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Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

Murder in Piedmont Park

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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True Crime

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Just inside Atlanta's popular Piedmont Park, 40-year-old Katherine Janness has been brutally attacked...

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0:00.0

We all have a place of peace that we try to seek out at the end of a long day of work.

0:24.2

Let me go for a walk, take a dog with us, our best friend, clear our mind, that place of safety, that place of peace suddenly explodes and your life comes to the end.

0:38.2

Somebody's wielding a knife, they're hovering over, they're bearing the knife into your body over and over and over again.

0:48.2

And maybe the last thing you see is your dog dying right before you. That's our case today.

0:56.2

I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags.

1:03.2

Joining me today is my good friend Jackie Howard, executive producer of Chrome Stories with Nancy Grace. Jackie, what can you tell us about this case?

1:14.2

Catherine Katie Janice took her dog Bowie for a walk in Atlanta's Piedmont Park.

1:20.2

Now Piedmont Park to put this in terms where other people who are not from this area can understand would be like taking a walk in Central Park in New York.

1:28.2

Katie's went to see her girlfriend Emma who was working down the street as a bartender and there were lots of people out walking their own dogs.

1:36.2

This is kind of a typical scene for this Midtown neighborhood. After leaving the bar, Katie continued her walk.

1:44.2

After work, Emma went home, but Katie wasn't there. She should have been, she should have been back from the dog walk by then.

1:51.2

So Emma started calling Katie's cell phone, but did not get an answer. Then she sent text messages.

1:56.2

They also went unanswered and that's when the worry set in and Emma went out to look for Katie.

2:03.2

Obviously when you're walking a dog, you can go anywhere. So Emma used the find my iPhone app on Katie's phone.

2:10.2

It showed Katie's phone was about a hundred yards inside Piedmont Park, which was very close to Katie and Emma's home.

2:19.2

Emma thought maybe Katie had dropped the phone so she went into the park to find it, but what she finds is a very gruesome scene.

2:25.2

The first thing she saw was Bowie. Bowie was dead. That is the dog. And it's a pit bull, not too far away.

2:32.2

Emma found Katie's body and she was dead.

2:37.2

This is a very gruesome crime Joe that we're going to talk about, but let's talk about the beginning.

2:44.2

Bowie and Katie were not found next to each other, but they were found, especially Bowie, at the entrance of the park.

2:52.2

There's so much to talk about here, Joe.

2:55.2

As you know, I worked in Atlanta for a long time and I'm very familiar with Piedmont Park.

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