Couple expecting baby shot to death at Christmas: The Life and Death of Savanah Soto and Matthew Guerra

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Savanah Soto, 18, and her boyfriend Matthew Guerra, 22, are reported missing the day before Savanah is to have labor induced for their baby. Their car is found, and Savanah is found dead in the front passenger seat with Matthew shot to death in the back seat.On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the truth from fiction in the saddest story from what should be the happiest of times.

Transcript Highlights

00:01:54 Talk about having a child

00:03:23 Talk about responsibility

00:05:53 Discussion of age of victims

00:07:49 Talk about family dynamic

00:09:24 Discussion about safety

00:12:53 Talk about location of bodies in the car

00:14:33 Discussion of Matthew being drug into back seat

00:16:12 Discussion of what long hair means to crime scene

00:18:42 Talk about where victims were murdered

00:19:46 Windows in the kia are dark

00:22:01 What is being said between truck driver and kia?

00:23:48 Discussion of people traveling with body in car

00:25:52 Baby is autopsied too

00:26:59Talk about Baby birth after death

00:28:23 Talk about Matthew identified quickly

00:32:36 Kia Optima located

00:34:58 Phone Pings will help find more cameras

00:35:55 Talk about bad cameras, great picture of suspects

00:37:01 Discussion of DNA that will likely be found

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. The greatest joy that I have experienced in my life was the birth of my children.
0:26.0	It's like this it's a culmination as a start but it's kind of a culmination of this
0:32.0	ramping up and particularly when you're
0:34.6	young and your first child comes along and it is joyful it's hard to describe you
0:42.0	know tears of joy you know people hear about that when a child is born.
0:46.4	I think a lot of that is the release of anxiety because there's a lot of fear. There's a lot of fear leading up to
0:56.4	the birth of a child. Just terrifying. I remember laying awake at night thinking
1:01.8	you know how in the world am I going to do this?
1:05.4	You know, how in the world am I going to support my child?
1:12.0	Those few days leading up to the birth, when you know that your wife has gone full term,
1:21.0	and you don't know what's waiting around the corner. It's enough to make very
1:28.2	strong men tremble in their boots. I know it did for me. Today we're going to discuss a young couple that never
1:39.2	made it to that point gaze into the eyes of their newborn child.
1:48.0	We're going to talk about a young couple
1:51.0	that were executed and as a result of their execution their
1:57.8	precious little child that had yet to be born but was due, died as well.
2:05.6	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body binds.
2:18.8	I remember the first time I strapped a child seat and it's not really a seat it's more like a carrier Dave into the back of my car at the hospital.
2:28.9	And you think about it, and I remember thinking I should have practiced this.
2:36.0	And you're sitting there and you're thinking, you know, how in the world am I going to, first off, leave the hospital safely and people are doing this for thousands of years, you know, you know,
2:56.0	going places where they're baby, but this was my first time. How are you going to
3:00.0	transport this precious little new life that's so fragile.
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