Executed! Shot To Back of Head. Dismembered and Burned: The Slaughter of Nancy Howery
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Nancy Howery meets Daniel Stearns on a dating app.
She is a 44-year-old divorced mother of two. Stearns is a 32-year-old control freak who says Nancy wasn't "following his dating rules" because she refused to date him exclusively.
Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the world of dating apps and how Nancy Howery became the victim of Daniel Stearns.
At his sentencing hearing, Nancy's ex-husband said of Stearns, "What he has done to Nancy was demented and defective. It wasn't just murder, okay? It was a savage slaughter."
Transcribe Highlights
00:00.05 Introduction - Geographical locations
02:03.82 Nancy Howery-met guy on dating app
05:01.99 Ex-husband reports Nancy missing
09:00.88 Digital info show Sterns mad Nancy wasn't exclusive
14:33.21 Investigators determined last person to see Nancy
19:02.10 Vehicle found abandoned in Palm Bay
23:48.31 Fingertips - rebuilding tissue
28:45.43 Body burned and dismembered
34:33.21 Bullet tracking through skull
37:50.10 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:09.5 | You know, throughout, I guess, crime history, there are geographical locations that are associated with horrific events. |
| 0:24.1 | All you have to do is look at, you know, |
| 0:30.5 | Jones Town, for instance, or some such place as that. And, you know, I think that part of that goes to the idea that, you know, we as humans, we have to have some kind of marker to keep up, you know, to understand. |
| 0:39.8 | And automatically, when you hear certain names, they create a chill up and down your spine. |
| 0:47.3 | Today, I want to talk about a case that originates back in 2023. |
| 0:55.6 | And the name that is associated with this event, which is so horrific, is actually called |
| 1:04.5 | The Compound. |
| 1:07.0 | It's located in Florida. |
| 1:09.8 | And what took place at that location, I believe, will chill you to your core. |
| 1:19.1 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Body Bag. |
| 1:25.8 | Brother Dave, good to join you. I, you know um i feel like you know sometimes i feel like i |
| 1:32.7 | just absolutely assault you based upon these cases that i send your way because you know there |
| 1:39.9 | there's no uh you know i don't know rainbows and lollipops, you know, where we kind of |
| 1:45.3 | endwell many times. |
| 1:46.7 | And they're horrible things. |
| 1:48.1 | But I feel like this is a case that we need to talk to. |
| 1:50.9 | We're talking about a single mother of two. |
| 1:55.2 | And what seems to be an origin of the story in the dating app world. |
| 2:02.8 | It's a brave new world that we live in, isn't it? |
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