Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: Behind the Veil Murder, Mayhem, and the Mystery of Tammy Daybell
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🗓️ 28 May 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Body Bags, hosts Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack unearth the details of Tammy Daybell's untimely death in Rexburg, Idaho.
They dissect the initial misdiagnosis of a heart event and navigate through a labyrinth of murder allegations ensnaring her husband, Chad Daybell, and his new wife, Lori Vallow Daybell.
They also highlight the crucial role of the coroner, the complexities of exhumation procedures, and the startling forensic evidence that contradicts prior claims about Tammy's death.
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Time-codes:
00:00 - Intro.
01:25 - Introduction of Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell's connection to Tammy's death.
02:45 - Overview of Tammy Daybell's life and suspicious circumstances around her death.
05:50 - Critique of the initial lack of an autopsy and conflicting reports about Tammy's health.
08:40 - Discussion on the mysterious deaths surrounding Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow.
10:20 - Challenges of determining cause of death without an autopsy and the importance of the coroner's role.
16:30 - Overview of the complex circumstances surrounding the investigation.
18:05 - Examination of physical clues found on Tammy's body and ensuing exhumation.
21:00 - Tammy's alleged convulsions and implications, with Chad as the sole source of information.
24:15 - Explanation of the legal proceedings surrounding Tammy's exhumation.
27:05 - Emphasis on the role of detailed evidence in post-mortem examinations.
29:05 - Revelation of restraint and asphyxiation as the cause of Tammy's death.
33:30 - Forensic techniques used to understand Tammy's death.
35:00 - Speculation on multiple perpetrators and scrutiny of the timeline following Tammy's death.
37:15 - Conclusion and sign off from the episode of Body Bags.
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| 0:29.5 | Thank you, azurestandard, for being our partner. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan. I was the youngest |
| 0:35.2 | medical legal death investigator in the country. The first time I've ever made a death notification |
| 0:39.7 | on you after that moment that I was going to try to be as compassionate as I possibly could, |
| 0:44.9 | because when families are rocked by death, the only thing they really want are answers. They ask |
| 0:52.1 | how, where, it was my job as a death investigator to bring those answers. Listen to Body Bags with |
| 1:00.9 | Joseph Scott Morgan, wherever you get your podcasts. Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan. |
| 1:21.7 | Rexburg, Idaho. It's one of those places I've never actually been to Idaho. I have been on the |
| 1:33.2 | western bank of the Snake River in Oregon and have looked over into Idaho and it's beautiful. |
| 1:41.5 | Beautiful, very appealing to the eye and the environment is incredibly varied there. You know, |
| 1:46.0 | you got the rockies that run through there. You got these, you know, kind of high desert planes |
| 1:50.3 | and all these sorts of things. But never in my imagination did, first off, did I think that I would |
| 1:56.3 | talk about the state of Idaho as much as I have, I guess, over the past four years, five years, |
| 2:03.2 | however long it's been. I want to focus on Rexburg today and one of the citizens of Rexburg, a female |
| 2:11.4 | citizen. She has been documented in the news now for low these many years. Perhaps one of the biggest |
| 2:20.1 | mysteries surrounding this bizarre, murderous environment that was inhabited by Chad Debel and |
| 2:28.7 | Laurie Valor Debel. Today we're going to discuss finally the findings of the autopsy of Tammy Debel. |
| 2:38.2 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags. |
| 2:48.2 | Dave Mack, been waiting for info. You know, there's that part of me that wants to know, |
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