Man Shares Condo with Dead Ex for 7 Months

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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When officers are dispatched to check on a call of a man walking around a condo complex in his underwear, mumbling to himself and incoherent, they have no idea of the horror that awaits. Matthew Lewinski is taken from the condo complex and admitted to Henry Ford Hospital Intensive Care Unit. Lewinski's sister, Debra Federico, is notified by the condominium complex that lights were left 'on' inside the condo when Lewinski was taken away. Federico shows up to turn out the lights and lock the doors, but is hit with a strong smell of decay. Residents have been complaining for months about the smell but couldn't find the source of the odor. Debra Federico's husband, son and a family friend go inside the condo to turn out the lights and find the decaying remains of Matthew Lewinski's girlfriend, Courtney 'Jerri' Winters. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack detail the sickening story of murder, mayhem and mutilation. Professor Morgan explains how the forensic evidence will tell the truth of what happened, and how Matthew Lewinski was able to live for 7 months with his dead and decaying girlfriend just feet away from where he lays his head to sleep.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.7	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:14.4	I haven't had a basement in a home in a long time.
0:18.5	I don't know.
0:19.7	I think that it's places I've lived. I've tried to get
0:23.9	inexpensive houses and most of those are ranches that are built back in the 60s, maybe late 50s.
0:32.9	And I do like them, but you know, for the most part with ranch style homes that are built during
0:37.0	that period of time, they only have a crawl space and crawl space in
0:43.2	and of itself gives me chills because I always think of John Wigasey right but
0:48.1	most of them have crawl spaces but I don't have a basement I haven't had a
0:53.0	basement a long time. And of course,
0:54.7	that comes with problems, doesn't it? Anyone that has one, you know, you think about flooding and
0:59.3	think about having to go up and down those stairs. It would be nice to have one, though. Always
1:05.6	wanted to have a man cave. Never had one of those. But today I want to talk about the basement of not just a
1:15.9	standalone home, but a condo, which is kind of interesting, and about a man that occupied that
1:22.3	space for some period of time. He called it home. That's where he hung his hat and his car keys.
1:29.4	But that home was also occupied by someone else. Or should I say, the remains of someone else.
1:40.9	Because when they finally found out what was in the basement, it's something that I can only imagine
1:49.3	the finders will be scarred by for the rest of their lives. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is
1:59.8	body bags. You like your... I'm Joseph Scott Morgan. And this is Bodybacks.
2:05.6	You like your basement, Dave? You got a basement, don't you?
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