Killer Tortures New Mom To Death, Leaves Her Infant Alone To Starve
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Destiny Duckett’s cousin couldn’t reach her by phone, so she stopped by her apartment to check on her. The cousin knocks on the door, but Destiny doesn’t answer. The cousin can hear the baby crying and she is worried. She calls police to do a welfare check and when they enter Destiny Duckett’s apartment, her 8-week old son is on the bed, crying, and his 22-year-old mother is on the floor, dead. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will look into the mysterious death of 22-year-old new mother, Destiny Duckett and Joseph Scott Morgan will explain how fingernails play a keep part in solving the murder.
Transcript Highlights
00:00:00 Introduction of case
00:02:20 Discussion of fingernails
00:05:37 Talk about cousin called police, heard baby crying
00:10:56 Discussion of protective order leading to arrest of suspect
00:15:26 Talk about leaving crying baby on the bed, alone, mother dead on floor
00:19:43 Discussion of body being the biggest evidence
00:24:16 Discussion of proving knees were on chest of victim
00:28:26 Talk about fingernail marks on the neck
00:33:55 Discussion of why suspect was already in jail
00:36:33 Conclusion – Convicted, sentencing to come
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| 0:00.0 | In the 90s, New York Detective Louis Scarcella locked up the worst criminals. |
| 0:04.7 | Putting bad guys away. |
| 0:06.3 | There's no feeling like it. |
| 0:08.0 | Then jailhouse lawyers took game led by Derek Hamilton. |
| 0:11.5 | Scracella took me to the precinct and alive. |
| 0:14.3 | 20 men eventually walked free. |
| 0:16.6 | Now, in the Burden Podcast, after a decade of silence, |
| 0:20.6 | Louis Scarsella finally tells his story, and so does Derek Hamilton. |
| 0:25.0 | Listen to the burden on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. lasts. |
| 0:42.0 | with Joseph Scott Morgan. |
| 0:56.4 | I try to break myself of bad habits and I failed more times than I succeed. But one thing I have succeeded in over the years, I never thought I'd be able to do this because I did it for so long, |
| 1:02.0 | was I have stopped biting my nails. |
| 1:04.0 | I just forced myself into the idea. |
| 1:09.0 | First off, it's an indication I think when you bite your nails and people see your hands |
| 1:16.0 | they can learn a lot about you. They can learn that you're probably perhaps in my case at least you're riddled with anxiety and I think that |
| 1:26.0 | people do it to self-sooth even when you don't have any nails to bite you ever |
| 1:30.3 | see somebody just sticks their tips of their fingers in their mouth and just kind of chewed? |
| 1:34.8 | It's very unattractive when you think about it. |
| 1:38.8 | Also I think that there's a health reason too. |
| 1:41.2 | My grandmother used to tell me that I would get worms, believe it or not, if I bit my nails. But today on body bags, we're going to talk a little bit about fingernails. We're going to talk about fingernails from an evidentiary standpoint. |
| 1:58.0 | Maybe we'll learn a thing or two, but I can tell you this. |
| 2:04.0 | We're going to talk about how fingernails |
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