Beauty Murdered in Van on Beach: Case Cold 42 Years: Toby Tate Death SOLVED!
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On November 15, 1983, deputies respond to calls of a "suspicious" van parked at a Highway 1 turnout about three miles north of world famous Hearst Castle in San Luis Obispo County, California. Inside the van deputies find the body of Toby Tate, 41. She had been shot in the head in what appeared to be a possible robbery. Her purse was missing as was a nikon camera. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the evidence left behind, how the case went cold, and how after decades, the hard work of the officers in San Luis Obispo and the miracle workers at Othram helped provide answers to the family, and suspects, for the murder.
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Transcribe Highlights
00:02.29 Introduction - Child of the 70s
02:28.38 A case involving a van
04:56.41 Van is in a "turn out" lane, San Luis Obispo County
10:30.95 Evidence Toby took her dogs to the beach
15:14.53 Dead Bodies in a van for weeks
20:25.98 Rolling crime scene
25:07.00 Person resisting could put hands on suspect
30:26.78 Pawn Shop detective
35:06.86 From camera in pawn shop until recently, case was cold
40:03.75 Othram gets the info, cracks the case
45:05.99 Suspects dead
47:10.07 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Quantitbacks with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:10.2 | I'll have to admit, I am a child of the 70s. |
| 0:17.4 | It doesn't mean I was born in 70s. |
| 0:19.0 | It means that I kind of came of age in 70s. It doesn't mean I was born in 70s. It means that I kind of came of age in 70s. |
| 0:23.6 | And I guess probably one of the most iconic things in my mind about the 70s were vehicles. |
| 0:33.8 | And I've always had an affinity for muscle cars. |
| 0:40.4 | One of my, and I don't know that you could really call it a muscle car, |
| 0:47.4 | but my first car that I actually had was actually a 69 Mustang, three speed. |
| 0:49.1 | And I adored that car. |
| 0:50.9 | Almost got killed in it. |
| 0:58.3 | And that's a 60s car, but, you know, people wanted them in the 70s. |
| 1:00.6 | You saw old ones riding around everywhere. |
| 1:02.4 | You don't see too much of them anymore. |
| 1:04.4 | The good ones I'm referring to. |
| 1:08.3 | But, you know, another car that really stands out or another vehicle, |
| 1:11.5 | and it is pure 70s through and through. |
| 1:15.5 | Would have to be vans. |
| 1:24.7 | And look, insert any kind of creepy van joke that you want to, say, the white panel van, you know, all those sorts things. But, you know, when you're out and about in your teenager, one of the things that was really popular in the late 70s and early 80s was this idea of a van that had mag wheels, it had chrome on it, and of course, of course, the obligatory painting on the side of it. |
| 1:46.8 | And it was always like a sunset or something. |
| 1:53.9 | You know, now I saw some cool ones too that had like, you know, like Conan fighting a dragon or something. You know, but the sunset, you know, were kind of, hey, man, everything's cool. |
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