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Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: The House Is Gone - The Idaho Student Murders

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Idaho house where Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were murdered has been demolished. Both the prosecution and defense were in agreement that the residence should be torn down before Bryan Kohberger's trial.

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they discuss the impact of the demolition, what might now be missed and who might be helped by the biggest pieced of evidence being destroyed.

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Transcript Highlights

00:01:08 Talk about why the odd shaped home had to come down

00:02:18 Discussion about destroying house before trial

00:03:47 Compare being able to visit the home of Lizzie Borden

00:05:47 Discussion of taking down horrible crime scenes

00:08:33 Comparing evidence like knife to house, would a picture of knife be sufficient

00:09:06 Discussion of both sides in agreement in taking building down

00:11:28 Talk about how to tell if someone could hear noise from top to bottom of house

00:13:36 Discussion of first-person perspective

00:15:48 Discussion of Parkland scene

00:17:42 Talk about taking jury to crime scene

00:19:26 Discussion of house layout – would killer have to be familiar

00:20:39 Talk about moving around rooms in the dark

00:21:53 Discussion about seeing size of rooms and 'ear' witness

00:24:15 Talk about effective documentation

00:26:23 Discussion about where suspect entered home

00:27:07 Discussion about room size

00:29:51 Talk about dynamic distribution of blood, being able to see it in context

00:31:32 Discussion of Jeffrey MacDonald case, jury saw murder scene in house

00:32:4 Talk about without house, no way to know where sound would go

00:33:51 Discussion comparing Gettysburg site to a house

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0:00.0

Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. It doesn't come about with me as a result of age.

0:20.0

It is something that has plagued me my entire life and

0:26.0

that is a curiosity regarding places. I love to try to understand the origin of places. I love to try to understand the origin of places and the things that occupied a particular space.

0:38.0

I like to drive down the road, particularly through old neighborhoods.

0:42.0

I'm from New Orleans as many of you guys

0:44.1

know and there are a lot of old dwellings there. Sometimes though I am as fascinated by

0:51.0

what is not there as I am

0:54.3

am by what is there. Because you're left of wondering.

0:59.3

If you have a space, let's say for instance, an old neighborhood, what had occupied that space, what lives

1:06.8

were lived there.

1:08.6

Every place does in fact have a story.

1:11.9

Today on body bags, we're going to step back for a story. Today on body bags we're going to step back for a second to November of

1:17.8

2022 to just off campus at the University of Idaho, where there was a dwelling, an odd dwelling,

1:29.6

shaped in a bizarre fashion because it had been added on to over the years to accommodate

1:36.4

students and now in the present it is no more. Today we're going to discuss the demolition of the home or four University

1:50.0

of Idaho students were murdered. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.

2:02.0

Here we are. The house is gone. It's been called many things, a house of horrors. It was called

2:08.9

off-campus housing. It was called the spot of a multiple homicide, but it

2:15.2

The dwelling the physical structure exists no longer I think that's a shame it really is not for any

2:21.2

Perrin interest or horror story thing is just that on is not a

2:25.0

Not for any prean interest or horror story thing is just that on November 13th of 2022

2:27.9

Zanna chronodal

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