Buried Alive: The Kidnapping of Sandra Pagniano

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Sandra Pagniano vanishes from her home in the middle of the night while her husband and daughters are asleep. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how handwriting analysis broke the case wide open, while Dave Mack digs into the fractured marriage of David and Sandra Pagniano. All signs point to one suspect and one location where Sandra Pagniano was bound, gagged, and buried alive in a hand dug grave.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00 Introduction, history, writing, buried alive

00:03:22 Discussion or “Person of Interest”

00:06:21 Discussion of “notes” Jon Benet Ramsay note

00:11:01 Talk about handwriting analysis

00:16:15 Discussion of documents

00:21:22 Discussion of obvious suspects

00:24:19 Discussion of cadaver dogs

00:26:32 Talk about using cell towers to track location

00:31:41 Discussion – how to tell someone was buried alive

00:35:29 Discussion kidnapped from her house, buried alive

00:39:13 Conclusion – Life in Prison

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0:00.0	Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:06.0	Taking the long view of history, I think we can go back to maybe the Sumerians, I think we can go back to maybe the Sumerians, I think when we can go back to maybe the Samarians I think when we begin to consider
0:17.8	written communication that is you know putting down in symbols how we're going to relay information maybe to
0:29.5	one another or maybe as leaving behind a record that we even ever existed.
0:35.0	And that's a very analog way to look at it.
0:40.0	And what I mean by that is that you know our forebears you know press things into clay
0:45.4	symbols then there was the eventual stroke of a pen and you have to find a place to put these things on some kind of medium.
0:55.0	Oh, papyrus, for instance.
0:58.0	Of course, we're moving away from that now.
1:01.0	We're no longer kind of, I don't know, handcuffed to it.
1:04.7	But you know, there's part of the elegance of it that I miss of writing.
1:11.6	There's something about that communication between your brain, your eyes, and the
1:19.5	tips of your fingers as you form those letters. Today I want to talk about something that involves
1:29.4	creating a communication, a written communication that's very very specific a written
1:37.6	communication that involves a husband and a wife that was buried alive. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is
1:50.1	body bags. Dave we're gonna hop in the way back machine real quick. Yeah, we got to go back a little, not in the way way back machine, but a little bit.
1:59.7	2017, May. David Pagagnano and his wife, Sandra,
2:05.6	are in the middle of what has been described as a nasty divorce.
2:09.4	Now, they are still living together.
2:11.6	Sandra's 39. David is 62 62 and they have two daughters that
2:14.6	are aged 8 and 12 at the time this is all happening. According to David
2:19.9	Pagiano, while he and the girls were asleep, Sandra packed her stuff and left.
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