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Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

Cold Case Murder of Beloved Teacher Solved After 29-years!

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Mary Catherine Edwards is found naked and in handcuffs in her bathtub with about 4 inches of water. She has been sexually assaulted and murdered. Cause of death is drowning and asphyxia. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how the case that went unsolved for nearly 30-years was solved with DNA, Genetic Genealogy and a tip of the cap to Othram . Dave Mack will help tell the story of the 31-year-old beloved schoolteacher and the killer who almost got away with her murder.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:06 Introduction of Cold Case Murder

00:05:42 Discussion of shutting down crime scene

00:09:44 Talk about Parents discovering body of their daughter

00:13:27 Discussion of motivation

00:18:01 Talk about “torture”

00:22:21 Discussion of cause of death, drowning and asphyxia

00:27:30 Discussion of drowning in bathtub

00:31:23 Discussion of Shera LaPoint, the Gene Hunter

00:35:33 Talk about familiarity between victim and suspect

00:39:20 Discussion of DNA and genetic genealogy

00:41:52 Discussion of Rape Kit

00:46:35 Conclusion: DNA Solves

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0:00.0

Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.

0:06.0

You know, when you're a parent and you create lives together,

0:11.0

it's so thrilling, not just that life that you're holding in your hands, but the prospect of

0:21.6

what's going to ebb forth from that.

0:25.0

Because the path is uncertain.

0:27.0

You never really know what path your child is going to take?

0:35.0

You look at them, perhaps they're healthy.

0:39.0

They seem to be thriving.

0:46.7

But yet you don't know what waits for them once they hit adulthood.

0:53.0

But this I do know.

0:56.0

They carry with them

0:59.0

those markers that make them

1:01.0

distinctly part of a family unit.

1:06.4

And this, these markers that I'm referring to

1:11.6

go back thousands of years. It's that thread that runs through all of us. Today we're going to talk about arguably a very sad case but one where families

1:32.1

finally have answers.

1:35.0

I'm going to talk today about that thread that runs through life,

1:42.0

that one fellow thinking that he had gotten away with something became entangled in and

1:52.1

finally could not escape.

1:55.0

I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body backs.

2:10.0

Over the years, Dave, I've had some interesting holidays with families throughout my life. You never know what anybody is going to bring to the potluck.

2:17.0

You never know. And not only that, you don't know what they're going to walk through the door

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