Four People Beaten to Death to Create Plot For Movie!

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Deputy Jason Loftsgard is the first officer on the scene of a possible carbon monoxide poisoning death.

He checks on the victims, Romondus Cooper, 44; Amanda Parker, 33; Keonna Ryan, 26; and Brent Brown, 34, and finds only Brown to still be alive.

The deputy also notes, "These people didn't die of natural causes."

State Trooper Tylor Fairbanks said. "Carbon monoxide does not cause your head to collapse on itself, and carbon monoxide poisoning also does not leave pools of blood on the ground."

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the entire scene, from the carbon monoxide poison call to the trial of Luke Truesdell that is going on right now.

Is it possible Luke Truesdell really killed four people with a pipe just to create the plot for a true-crime movie?

Transcript Highlights

00:00.52 Introduction, 2019 coverage of murder with a corn rake

03:05.95 Murder weapon is a metal pipe

06:57.81 Who was the main target?

12:11.61 Carbon Monoxide poisoning

18:18.11 How do you beat 4 people to death

23:03.53 The term "Brain Them"

28:03.99 Determine who was killed first

33:00.01 Suspect show himself to investigators without knowing

39:15.42 The Most Dangerous Game

44:57.51 Each victim beaten to death with metal pipe

49:55.91 Looking for degree of trauma

54:37.06 Conclusion: Trial ongoing - Will update

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:09.9	Back in 2019, I think it was, I was covering a trial both on law and crime network as well as with court TV of a pick farmer out of Iowa who took of all things a corn rake and impaled his wife on it. He was eventually found guilty. I don't remember a case like that
0:42.5	because the level of brutality that's involved in this thing, I'll never forget it, you know,
0:47.8	and seeing the crime scene images and that sort of thing. I'm thinking, oh my Lord, you know,
0:52.7	they lived way out, you know, and there's a lot of way out in Iowa.
0:56.6	I've got some dear friends up there.
0:58.1	I really do.
0:59.4	Beautiful countryside, if you like flat and agricultural,
1:02.4	which doesn't put me off.
1:04.4	Winters are kind of tough,
1:06.1	particularly for an old Southern boy.
1:08.2	But nice folks.
1:10.0	But the brutality of that case, you know, really made
1:13.2	me stop and think for a moment, wow, you know, this could happen out here. He was eventually
1:18.4	found guilty. The fellow's name was Todd, Todd Mullis. I'm sure that some of you guys
1:22.3	remember that case. Wife was Amy. Heartbreaking. Absolutely heartbreaking. But today I've got what I would say is
1:33.3	equally a brutal case. Matter of fact, several cases, all stemming from one single individual
1:42.3	as a perpetrator, that I would argue is equally as brutal.
1:47.7	It's out in an isolated area.
1:49.8	It's in farmland.
1:51.5	And the tale that I'm about to tell you is going to rock you to your core because there's so much horror associated with this.
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