Cop Well-Being Check, Boyfriend Bogus Jamaica Story: Where Is Stacey?
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
When Stacey Powell doesn't log onto her work computer for two days in the middle of the week, and family can't get her on the phone, police are asked to do a "well-being" check.
When police arrive, they immediately suspect Powell's boyfriend, Andrew Ridgeway, of lying. She's later found brutally murdered inside her Auburndale, Florida, home.
Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack in this episode, as they discuss the case.
Also in this episode, we mention a show that dropped December 23, 2025:
"1983 Car Fire Death: Charred Remains Buried. Victim Found ALIVE! Who is in GRAVE?"
Transcribe Highlights
00:01.62 Introduction - Well-being check
01:02.14 "savage"
05:02.26 Police show up - looking for Stacey
06:05.69 Andrew Ridgeway lies to police
10:01.21 Police need a warrant
15:02.62 What do "raccoon eyes" mean?
20:01.27 Past show - charred remains, 1983 car fire death
25:22.65 Lacerations are not sharp force injuries
30:05.43 Fresh blood, slippery
35:12.74 Stacey was shot and beaten
40:00.73 Beat cops deal with everything
45:20.16 M.E. said face unrecognizable
49:38.18 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:09.9 | There's a word that is used, I'd say, infrequently now. |
| 0:17.3 | But it kind of sums up certain things. |
| 0:20.1 | You know, there are words like that, right? |
| 0:21.8 | That, you know, I don't know, your tongue kind of longs to have them back in the lexicon. |
| 0:30.0 | And this word has been supplanted, but I've got to tell you, the case that I'm going to talk about today in describing what happened in this case, some |
| 0:42.0 | journalists, perhaps hearing this from a police officer, use this word as a descriptor. |
| 0:49.4 | Now, I've got to tell you, I look at a lot of headlines. |
| 0:51.3 | Brother Dave does too, and I don't know about him, but for me, I don't see it very often. |
| 0:57.7 | And the word is savage. |
| 1:02.6 | Savage. |
| 1:04.6 | And one of the definitions for Savage, actually, there's kind of a couple, but not domesticated are under human control and here's here's the |
| 1:17.7 | lacking lacking the restraints normal to civilized human beings. |
| 1:29.7 | Today, we're going to talk about a homicide. |
| 1:35.1 | A homicide involving a woman named Stacey Ann Powell. |
| 1:42.6 | And the story I'm going to lay on you guys is unbelievable because her death, though we |
| 1:49.2 | could say brutal, was truly savage. |
| 1:56.0 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Body Bags. |
| 2:08.9 | I've heard that term over and over throughout my life. |
| 2:11.7 | I used to be a huge reader. |
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