: The Death of Audrii Cunningham

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Audrii Cunningham leaves for the school bus stop just like every morning, but that afternoon she doesn't get off the bus. The family panics. Police are called, and an Amber Alert goes out. Neighbors go door to door. A family friend living in a camper in the backyard of Audrii's house, joins in the search.

Police find out McDougal was the last person to see Audrii, at the time he was supposed to take her the bus stop. Audrii never got on the bus. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will break down the story of the search and ultimate discovery of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, found tied to a rock, thrown in the Trinity River on this edition of Body Bags.

Transcription highlights
00:20.72 Introduction of the case of Audrii Cunningham

01:54.67 Audrii's body tied to rock

03:57.40 Suspect was supposed to drive Audrii to bus stop05:50.16 Audrii was found in general area where her backpack was found

08:31.50 Officials had to ask for river flow to be reduced

12:08.84 Different groups have to share credit in finding Audrii

15:55.43 How will they figure out what McDougal did?

20:14.33 Investigators have not told us the condition of Audrii's body

24:14.42 Discussion of what may have happened to Audrii

28:09.19 Discussion of the company we keep, did her dad know what kind of criminal McDougal is

33:50.15 Talk about how her body may been like a kite on a string

38:07.95 Discussion about DNA under fingernails of Audrii

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0:00.0	bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. It were better for him that a millstone were hanged.
0:20.0	It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea
0:32.2	than that he should offend one of these little ones.
0:40.2	That's from the King James Version, Luke 17 to.
0:46.2	That's a message from Christ.
0:50.3	Referring to, I think, probably, and I'm no biblical scholar, but how you treat those individuals that are God's children,
1:02.0	that you should offend millstone tied around your neck and thrown
1:11.1	into the sea just imagine that for a. I don't know if you've ever seen a
1:15.3	millstone, but it's massive. No chance of surviving that.
1:32.0	But I do want to talk about someone, a precious little girl that did have a stone tied to her. And she wasn't cast into the sea, but interestingly enough, she was
1:39.6	discarded and placed into the Trinity River.
1:47.0	God was watching.
1:50.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is body bags.
1:56.0	Day, Mac, one of my best memories was
2:01.0	taking my kids, we used to live in a town called the Lonaga Georgia people
2:06.0	sometimes pronounce it Dalinago of course that's not the case it's up in the
2:10.1	mountains in North Georgia.
2:14.1	I taught school up there many years for a decade.
2:18.0	And we would go over to the town of Helen, Georgia.
2:21.0	And just outside of Helen there was a
2:24.5	an old-fashioned grist mill and it was
2:28.7	It's the sautee mill I think is the name of it. I can't remember and they had a big trout pond or
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