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Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

INSTANT DEATH! Woman Killed by Rock Thrown From Passing Car

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Alexa Bartell, 20, is driving her car around 11pm when the driver of a truck coming towards her speeds up to 80 mph and hurls a 9 pound landscape boulder through her front windshield. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the criminal actions of Joseph Koenig, Zachary Kwak, and Nicholas Karol-Chik, that led to the instant death of Alexa Bartell.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transcript Highlight

00:00.03 Introduction

04:59.70 Driver throws 9 pound rock at passing vehicle

09:30.91 Landscaping stone turned into a projectile 

14:18.49 First Responder doesn't know what happened

19:59.48 The guys in the truck had been throwing rocks at other 

25:10.65 Weaponizing a bolder

30:09.01 Victim was struck in head

35:28.16 Complex crime scene

40:07.07 This wasn't the first time this happened

45:02.34 People don't feel safe on the road 

46:12.08 Conclusion road

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0:00.0

Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.

0:05.0

I hate being on the highway.

0:08.0

I've gotten now at this stage of my life.

0:12.0

I used to be able to ignore, I think while I was going down the road, I would ignore bad drivers and these sorts of things.

0:21.3

I just kind of equated it to, it's just the price you pay for being on the interstate

0:26.1

or driving in a big city somewhere.

0:28.9

But now, I don't know if it's what I've done for a living or maybe it's my age.

0:37.1

Life just seems so much more precious to me.

0:40.4

I guess the less time you have, you know, you put more value on it.

0:45.4

I don't know.

0:47.3

But who actually thinks that you're going to get in your car,

0:52.5

you're going to go down the road, and then suddenly, a large stone is hoisted in your direction.

1:07.6

As you're riding alone, minding your own business, it enters the car, and it ends your life.

1:19.4

Today on Bodybags, we're going to have a discussion about such a case that brought about the death of a young woman who was just mind in her own business

1:31.6

and didn't know the death was waiting just around the corner.

1:39.5

I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Bodybacks.

1:48.0

Has your tolerance worn thin, Dave, relative to operation of a motor vehicle?

1:54.2

I mean, it's an, obviously it's a necessity in life.

1:59.7

We don't live in some tiny little farm community, you know, and, you know, make our own food and subsistence farming.

2:08.7

And that sort of thing.

2:09.4

We have to go out and have contact with folks and drive along thoroughfares.

2:14.7

And it seems like the further I go in life, the dumber people get on the road.

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