Burned To Death After 10 Hours Locked In Storage Unit: The Death of Corrine Abosamra

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A fire was reported November 7th, 2024, at Broadmoor Self-Storage in Kentwood, Michigan. Firefighters cut the lock off unit 454, and discovered the body of Corinne Abosamra. Morgan Wingeier rented a storage unit at Broadmoor Self-Storage and allowed Corinne Abosamra to live in the unit. On the day of the fire, Wingeier left Abosamra in the unit and locked it with a pad lock on the outside. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss what is known so far about the death of Abosamra and look closely at the evidence to see if it leads to accident or murder.

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00:00.41 Introduction

02:00.28 Renting a Storage Unit

04:54.75 At a fire scene, everything looks the same

09:06.27 Would someone rent a storage unit to render down a body

14:34.80 Finding charred remains in the storage unit

19:53.52 Did Morgan Wingeier forget she locked Abosamra in storage unit

24:28.50 Victim was in the unit for 10 hours before fire was seen

29:07.64 Wingeier didn't return to the storage unit

34:10.35 Heat coming off a fire, no escape

39:47.36 Conclusion

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0:00.0	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:05.5	Over the course of my career, as a death investigator, I was part of several national committees.
0:14.3	I had to travel all over the country, various meetings, and that sort of thing.
0:18.5	And one of my fondest memories was going to Michigan and teaching a group of investigators there,
0:31.9	the national standards for medical legal death investigation.
0:36.4	And the spot chosen for that instruction was a place that became one of my favorite towns,
0:43.7	certainly up north, and that's Grand Rapids, Michigan.
0:46.6	I've got to tell you, if you've never been there, it is a lovely, lovely place.
0:51.1	I didn't expect it.
0:53.6	And during that period of time, I appreciated, first off,
0:59.5	how kind the people were, and also how very cold it was at night. Because I was up there in
1:05.6	November. Wound up going salmon fishing while I was there and almost drowned. But that aside, I loved
1:13.9	that location and I loved that place. But today I've got a case I want to present to you all
1:21.2	that is, at least in my way of thinking, it's one of the most horrible ways that a person could die.
1:30.0	It takes place just south of Grand Rapids in the town of Kentwood, Michigan.
1:36.2	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Bodybacks.
1:42.3	Over the course of our marriage, Dave, Kim and I have rented multiple storage units over this
1:49.3	period of time they are unnecessary evil I think our house got destroyed by
1:56.9	tornado and we salvaged everything that we could and put it into storage. And we've had to
2:03.4	use them before as well because we just can't can't just can't seem to get rid of junk many
2:09.8	times. And they certainly serve a purpose. But it's like when you go to one after you've rented it, every time you open the door to one of these places, you don't know what you're going to find inside, particularly as it applies to your property being degraded in there.
2:31.8	Maybe there was a leak, which we've had happened before.
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