Gone Without A Trace - Where are Joey and Jaclyn?

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In Battle Creek, Michigan, Chad Allen Reed is the owner of a property. He lives on the bottom floor and rents out the top floor. He complains to everyone about the couple renting his upstairs, Joe Soule and Jaclyn Lepird are loud at night and Reed doesn't like it. When Joe and Jaclyn vanish, everyone is looking for them, except for Chad Allen Reed. He is too busy trying to hide what he has done. His property burns 5 times in 7 days but Chad Allen Reed is being haunted by the smell. Two bodies, wrapped in plastic, hidden in the back of a pickup truck. When nobody solves the mystery of what happened to Joe Soule and Jaclyn Lepird, Chad Allen Reed calls the tip line himself, and tells them what happened!

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the story of the Murdering Landlord and find out what evidence is left behind when two people are murdered on grass in a yard.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:07 Joseph Scott Morgan shares a renting nightmare

00:04:23 discussion of landlord complaining about tenant

00:05:20 Joe talks about trauma and evidence left behind at the scene

00:07:58 Landlord confronted tenants over noise

00:10:37 Discussion of the matter of cutting and bludgeoning someone

00:12:25 Talk about postmortem interval

00:13:23 Chad Allen Read shoots Joe Soule, shoots Jaclyn Lepird in the back

00:15:38 Discussion about Read beating Lepird with a pipe

00:16:37 Joe explains “Bullet Wipe”

00:18:32 Discussion about evidence left in yard

00:19:42 Talk about 2 people missing

00:21:51 Evidence left behind by 2 victims

00:23:31 Explanation of how bodies are examined in morgue

00:25:44 Discussion about perpetrators not putting distance between themselves and their victims

00:27:49 Bodies wrapped in plastic create more evidence

00:29:18 Talk about 5 fires in 7 days

00:30:13 Chad Allen Read calls the tipline himself

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. I guess I was 19, maybe 20 years old.
0:26.6	And I had moved back to New Orleans
0:31.3	to start college, didn't have any money.
0:34.0	And I had a roommate
0:38.0	guy that, you know, back then you put your name up on a board at the college
0:42.0	and, you know know seeking a roommate. I guess people still do that
0:47.1	I don't know it seems kind of dangerous to me but anyway I wound up becoming fast
0:51.4	friends with this fellow and we shared a house together in mid-city New Orleans and it was old.
1:01.0	It was so old and like many homes there stucco siding and we had the lower portion of this house and the landlord lived above us and the landlord and his wife would get into
1:17.0	furious fights.
1:21.0	Well, it was cold out. It was in February. And I'll never forget this. My roommate, his bedroom, housed the window unit for the entire apartment.
1:32.7	So his apartment was freezing cold and it's kind of a shotgun.
1:36.2	So I had the front unit, didn't have an air conditioner.
1:40.6	But my roommate, the next room down the hall was his, he had the air conditioner and kept it on full blast because New Orleans, most of the time is hot, but this time of year it was February, cold.
1:54.0	Well, our landlord and his wife at about 2 o'clock in the morning started fighting.
2:01.0	And they were speaking in Spanish yelling. They were Cuban
2:06.2	immigrants. And then they started stomping on the floor.
2:13.0	And all of a sudden I heard a huge crash.
2:17.4	And the crash was not them falling through the ceiling
2:21.1	and landing in our bedrooms, it was the sound of the entire window frame
2:28.3	falling out of our apartment being pulled out by this gigantic window unit.
2:35.0	And I ran into my roommate's bedroom, and he spoke with a very thick cajun accent.
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