ARREST! 1984 RAPIST, MURDERER OF 18-YEAR-OLDS, CAUGHT AFTER 40 YEARS

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In 1984, Terrance Arndt was an 18-year-old in Shasta County California. He and his girlfriend are sitting together in his vehicle when out of nowhere, a man with a gun shows up. Arndt tries to save his girlfriend and is shot in the process. The girlfriend is sexually assaulted and left for dead. She isn't dead. After the killer leaves, she bravely drives Arndt's car for help and the state highway patrol calls Shasta County Sheriff's department. Arndt is taken to an area hospital but dies from his injuries, his girlfriend, never named, survives. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and the evidence left behind that allowed for science to catch up to the evidence collected. It took 40 years, but an arrest has been made.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.37 Introduction

01:41.48 Othram solves another cold case

02:45.31 Shasta County

05:11.66 Terrence Arndt killed, date raped

10:10.43 Small town athlete = star

14:42.98 Blood and DNA in 1984

20:08.18 Evidence that might be used later25:58.30 Tucson is a long way from Shasta County

29:56.59 Plug info into codis

35:19.30 Suspect shows up in court in a wheelchair and on oxygen

39:46.21 You can't outrun the numbers

42:09.96 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:09.9	There are certain places in California that I just will not go any longer for a number of reasons.
0:19.4	It's one of these things where, first off, I'm in fear of my life
0:23.5	to go back to certain locations within LA. It's not the same as it was years and years ago.
0:33.5	I don't even like to go to the beach down there when I'm in town.
0:37.9	And I have to go out there with some frequency because I have to do television and that sort of thing.
0:43.5	Interestingly enough, many of my friends that formerly worked in L.A.
0:48.2	Now have migrated to the South.
0:50.4	So I've got friends in Austin and I've got friends in Nashville and of course in Atlanta that
0:54.6	were formerly of L.A. But there is one place in California. I would not hesitate to go back to.
1:02.9	And it's right up there near the California, Oregon border. It is arguably whether you're in the mid part of the state or over to the coast.
1:14.5	It is arguably one of the most beautiful locations in the United States. You know, people throw
1:20.3	around the term breathtaking. There are certain places there. But today, we're going to talk
1:26.4	about the time that horror visited this absolutely gorgeous landscape.
1:36.0	A case from back in 1984, a coal case has now been solved using cutting-edge technology for my friends at Othrum.
1:50.5	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Bodybags.
1:55.3	We were at the base of Mount Shasta, and for those of you guys that have ever seen the Cascade Range,
2:03.7	it is just absolutely breathtaking. I mean, just something that most people can't even
2:10.0	fathom. If you haven't been there in person, you can see pictures of it, he just doesn't do it
2:15.1	justice. A lot of people are going to recognize the name Shasta County, crime people who follow
2:21.8	crime stories because of the Sherry Pippini case came out of Shasta County.
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