Cold Case Heats Up: Arrest Made in 1969 Murder of Mary Kay Heese

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Mary Kay Heese was 17-years-old when she was murdered and dumped in a ditch in March of 1969. Mary Kay Heese did not go down without a fight, she fought back, but died from multiple stab wounds. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about how the case went cold but the family kept working the case. Year after year. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain what it took to solve a case that was cold for more than half a century, and how 55-years after her lifeless body was found in a ditch, an arrest is made in the murder of Mary Kay Heese.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.35 Introduction - 55 year cold case

04:07.70 The Family keeps looking for answers

10:02.66 Parents have passed, but cousin fought for justice

15:01.01 Finding a hair and fiber evidence

20:07.30 Body found near home

25:05.68 Perp dumped body in ditch

30:03.39 Mary Kay Heese fought back

35:29.16 Two suspects, one commits suicide in 1977

40:06.78 A Suspect is found

44:08.09 Arrest is made, more to come

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0:31.5	Body facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:35.4	July 20th, 1969.
0:38.7	I remember where I was.
0:40.0	I was actually with my grandmother and my grandfather.
0:45.2	I can't remember if my mother was there or not.
0:53.7	But I do remember watching Neil Armstrong descend from that
1:02.0	lunar lander and set foot on the moon and it was like a miracle.
1:14.5	I remember my grandfather's saying it's fake.
1:32.3	But you know, I want to talk about a case today that actually is older than the lunar landing in 1969. As a matter of fact, the case involves a high school student who was aware of space travel,
1:40.3	was aware that we were going to the moon, and maybe with her friends.
1:45.0	She had watched it on a TV and classroom before we ever sat foot on the moon,
1:53.0	waiting, but it's a day she never saw.
1:56.0	Because in March of that same year, she was found in a ditch, slaughtered.
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