DEATH OF INNOCENCE: MOM STUFFED IN TUB, BABIES IN TRUNK

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Markayla Johnson moves with her two children, 4-year-old Miracle and 7-month-old Messiah, to Charlotte, North Carolina to be with her boyfriend, Benjamin Taylor. Within weeks of arriving from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, her family realizes they haven't seen her like they would normally expect. Reaching out to check on Markayla, the family get text messages from her phone, but there is something wrong. The messages don't sound like Markayla. After going to the apartment and finding nobody home, the family of Markayla Johnson report her and the children missing. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will walk you through the apartment that is now a crime scene and explain what police found when they opened the plastic tub filled with air fresheners......and Markayla Johnson. But where are the children?

Transcription Highlights

00:00.01 Introduction - Names of deadly drugs
04:59.53 Discussion of Markayla and children move to Charlotte
07:06.46 Discussion of text messages
10:53.00 Joe Talks about finding a body
12:22.00 Discussion of evidence of children
16:59.24 Talk about smell of decomposing bodies
22:06.34 Discussion of methodology of suffocation
25:35.12 Talk about smell of decomposition from trunk
30:17.86 Discussion of triple homicide
34:53.71 Discussion of small bruises around mouth
39:49.39 Discussion secure scene
45:37.10 Benjamin Taylor being held without bond

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0:00.0	Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:06.0	Chana Girl, Dance Fever
0:11.0	Friend, Goodfellas, Great Bear, Tangon Cash, Jack Pot. Seemingly innocuous words.
0:26.0	And their words that perhaps in any other circumstance might give you the warm fuzzies. But did you know that those
0:38.3	names are tied to arguably one of the most insidious drugs that's out there.
0:48.0	Fentanyl.
0:51.6	And daily, we see reports of individuals that die as a result of overdosing on fentanyl. But today we're going to talk about this drug and how it was actually
1:12.4	weaponized to commit a triple murder.
1:20.1	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.
1:28.0	It's hard to imagine Dave how an individual can be so disconnected from their own humanity, that they would murder two very young children as well.
2:11.0	How is it that this happens? I know that you know and that's that question is kind of
2:16.3	rhetorical people have used it for years and years. I you know working at the medical
2:21.5	examiners office, I would, I had to be very careful
2:26.7	about asking myself that question.
2:29.5	And do you know why, Dave?
2:31.4	Do you know why? I would have to be careful about asking myself that question.
2:35.2	Why?
2:37.2	Because to try to process that is so incredibly crippling for an investigator that if you go out and you begin to view every homicide that you work in that sense where and it's this it's this weird
2:57.7	instance where you try to remain as humane as you can while you're observing all of these horrible things
3:04.8	set before you, but if you don't have on your clinical hat as you are processing a scene
3:12.2	and trying to investigate things and you're seeing things
3:14.5	that other people can't even begin to imagine it will literally drive you to madness.
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