Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: IDENTIFIED - Green River Killer’s Final Victim

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🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

For years she was labeled “Bones 20” the unidentified victim of the Green River Killer.

Now, thanks to police work and Othram Labs, the victim has been named as Tammy Liles. She was from Everett, Washington, and vanished in the summer of 1983. She was only 16 years old when she became a victim of serial killer Gary Ridgeway.

On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will take you behind the headlines and into the lab that helped give a name to a young lady who spent decades being called “Bones 20."

Transcript Highlights

00:0:16 Introduction – The Green River Killer last victim identified

00:02:28 Talk about age reference

00:06:32 Discussion of high-profile murders

00:10:48 Talk about the Green River Killer 16-year-old victim

00:15:56 Discussion of identifying remains

00:20:54 Discussion of the Green River Killer evidence

00:25:58 Talk about starting with incomplete skeleton

00:29:41 Discussion of Genetic Genealogy

00:34:51 Talking about Othram labs

00:37:39 Conclusion; might be the most noble of pursuits

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0:00.0	In the 90s, New York Detective Louis Scarcella locked up the worst criminals.
0:04.7	Putting bad guys away.
0:06.3	There's no feeling like it.
0:08.0	Then jailhouse lawyers took game led by Derek Hamilton.
0:11.5	Scracella took me to the precinct and alive.
0:14.3	20 men eventually walked free.
0:16.6	Now, in the Burden Podcast, after a decade of silence,
0:20.6	Louis Scarsella finally tells his story, and so does Derek Hamilton.
0:25.0	Listen to the burden on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. lasts. with Joseph Scott Morgan. Years ago when I was working as an investigator.
0:52.6	Every death that occurred.
0:56.2	You know, I'd like to say that each death is unique,
0:58.7	and they are.
1:00.5	But when you're in the middle of conducting an investigation into an obvious homicide,
1:08.0	and a pattern begins to appear in other cases.
1:15.0	There's this little thing that occurs in your brain.
1:22.0	And I used to think that I would get distracted
1:27.0	from other cases that did not have the same patterns
1:31.0	because you get, I don't it's it's almost like a in a
1:35.1	hyper state of awareness I think because you know you see you know investigators are
1:41.5	no different than anybody else you You know you begin to see
1:44.3	the bogeyman everywhere you go but the heart cold reality is is that the bogeyman does exist.
1:57.0	And today I want to speak to a particular case of a teenager, a teen girl who died many years ago.
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