Gruesome! Brain in Blender! Teen Shares Gory Details, Decapitates Mom's Boyfriend

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A gruesome story out of Staten Island, a 45-year-old man is beaten to death with a meat tenderizer by his girlfriend's 19-year-old son. Damien Hurstel allegedly told police he wanted to know what it was like to kill somebody. His plan was to kill Anthony Casalaspro, 45, cut off his head, and liquify his body in a blender. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss what happened when Hurstel attempts to carry out his fiendish plan and how a meat tenderizer, a hand saw, a spoon, and a blender, and a bathtub are all part of the crime scene.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.03 Introduction: No Country For Old Men

03:01.10 Learning from failure

08:10.78 Mental Health issues

12:18.65 Desecrating remains, displayed body parts

17:54.27 Arrival on scene

22:05.02 Cutting Body into pieces is hard

28:04.13 Suspects wants to know what it is like to kill somebody

33:36.79 Matching up the pattern from weapon

38:10.84 Blood in the blender would be everywhere

43:00.20 Mom says "why did you kill him, I still love him"

44:53.74 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:09.5	In the movie, no country for old men, which is derived from a book of the same name.
0:19.3	There's a line in that movie where Tommy Lee Jones's character is sitting,
0:25.4	he plays a sheriff and he's sitting in a diner with another sheriff,
0:30.2	I think from El Paso, Texas.
0:32.8	And there is a conversation going on between two of these gentlemen.
0:36.1	And one of the gentlemen
0:39.2	makes a comment where he says it's the dismal tide it's the dismal tide and then he says
0:47.6	it's not the one thing and Tommy Lee responds it's not the one thing.
0:56.4	Today on Bodybacks, we're going to talk about a case where I can say that just like
1:02.6	in no country for old men, it's not the one thing.
1:08.0	But I can tell you, the totality of those things added up to arguably one of the most
1:18.0	horrific cases in recent memory that Brother Dave and I have covered. And today, we're going to chat
1:24.1	about it. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, coming to you from the beautiful campus of Jacksonville State
1:32.2	University.
1:33.6	This is body bags.
1:37.7	Dave, I got to tell you, I came to the knowledge of this case as a result of my friends, and I urge you each to go and listen to my friends on the podcast, Mother Nose Death, where we see each all the time at CrimeCon and they are. mother knows death.
2:08.6	We see each other all the time at CromCon, and they are a mother and daughter team, and they are absolutely lovely.
2:17.2	Nicole, along with her daughter, Maria, have this podcast, and Nicole has a similar background to mine.
2:20.1	She's a pathology assistant and has done pathology for a long long time and she talks about death. I thought you're going to talk about
2:24.8	how she worked with a meat cleaver or something. No, no. We'll get to that in a moment. Yeah.
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