Girl missing 173 days, found less than 100 feet from home

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A family moves to the country to get away from the crime of the big city only to find that evil exists in small towns and big cities alike. A 17-year-old girl develops a close bond to a harmless older neighbor. But the harmless old man is really a wolf in sheeps clothing and when the 17-year-old goes missing the neighbor helps look as hard as anyone. As long as nobody comes to his house to look too close. For 173 days the girl is missing, her heartbroken parents don't realize she is only 100 feet away from their front door. Buried in a homemade box, just for her.

Joseph Scott Morgan breaks down the case of the teen girl hidden away in a homemade coffin and how difficult it will be to get the evidence to determine what really caused her death. Dave Mack joins in on the search for facts, and Valerie Tindall.

Transcript

00:01:02 Discussion of 173 days without knowing location of your child

00:02:26 Valerie Tindall, 17, and missing

00:03:29 Mother said Patrick Scott acted like jealous boyfriend

00:04:21 Discussion of age difference

00:06:55 Valerie Tindall is missing

00:10:00 Talk about Forensic Anthropology

00:11:28 Disturbed areas of soil in backyard

00:12:30 17-year-old girl bonds with 59-year-old man, odd

00:13:22 What does FBI mean to a case

00:14:32 The neighbor Valerie has “bond” with charged with lying to police

00:16:03 Discussion of providing false hope to lure out suspect

00:17:24 Investigators wonder if someone is helping her stay gone

00:18:29 Victim has been missing since June

00:22:24 Bright Orange fingernail polish Valerie Tindall was wearing

00:23:29 Taking down a structure, burning, why?

00:27:17 Talk about the VHS tapes found in box

00:29:11 Discussion of murder weapon, a belt

00:30:56 Suspect claims he is the victim?

00:32:29 Discussion about condition of the body

00:33:39 Why did the suspect dig holes in his property?

00:35:17 Talk about the story from the suspect does not make sense

00:36:35 Some evidence might have been lost

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. I don't care how old I get or how youngens get. I can't escape being a father and trust me I don't want to.
0:29.6	There are just certain moments in time where I need to have a dose of connectivity with my kids,
0:42.0	where... connectivity with my kids where you know I can talk to them laugh with them maybe
0:49.7	advised them heck even they advise me sometimes.
0:54.0	Remember, I'm a college professor.
0:56.0	I don't understand the generation I'm working with right now.
0:59.0	Thankfully, I've got a college student that is my son. He helps me. But you know I wait for
1:06.0	those calls. He calls me several times a day. My daughter calls me and I talked to my
1:10.3	grands. I cannot imagine going 173 days. Not knowing, not knowing where my 17 year old angel is.
1:28.6	There's no way I can really
1:33.8	but Valerie Tindles
1:38.0	parents had to endure that and the really chilling part of it is that for those 173 days, her body was
1:51.4	buried beneath the ground less than a hundred yards away from their front steps.
1:57.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.
2:03.0	Dave, we love those babies.
2:09.0	Dave, we love those babies.
2:11.0	Hard to get past that, don't want to get past it. It's hard to take the
2:15.6	measure of the grief of a parent. You know when you're out of touch with your kids,
2:19.6	it's a hand-winging moment in time. I guess some people will say,
2:24.1	well, they're on their own, they're out of the house,
2:26.4	but we're talking about a 17-year-old here.
2:28.0	They're not out on their own.
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