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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: Sliced, Beaten and Strangled - The Death of Melody Hoffman

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The body of Melody Hoffman is discovered on a cold February morning. The person who finds her body calls 911 and describes her beautiful skin, she has all kinds of marks on her back, "like slashes" and her hands are curled in a way they shouldn't have been. She has been left in the freezing cold with nothing on but her underwear. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how it is possible that the 20-year-p; has slashes across her back and has lost a lot of blood, but that isn't what killed her. Dave Mack digs into the different relationships that led to the murder of a 20-year-old woman who just wanted a boyfriend to care about her.

 

 

 

 

 

Transcript Highlights

00:01.16  Introduction

04:29.89 Melody Hoffman is missing

09:45.20 Melody might have been pregnant

14:30.41 Buy killing supplies

19:19.24 Picture on phone of Melody beaten, crying, tape over mouth

25:49.51 Murder happened February 18th, very cold

30:46.08 Does weather impact dead body

35:26.44 How much abuse had boyfriend put her through

39:39.14 Melody was strangled to death

47:58.86 Why was body left where it would be found

Conclusion

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0:00.0

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0:29.2

Terms apply.

0:31.5

Body bags, but Joseph's Got More.

0:35.2

The first office that I ever had was actually adjacent to a levy that overlooked the Mississippi River.

0:45.0

Now, if you've never seen the Mississippi River, it's certainly something to behold.

0:50.7

It's massive, and it doesn't look like it's moving until of course you get immediately adjacent to it

0:58.1

then you can see the flow some days it's very powerful and you know what's really weird in

1:04.7

in south louisiana when the springtime melt would occur way back up river.

1:19.6

Back in Minnesota and Iowa, you would see huge blocks of ice that would flow all the way down to the city of New Orleans.

1:23.7

Now, that's not something you would expect to see, but I have actually seen it.

1:35.0

They say that many rivers, many creeks, flow into the Mississippi River. And today,

1:48.0

on this episode, we're going to talk about a location named after one such creek. That creek, of course, and of course it's no relation, is Morgan Creek.

1:54.2

And Morgan Creek flows into the Cedar River in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And, of course, Cedar River flows into the Mississippi River.

2:02.5

But back to Morgan Creek, that tiny little tributary, there is actually a park

2:08.2

in Sierra Rapids named after that little creek, and within the boundaries of that park

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