For the Want of a Baby: The Death of Ashley Bush

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Ashley Bush, pregnant with her fourth child, is the main breadwinner in her home.

However, she has been diagnosed with gestational hypertension and needs a job she can do from home. She connects with a woman named Lucy on a social media site for expectant mothers, who offer the exact type of job Ashley needs.

In this episode of "Body Bags," Joseph Scott Morgan explains how medical professionals determine when a birth has occurred naturally and when something has gone wrong. Dave Mack will delve behind the headlines to uncover what happened to Ashley Bush and what will become of those responsible for causing her harm.

Transcript Highlights

00:17.33 Introduction - times are tough
03:22.40 Discussion about set-up, work from home to lure pregnant woman
08:00.83 Discussion about stealing baby from womb, call 911
13:32.57 Talk about decomposition that happens inside mother's body
18:26.72 Discussion of woman has placenta in her pants, baby dies
22:41.29 Discussion gestational hypertension
27:00.24 Discussion of Waterman admits killing Ashley bush
31:49.71 Discussion of working neonatal unit
35:44.32 Talk about burning body, heat insufficient
40:03.01 Discussion of Jamie Waterman led investigators to body
41:10.24 Conclusion, sentencing in October

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0:00.0	Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:04.0	Every generation has, have their moments.
0:10.0	There are moments in time where things are really good and then there are those segments of your life, maybe collectively, you know, within your group
0:27.8	that you're moving through life with where times get really, really tough.
0:32.2	We're in one of the spots right now.
0:35.0	Work for many is diminished. Sometimes you can't find a job, and if you can find a job many of those jobs really don't pay a livable
0:47.3	wage so if you are essentially desperate and someone comes to you and says, hey I have a job for you.
1:02.3	And by the way, you can stay at home while you do it because you've
1:06.8	got little kids.
1:10.2	That's a heck of a temptation. But the problem is that many times these individuals that offer these jobs don't have your best interest at heart. As a matter of fact, sometimes they'll bait you
1:30.4	with something that sounds too good to be true.
1:34.0	And today in this particular case,
1:37.0	we have a young mother that was baited and it wound up in the death of her unborn child and also her. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body packs. I don't think anybody out there, most folks at least, they don't consider that getting in a car is that they're going to wind up in a terminal event in their life.
2:19.5	You know, nobody in their right mind would get in the car but in this case they
2:24.0	this poor woman did. Well it was a setup you mentioned about a job and working from
2:31.0	home in this story today, that's how that was the
2:36.5	connective tissue of making everything happen was you have Ashley Bush who is 33 year old mother of three very pregnant and having a difficult pregnancy but looking to make money at a job that is online that you can do from home.
2:55.6	We used to make jokes about making extra money at home in your spare time by
2:59.8	licking envelopes.
3:00.8	That was the 70s and 80s and 90s even but over the last since
3:05.2	since COVID in reality since COVID we've got a lot of jobs that became work from
3:10.7	home jobs now granted that is going back the other direction now when they
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