In the Cage | Unraveling the Chilling Fate of Cassidy Rainwater

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Body Bags, hosts Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack unravel the harrowing and complex case of Cassidy Rainwater. They discuss the crime scene, the intense investigation involving local law enforcement and the FBI, the critical role of digital forensics in modern investigations, and how vital evidence found on a suspect's phone leads them to a chilling exploration of the dark web.

Time-codes:

00:00 - Introduction.

01:15 - Cassidy Rainwater.

03:10 - Dave Mack gives us some background and an overview of the case.

05:50 - The crime scene's location in a rural and isolated area in southwest Missouri.

07:00 - The importance of digital forensics in modern investigations, particularly with photographic evidence.

10:15 - Disturbing photos found on the suspects phone.

13:00 - Disturbing content circulation in the dark web and its potential connection to the case.

16:25 - A small-town sheriff's investigator being contacted by federal agents.

19:35 - Cassidy Rainwater was found in an image suspended from a gantry crane and eviscerated.

22:45 - What could have been the possible motive for the careful labeling and preservation of Cassidy's remains?

24:30 - The process of identifying butchering marks on bones and what these marks can tell us about the tools used.

27:40 - Why were the remains preserved with a date?

29:45 - The tools and techniques one might use to dismember a body.

31:15 - What are "deer coolers"?

33:20 - A current update on the case.

33:45 - Outro.

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0:00.0	A coin to phrase a few years ago when I was appearing with Nancy Grayson on her shows,
0:27.9	and I used it constantly since then, and I'll state it right now just so that everyone
0:33.3	knows.
0:34.3	And it's a bit melodramatic, but sometimes you just, you can't form the words, and so
0:37.9	you just go back and you, I have to use this, the house of depravity has no basement.
0:45.4	And what I mean by that, is see things that so shock your conscience.
0:50.1	You hear about them, you read about them, and when you begin to think about what cases
0:56.6	you want to discuss, sometimes you retract from it, but you've sally forth and you do
1:05.2	what you do.
1:06.2	And it's that way with, certainly with my career, there were certain things I didn't want
1:10.7	to bear witness to, that I didn't want to see, but I had them.
1:15.1	And today, on body bags, we're going to talk about the death, the homicide, the brutal
1:22.5	homicide of a young lady named Cassidy Rainwater, and not just her death, but what we believe
1:30.8	she endured leading up to the moment time when people finally, investigators finally verified
1:39.4	that they had her mortal remains, or at least all the remains of her.
1:45.3	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Body Bags.
1:53.5	I got to apologize to you.
1:57.0	I apologize for dragging it down this road, but I felt as though that we needed to chat about
2:02.9	this case with me as they've marked me to seeing your crime reporter with crime online.
2:08.9	We cover a lot of things, man.
2:10.7	This case though, it's difficult to take in, would you agree with that?
2:16.3	The home of depravity has no basement, is that what you said?
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