Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: In the Cage - the Chilling Fate of Cassidy Rainwater
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🗓️ 16 July 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Body Bags, hosts Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack unravel the harrowing and complex case of Cassidy Rainwater. They discuss the crime scene, the intense investigation involving local law enforcement and the FBI, the critical role of digital forensics in modern investigations, and how vital evidence found on a suspect's phone leads them to a chilling exploration of the dark web.
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Time-codes:
00:00 - Introduction.
01:15 - Cassidy Rainwater.
03:10 - Dave Mack gives us some background and an overview of the case.
05:50 - The crime scene's location in a rural and isolated area in southwest Missouri.
07:00 - The importance of digital forensics in modern investigations, particularly with photographic evidence.
10:15 - Disturbing photos found on the suspects phone.
13:00 - Disturbing content circulation in the dark web and its potential connection to the case.
16:25 - A small-town sheriff's investigator being contacted by federal agents.
19:35 - Cassidy Rainwater was found in an image suspended from a gantry crane and eviscerated.
22:45 - What could have been the possible motive for the careful labeling and preservation of Cassidy's remains?
24:30 - The process of identifying butchering marks on bones and what these marks can tell us about the tools used.
27:40 - Why were the remains preserved with a date?
29:45 - The tools and techniques one might use to dismember a body.
31:15 - What are "deer coolers"?
33:20 - A current update on the case.
33:45 - Outro.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7. |
| 0:04.1 | We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized |
| 0:09.1 | experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on |
| 0:13.6 | to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't. |
| 0:18.0 | We are going to solve these cases own air together. |
| 0:22.4 | Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app, the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to |
| 0:28.3 | your favorite podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | Body bags with Joseph Scott Morgan. |
| 0:50.0 | I coined the phrase a few years ago when I was appearing with Nancy Grayson on her shows, |
| 0:57.6 | and I've used it constantly since then. I'll state it right now just so that everyone knows. |
| 1:03.6 | And it's a bit melodramatic, but sometimes you just, you can't form the words, and so you just |
| 1:08.4 | go back and you, I have to use this, the house of depravity has no basement. |
| 1:14.9 | And what I mean by that is see things that so shock your conscience. You hear about them, |
| 1:21.5 | you read about them, and when you begin to think about what cases you want to discuss, |
| 1:29.2 | sometimes you retract from it, but you've sally forth and you do what you do. |
| 1:35.8 | And it's that way with certainly with my career that were certain things I didn't want to bear |
| 1:40.8 | witness to, that I didn't want to see, but I had them. And today on Body Bags, we're going to |
| 1:49.1 | talk about the death, the homicide, the brutal homicide of a young lady named Cassidy Rainwater, |
| 1:56.4 | and not just her death, but what we believe she endured leading up to the moment time when |
| 2:06.0 | people finally, investigators finally verified that they had her mortal remains, or at least |
| 2:13.2 | all that remained of her. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Body Bags. |
| 2:24.8 | I got to apologize to you. I apologize for dragging it down the road, but I felt as though that we |
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