Fatal Family Crash! Dad, Sister, DEAD, Mom Critical, BABY Kahleb MISSING!

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A one-year-old boy, Kahleb Collins,, is discovered to be "Missing" when he isn't found in the wreckage of a car crash that kills his father, Steven Collins, 40, and older sister, Ryleigh Collins, 2, and lands his mother, Pam Bailey, 23, in the hospital in critical condition. Investigators looking for Khaleb don't find him in the wreckage but learn his grandfather, John Elton Bailey, has custody of the baby. When Bailey is interviewed he tells investigators he hasn't seen Kahleb since September. It is now December 17 and an Amber Alert is issued for Kahleb Collins. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case from what happened in the car wreck to a burn pile found on the Collins family property where human remains have been discovered.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.07 Introduction, burn piles

04:55.58 Fatal family car wreck leads to missing baby

10:16.20 Grandfather has custody of baby, but lives with the family

15:33.76 Was driver trying to commit suicide?

20:10.03 Difference between looking for decaying body of baby and adult

25:05.93 Human remains found in burn pile

30:37.56 Children not as resilient as adults when subjected to elements

35:03.84 The child has not been identified

40:02.17 Father is alleged to have abused one-year-old

42:25.42 Conclusion

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0:00.0	You're listening to an IHeart podcast.
0:06.9	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:11.1	I don't know about all the rest of the rural areas around the country, but I do know about the South.
0:16.8	In the South, you live out in a rural area.
0:21.5	You don't really have an access to a dumpster.
0:27.1	Most people, and I'm thinking back to my grandparents right now, had oil drums in their yard,
0:34.5	and they'd put their household trash in it and light it on fire. That was one of the
0:38.6	great treats of my life when I was little that my grandmother would let me help her do that.
0:45.3	And then, of course, in the rural areas, you have big burn piles as well where you'll take brush
0:50.8	that you've cut away, maybe along your fence line or fallen trees or whatever the case might be.
0:56.7	And you don't do it.
0:59.4	You don't do it every single day.
1:01.3	You'll wait until it accumulates.
1:03.1	That is the brush.
1:04.7	The trash you burn regularly.
1:07.3	But, you know, sometimes those brush piles actually turn into gathering areas because it's essentially a gigantic pondfire.
1:15.4	It's a place for many that has great memories, people sitting around, singing.
1:24.4	Maybe somebody's got a guitar, maybe somebody's drinking beer, and laughing and joking
1:29.1	and carrying on. But every now and then, every now and then, there will be an event that happens
1:41.3	on a family's property that is beyond the pale of anything that we can imagine.
1:50.0	And today is a day that we're going to talk about in one such case that not many people have heard of.
1:56.1	It's a case that originates in our home state of Alabama, and it's got everybody talking around
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