Headless, Handless Body Found In Suitcases in 1998 Finally Identified! Son Charged!
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In February 1998 the dismembered remains of an elderly man were found in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The remains were in two suitcases found days apart and investigators determined all of the remains belonged to the same individual. The hands and head were not in either suitcase, preventing identification of the remains. The case went cold. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at what happened over 30 years and how Othram was able to identify the remains and in the process, identify the person who put the remains in the suitcases.
Host: Joseph Scott Morgan
Co-Host: Dave Mack
Transcribe Highlights
00:00.29 Introduction - Retirement
05:11.00 Dismembered remains found
10:35.78 Remains were "fresh"
15:16.46 Coroner would have been alerted
20:11.67 Body Bag becomes evidence
25:22.09 Forensic anthropology
30:07.00 Victim was in his 90s
36:22.81 DNA - Othram, identified remains
39:58.10 Son Collected Dad social security and pension
45:55.32 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Quality Facts with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:09.6 | I was having a discussion with my wife not too long ago regarding our retirement and thinking about, you know, what monies there are, you know, how do you access it? |
| 0:24.0 | How do you know how much you have? |
| 0:25.6 | It's one thing relative to like personal investments and all that. |
| 0:29.8 | That's not what I'm talking about. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm talking about Social Security, right? |
| 0:33.7 | Because it's something I've never really thought about, you know, at all. |
| 0:37.8 | And I know I've got a lot of great friends that are drawing their Social Security right now, |
| 0:42.1 | that listen to us faithfully. |
| 0:43.7 | And first off, if you've made to retirement, God bless you. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm happy for you. |
| 0:48.3 | I think it's a great thing. |
| 0:50.1 | I long for that someday. |
| 0:52.5 | But, you know, they put you on that graph, right? |
| 0:55.5 | You go into the guts of the program and it will show you how much you have earned to this point. |
| 1:05.2 | It's a bit disheartening, I think, because when you look at it, you can go back and see when you started working, right? |
| 1:14.1 | And I thought, oh my Lord, man, I've been at this for a long, long time. |
| 1:20.4 | And it's a grind, didn't it? |
| 1:22.3 | Every single day you got to get up. |
| 1:26.5 | You're going to go in. And I'm like, I'm like you guys. I've had jobs that |
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