Jack-in-the-Box Murder Mystery Becomes Fugitive Wife Murder Trial

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Burned remains of a man found inside a foot locker and left in a blueberry field in Michigan were not identified for 13 years. In 2015 the case was called "The Jack-in-the-Box Murder because it was a catchy title. The remains were not identified until the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office received a tip in 2015 that gave them the information they needed to use dental records to identify the deceased as Robert Caraballo. Investigating Caraballo's life at the time of his death took investigators to the home he shared with his wife and stepdaughter. Joseph Scott Morgan will break down the forensics that brought this case to a conclusion and Dave Mack will help tell the story of how the Jack-in-the-Box Murder became The Fugitive Wife Murder Trial.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:44 Introduction of story a burned body in a trunk found in blueberry field

00:02:40 Talk about conspiracy and escaping to other side of the planet

00:05:28 Discussion of victim being alive with hammer stuck in skull

00:08:02 Discussion of injury caused by falling downstairs

00:12:34 Talk about how remains could not be identified

00:15:11 Discussion of evidence in hammer attack

00:19:49 Discussion of hitting head with a hammer

00:23:51Talk about how the skull breaks

00:28:19 Discussion of destroying a body

00:32:37 Discussion of “old school” identifying remains

00:35:15 Talk about the plan to push victim down the stairs, hit him with a bat

00:35:53 Talk about the conspiracy

00:38:01 Discussion of law in Italy for hotel guests

00:39:15 Discussion of cover-up

00:40:06 Beverly McCallum guilty on all charges

00:40:42 Talk about keeping a secret

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. I am by no means of a vegetarian. It's not my thing.
0:37.0	a vegetarian. It's not my thing. But I've gotten now where I eat a lot more fruit than I used to and one of the things that I have come to enjoy more than anything. I guess it's because they're convenient and kind of carry them around in my hand are blueberries. And I will, anytime I go to the store, I buy a brand new pack of blueberries like to eat them with pecan halves actually. Blueberries have
0:45.2	gotten where they bring me a lot of joy. You don't really think about you know
0:49.2	where blueberries come from or how they're farmed. All I know is that I like the way they taste. But can you imagine
0:58.1	owning a blueberry farm and day after day you got to the blueberry bushes and you check and see how they're doing when it's harvest time you take them all in
1:08.1	But in one particular day out there in the middle of a blueberry farm.
1:17.0	There is found a metal foot locker and contained within that metal foot locker are charred
1:30.5	human remains and for years they the identity remained a mystery. But just
1:39.2	looking upon that in that rather I'm sure bucolic environment you understand that all hell broke loose and
1:48.4	there are no explanations at least initially. Today on body bags we're going to talk about a case that
2:00.0	involves a metal foot locker, a burned body, a hammer, and a wife that didn't want to be in a marriage any longer.
2:11.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is body bags.
2:15.0	Dave, I got to tell you this case, it kind of crossed my desk and some of the things I've been covering on the air and I was
2:26.8	struck by this because there was so much forensic science involved actually in
2:31.3	the death of this gentleman Robert Caraballo up in Michigan that I was
2:37.6	actually astounded and it wasn't a single perpetrator it was like a triad of individuals that were involved in this poor man's death and I was shocked. I really was and it is truly a mystery and it involves an individual that was on the run for a long time and when I say on the run I'm not talking about you know this happened to Michigan I'm not talking
3:03.4	about somebody that ran off to Ohio or you know to Wisconsin I'm talking about somebody that
3:08.2	went literally on the other side of the earth to get away from what she had wrought.
3:14.0	And so I was fascinated.
3:16.0	It had me hooked.
3:17.0	The entire conspiracy that went into this actually is one step further and deeper than I thought when we started.
3:25.6	Because one thing that has come out, they did a test run. The suspects here did a test run of what they were going to do now you said the woman who didn't want to be a part of a marriage. All right? We have a conspiracy that involves Christopher Wayne McMillan. We have
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