Hello and welcome back to Sword and Scale Daily, a daily show covering all things true crime,

five days a week. It's Tuesday, March 4th. I'm your host, Ryan Williams. In Florida, a man faces a

murder charged months after the decomposing body of a woman, was found partially buried

at a fast food restaurant. In Maine, law enforcement were called to a home for a reported

shooting and found a man dead inside. The homeowner was later arrested and charged with murder.

And in Alabama, a man called the police to report his wife missing. Just a day later, he was arrested in connection to her death.

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Back on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, deputies with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office in Florida responded to Church's chicken in Tampa after a body was discovered partially buried in the

fast food restaurant's drive-through. When deputies arrived, they found the partially

decomposed body of a woman, buried in the dirt and decorative mulch. The body was removed

and brought to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy. The victim was later identified

as 48-year-old Don Morrison. It was determined that she'd only died a few days prior on June 15th, despite the amount of decomposition that her body was displaying.

Her cause of death was ruled to be blunt force trauma to the head.

As homicide detectives started looking into Don's death, they pulled surveillance footage from the area where her body was found.

In the footage, they were able to observe Don walking with another individual

who appeared to be an unknown male. Now, in the video, they didn't see the alleged killing

taking place, but there was some audio in which they heard Don allegedly yell, quote,

quit it, quit it, help. A short while later, the same man that Dawn was observed walking with was seen walking

away from the church's chicken location, headed toward a dumpster.

The video showed the man taking off his shirt and discarding it along with some other

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