Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: DEATH OF INNOCENCE - MOM STUFFED IN TUB, BABIES IN TRUNK

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🗓️ 25 August 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Markayla Johnson moves with her two children, 4-year-old Miracle and 7-month-old Messiah, to Charlotte, North Carolina to be with her boyfriend, Benjamin Taylor. Within weeks of arriving from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, her family realizes they haven't seen her like they would normally expect. Reaching out to check on Markayla, the family get text messages from her phone, but there is something wrong. The messages don't sound like Markayla. After going to the apartment and finding nobody home, the family of Markayla Johnson report her and the children missing. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan walks you through the apartment that is now a crime scene and explain what police found when they opened the plastic tub filled with air fresheners......and Markayla Johnson. But where are the children?

Transcription Highlights

00:00.01 Introduction - Names of deadly drugs
04:59.53 Discussion of Markayla and children move to Charlotte
07:06.46 Discussion of text messages
10:53.00 Joe Talks about finding a body
12:22.00 Discussion of evidence of children
16:59.24 Talk about smell of decomposing bodies
22:06.34 Discussion of methodology of suffocation
25:35.12 Talk about smell of decomposition from trunk
30:17.86 Discussion of triple homicide
34:53.71 Discussion of small bruises around mouth
39:49.39 Discussion secure scene
45:37.10 Benjamin Taylor being held without bond

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0:29.0	Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:36.0	China Girl.
0:39.0	Dance Fever
0:41.0	Friend Goodfellas, great bear, tango and cash, jackpot.
0:47.0	Seaway.
0:51.0	Jackpot. Seemingly innocuous words.
0:57.0	And their words that perhaps in any other circumstance might give you the warm fuzzies.
1:07.0	But did you know that those names are tied to arguably, one of the most insidious drugs that's out there.
1:20.4	Fentanyl and daily we see reports of individuals that die as a result of overdosing on fentanyl. But today we're going to talk about this drug and how it was
1:42.2	actually weaponized to commit a triple murder.
1:50.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.
1:55.0	It's hard to imagine Dave how an individual can be so disconnected from their own humanity, that they not only murder their loved one, their love interest if you will, but take it so far that they would murder two very young children as well?
2:41.5	How is it that this happens? I know that you know and that's that question is kind of
2:46.4	rhetorical people have used it for years and years. I you know worked at the medical
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