Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: The Terrible Deaths of Russell and Shirley Dermond
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
After seven years, the murders of Russell Dermond, 88, and his 87-year-old wife Shirley, remain unsolved. Friends go to check on the couple days after the Dermonds do not show up for a planned Kentucky Derby party. The headless body of Russell Dermond is found in the garage. Police say there is no forced entry to the home, nor is the house ransacked. Shirley Dermond's body is found 5 miles away, murdered, and floating in a lake. Her body has been weighted down by cement blocks. Today on Body Bags, forensics expert and professor Joseph Scott Morgan explains what possible evidence may have been left behind.
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| 0:00.0 | Body bags with Joseph Scott Morgan. |
| 0:11.3 | You work your entire life trying to build something out of nothing. |
| 0:23.5 | Hell, you even survived World War II as a decorated veteran of the Navy. |
| 0:29.2 | Come home, marry your sweetheart in 1950 and stay married for decades. |
| 0:35.2 | And from the ground up, you build restaurant franchises and you become quite successful. |
| 0:41.7 | And after all that time, you've built something that you can look back on with pride. |
| 0:46.0 | You got a family too, four kids, and then you decide to retire. |
| 0:50.4 | And boy where you retire too is a beautiful place. |
| 0:54.0 | But that location, where rustling, surely dormant, retired too, |
| 0:59.6 | has become a benchmark for absolute horror. |
| 1:03.2 | And it ends up in one of the most notorious, unsolved double homicides in the history of the state of Georgia. |
| 1:11.6 | Today we're going to talk about the dormant worse. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags. |
| 1:24.6 | Well, Jackie Howard's back here with me today. |
| 1:27.3 | She's the executive producer of Crime Stories from Nancy Grace. |
| 1:31.7 | Jackie, won't you tell us about the dormant's? |
| 1:33.8 | 88-year-old Russell Dermond and his wife, 87-year-old Shirley Dermond, |
| 1:38.5 | had been married for decades, as you said, Joe. |
| 1:41.4 | 68 years, they lived in Reynolds plantation in a 3,000-square-foot house. |
| 1:48.3 | That's a gated community on the banks of Lake O'Connie in Georgia. |
| 1:52.1 | It's about 80 miles southeast of Atlanta. |
| 1:55.8 | As you said, Russell Dermond was in the restaurant business for years. |
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