Killer Writes in Victim's Blood: Catch Me If You Can: Stephen Bryant Caught, Execution set

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Bryant became a one man crime wave in October 2004, murdering three men, attempted to kill another man and committed some robberies as well. Bryant dipped a pot holder in the blood of one of his victims and wrote "Victim number four in two weeks, catch me If you can" on the wall. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the crimes of Stephen Bryant, his victims, how they were murdered, and why Bryant gets to choose his method of execution.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.03 Introduction - Buffet

03:21.10 8 day crime spree

08:15.43 Killer gets time to "get right"

14:43.16 Firing squad execution

18:41.71 Why do autopsy on execution

24:42.77 Cruel and unusual

30:02.90 Crime spree begins 18 months after release from prison

35:40.44 What's next?

39:41.74 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:09.9	It's a unique position in this world to be given a choice.
0:16.1	A choice, a multiple choice, by the way, of how your life will end. I don't know that there are
0:24.5	too many people out there that are ever offered this opportunity. Most of us, the lion's share
0:33.0	of us, don't know when our time will come, but there is a person currently on death row in the
0:41.2	great state of South Carolina who has been offered a chance at deciding his fate. His choices are
0:49.5	the electric chair, lethal injection, or the firing squad. And as of the date of this recording,
1:02.9	he has essentially two to two and a half weeks to make that decision. The man I'm talking about is Stephen Bryant.
1:13.9	Stephen Bryant has been housed on death row for a protracted period of time now in South Carolina.
1:21.1	But when I tell you what he has been convicted of and accused of.
1:28.2	You're going to understand why the state of South Carolina wants to end his life.
1:35.2	Coming to you from the beautiful campus of Jacksonville State University, I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Body Packs.
1:48.9	Dave, I'm not a big fan of buffets.
1:52.1	I don't like buffets.
1:53.5	It gets too confusing.
1:55.3	Just put something from it.
1:56.4	I don't eat a lot too much anymore anyway.
2:00.7	High protein and all of that. Joe, I did not know. eat a lot too much anymore anyway.
2:02.5	High protein and all of that.
2:07.8	Joe, I did not know that you and I were on opposite ends of the spectrum.
2:08.8	I had no idea.
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