Double-Homicide on Campus: The Murder of Dr. Beth Potter and her Husband Robin Carre

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It’s the morning of March 31st, 2020 a jogger finds Dr. Beth Potter and her husband Robin Carre shot in the head execution-style in University of Wisconsin Arboretum. Carre is pronounced dead on the scene by police while his wife, who was still alive, was rushed to the hospital where she also dies. Initially the police believed this to be a random homicide, but after reviewing video surveillance and GPS data, they redirect their sights on a potential suspect: Khari Sanford - the boyfriend of the victim’s adopted daughter Mimi.

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the gruesome nature of this case, how the cooler temperature affected the crime scene (specifically, the blood), how conscious Dr. Potter was for the hours that she was alive after the attack and the motive of the suspect.

Show Notes:

0:00 - Intro

1:32 - Background and overview of the case

5:21 - Did Robin Carre die from his gunshot wound/was it exacerbated from the cold temperature?

7:23 - Was Dr. Potter really still breathing when they found her?

9:34 - The significance of the area where you’re shot

12:01 - How do we know the victims were killed on the pathway where they were found?

16:15 - Would the cooler temperatures affect the state of the blood found at the crime scene?

18:26 - Shell casings

21:10 - Was Dr. Potter in and out of consciousness the whole night before she was found?

25:14 - Finding the suspect, Khari Sanford (the boyfriend of the victim’s daughter)

29:41 - Hearsay and the weight is has in a court of law

33:20 - Sanford and Mimi (the victim’s daughter) reportedly spoke of the parents having “bands of money” and that they were “rich”

36:35 - Wrap up and final details

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0:00.0	Body bags with Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:19.8	You look back on it and after you've been to college, you realize that probably wasn't
0:26.1	really the most stressful thing that happened in your life. But for many kids that come into
0:32.3	college, they realize their life is full of stress. At that moment, it might be the
0:36.9	most they've ever experienced. And how do you relieve yourself from that stress? I don't
0:42.5	know. There's any number of ways that college kids go about that. But at the University of Wisconsin,
0:47.1	they've kind of got a unique area there. And it's a place of beauty. It's actually a nature
0:55.7	walk. It's called an harbor item. And you can walk through and see all the native species
1:02.1	of plants. The walkway kind of curves through this forested area. Of course, all the plants are
1:08.6	labeled and that's where they think. And it's beautiful, they say, no matter what time of year
1:13.8	you're there. But one morning, the jogger was going through this beautiful nature area.
1:23.5	At about six or three in the morning. And if you can imagine this,
1:29.0	this individual looked over along the side of this beautiful nature trail.
1:36.0	We saw two individuals, both with gunshot ones to their heads.
1:42.7	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan. And this is Body Bags.
1:53.1	Joining me today is Jackie Howard Executive Producer of Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
1:58.5	Jackie, I got to tell you, I don't know that I've ever been on a walk and have discovered
2:03.6	something of this nature. And you know, I've been on a lot of walks as a death investigator
2:08.4	going through the woods and this sort of thing. But just as a random person, can you imagine
2:13.1	the shock and the horror you're out there to start your day off with a jog and, you know,
2:18.7	just at the crack of dawn and you look down and you see two fellow human beings laying alongside
2:23.6	the road apparently slaughtered. It certainly would be a surprise at any time. Let alone first
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