A Tooth Tells the Story: The Disappearance of Crystal Rasch
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Crystal Rasch is missing and her husband is using her bank card to purchase cleaning supplies. He also fails to report his estranged wife missing. Joseph Scott Morgan explains the cleaning materials used as well as the type of experts that have to be brought in when investigators suspect a victim has been cremated in a backyard burn pile. Dave Mack will help uncover the relationship that left Crystal Rasch identified by a single tooth and her husband in jail. The trial has yet to happen but this is the first part of the story of Crystal and Zachariah Rasch.
Transcribe Highlights
00:13.30 Introduction - back from London
01:00.71 Strangers in London tell Joe to watch for "pickpockets"
05:03.49 The married couple had separate bank accounts
09:55.96 Working a case from back to front
15:08.97 CCTV Records coupled with receipts from purchases
20:29.75 Wife missing, husband admits spending her money with her card
25:57.18 List of searches done on phone, gunshot wound to head vs chest
29:51.13 Search warrant explanation
35:07.58 Evidence found in a car, what to take out
39:31.91 Relationships between law enforcement and experts
44:02.09 Investigators find a tooth
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| 0:00.0 | Body facts that Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:06.0 | I just got back from Great Britain. |
| 0:09.0 | I spent most of the time that I was over there in London and people over there just |
| 0:15.3 | remarkably friendly and here's why I know. |
| 0:21.3 | Um, they didn't have to do this but on three separate occasions I had total strangers |
| 0:28.2 | walk up to me and tell me to take my phone out of my back pocket and put it inside of my jacket. And the reason they told me that is that there |
| 0:38.9 | were a lot of pick pockets around and apparently this is a huge thing in London and I just didn't really think |
| 0:45.5 | about it is something that you don't think about here in America that much I |
| 0:48.4 | guess maybe if you live in New York but certainly certainly not in Alabama. |
| 0:53.6 | And I thought, how horrible would that be |
| 0:55.8 | to have your pocket picked? |
| 0:57.4 | And then somebody use your credit cards to buy things that they'd always wanted. Now let's take |
| 1:07.1 | that and think a little bit about the case I'm going to tell you about today. |
| 1:12.2 | Imagine if you will you're about the case I'm going to tell you about today. |
| 1:13.0 | Imagine if you will, your lady who is estranged from your husband hadn't been together in a while. |
| 1:26.0 | And then he kills you. |
| 1:30.0 | He takes your credit cards |
| 1:38.6 | and goes out and purchases cleaning supplies with them to clean up the mess that he created from your homicide. That's what we're dealing with today. In the case of Crystal Rosh. |
| 1:51.0 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags. |
| 1:57.0 | Brother Dave you ever had your pocket picked? |
| 1:59.0 | When you were talking about that I thought what a nice group of people because we haven't |
| 2:04.3 | been you and I at Joe and I live very near one another geographically speaking |
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