Missing Wife Body Parts Found In Woods, Ex Navy Jag Husband Accused

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Human remains were found scattered on a Georgia Hunting club property in November 2022. The remains were found in a three-mile area covering two counties, and investigators reached out to the public for help.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case that was investigated by multiple agencies, including the GBI and the FBI. They explain how the agencies came to identify the scattered remains as those of Mindi Mebane Kassotis, the wife of Nicholas Kassotis a former member of the Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG).

Kassotis is on trial right now for several charges, including murder and removal of body parts from the scene of death or dismemberment.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

03:33.49 No sympathy for those who should know better

04:59.21 Body Parts found in hunting club

09:30.53 Jeffrey MacDonald Article 32 Hearing

15:11.73 Sketch Image of victim was amazing

20:10.93 DNA is great if you have a sample in the system

24:58.72 Genetic genealogy

30:52.17 Tissue on skeleton

35:27.14 Dismemberment

39:22.78 May never know how she was killed

41:12.21 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.6	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:10.1	When you're in the military, I know this from experience.
0:14.0	I've got a son that served as well.
0:17.2	I think just about every generation in my family has served one way or another going all the way back to the Revolutionary War.
0:24.6	But when you're in the military, one of the things that they try to terrify you with early on is the UCMJ.
0:38.3	And the UCMJ is the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
0:41.3	And even when you're in, whether it's boot camp or basic training,
0:45.3	you know, whatever branch you're in, they'll call it one of those two things.
0:49.3	The drill instructor, drill sergeant, whatever the Navy calls theirs,
0:55.0	they'll say things like,
0:58.0	you're going to get punished
1:02.0	vis-a-vis the UCMJ.
1:06.0	And it'll be some minor thing, these various articles that they use.
1:10.0	And it'll go into your jacket.
1:12.5	And so you're always under that threat in the military.
1:20.3	And of course, UCMJ is prosecuted by Jack.
1:28.3	That's the Office of Judge Advocate General.
1:33.3	There was even a television show that was named Jack, I think.
1:36.3	I never watched it, but it was there.
1:39.3	Today on Bodybacks, we're going to have a discussion about the forensics surrounding a former
1:48.0	JAG officer. A former JAG officer that is currently on trial for dismembering his wife.
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