Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: The Life and Loss of Connie Cuesta, A Wine Bottle's Fatal Blow
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🗓️ 31 December 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Connie Cuesta's life is violently cut short; her body is discovered with numerous lacerations, inflicted by the unlikely weapon of a wine bottle. The room shows signs of struggle; every organ in her body bears a mark, and multiple wine bottles are scattered across the scene. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack guide listeners through this bewildering episode of Body Bags, meticulously dissecting the elements that make this case so extraordinary. From the anatomy of a wine bottle's lethal potential to the significance of the victim's state of undress, the episode is a masterclass in forensic investigation. Listen in to uncover the intricate web of forensic details that could play a crucial role in the ensuing legal process.
Time-coded Highlights:
00:00:20 — Joseph Scott Morgan introduces the episode, hinting at a murder case involving a wine bottle as a weapon.
00:01:36 — The oddity of a wine bottle as a murder weapon is discussed.
00:02:39 —Joe Scott Morgan and Dave Mack delve into the impact of a head strike with an object, providing insight into the potential deadly force of the wine bottle.
00:03:00 — Dave Mack shares information about the murder case.
00:08:20 — Drawing a parallel between the design of a bottle and a baseball bat, Joe Scott indicates how they can be similarly weaponized. He then reveals that a woman's life ended due to an impact from a wine bottle.
00:10:20 — Joseph Scott Morgan describes the signs of a struggle at the crime scene. He emphasizes the importance of understanding those signs when investigating.
00:13:48 — Discussion of the role of the medical examiner in the investigation and the importance of the body’s temperature at the crime scene.
00:16:49 — Joe Scott and Dave discuss the victim's state of undress, considering whether it indicates a sexual assault or is a result of being dragged.
00:20:58 — Discussing the severity of the victim's injuries, Morgan notes that every organ in her body sustained a laceration.
00:25:11 — Detailing how a knife was driven into the victim's temporal bone four times, Morgan indicates the force required for such an act.
00:27:54 - Joseph Scott Morgan makes a crucial point about Sean Cuesta's current legal status, reminding listeners that he is still considered innocent as he has not yet been taken to trial.
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| 0:00.0 | bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. In Varytaus, in wine there's truth. |
| 0:20.0 | In Vino Veritas, in wine, there's truth. I don't necessarily know if there's truth, but I think that consumption of a nice bottle of wine may loosen you up to speak of things that otherwise might not be said in any |
| 0:35.2 | other circumstance and as a vessel there are not too many other things out there that |
| 0:41.9 | function that are quite as exquisite as nice wine |
| 0:46.3 | bottle. There's all kinds now that are out there in different colors and shapes |
| 0:50.9 | certainly. They all retain kind of a basic, their own basic anatomy. But today, I want to talk about a case that you're not going to |
| 1:05.0 | believe where a wine bottle actually is used as a weapon to take the life of an elderly woman. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags. |
| 1:15.0 | Talk about the grapes of wrath, Dave. |
| 1:20.0 | This case that we've got today is, I trying to be funny but it is quite striking. |
| 1:25.8 | It's something that I haven't come across. I've worked a number of bludginings over the course of my |
| 1:30.9 | career with heavy objects and this sort of thing, but you generally don't think of a wine bottle as being resilient enough to impact someone to bring about a death and it's not just a single blow and it is not just a |
| 1:45.0 | single injury. It is multiple injuries in today's case. I wanted to add one more |
| 1:51.6 | thing to Joe. The idea is that the wine bottles are empty I don't know if that means anything to you but it makes a difference to me because I thought if you were hitting somebody with a bottle, if it had something in it, it would be more |
| 2:06.3 | deadly than it would be if it was empty. It seems like it would be more apt to crack and be |
| 2:10.8 | useless if it was empty, just a shattered shattered glass but that's the TV and movie |
| 2:14.4 | person watching that the breakaway glass in real life glass doesn't break away and |
| 2:19.7 | go on to people it's kind of if you've ever been hit in the head in a fight, you don't get up and take three more. |
| 2:26.2 | If you get a good hit to the face, I'm telling you, the fight's pretty much over. |
| 2:29.7 | Particularly with a head strike and with an object in particular, it'll take you to your knees I mean you might get |
| 2:36.2 | back up but you're not going to be the same person as when you went down or at least |
| 2:40.6 | for that moment Tom now in this particular case, we have a 36-year-old man, Sean Cuesta, and we have his 64-year-old |
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