Murder in the Margins: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, and Comic Book Obsession Gone Wrong

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Body Bags we delve into the chilling case of Elizabeth Capaldi, who was murdered by her husband, Stephen Capaldi. Capaldi, 57, has been sentenced to 22 to 44 years in prison for the murder of his wife, Elizabeth "Beth" Capaldi, 55, in October 2022. Incriminating evidence was found on his cellphone, including internet searches on how to get away with murder.

Hosts Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the unusual factors that contributed to the crime, including infidelity and a comic book obsession, the meticulous research Stephen conducted before the murder, the initial police response to Beth's missing person report, filed by her daughter Emma, and how inconsistencies during police interviews can raise red flags and lead to a suspect's downfall.

Time-codes:

00:00 - Introduction.

01:07 - Overview of Beth Capaldi's murder case.

02:00 - Joseph asks Dave about his experience with comic books.

03:10 - Joseph's childhood love for comic books.

05:00 - Driving factors in Stephen Capaldi's case: infidelity and comic book obsession.

06:20 - Alternative ways Stephen could have ended his marriage.

08:15 - Sinister research Stephen did prior to Beth's disappearance.

11:50 - Emma Capaldi involves the police after talking to her father.

14:50 - JoScott explains how investigators approach missing person cases.

16:30 - Significance of observing behavior patterns in missing person's cases.

17:40 - Police questioning spouses and detecting deviations from their stories.

20:11 - Suspicious internet searches made by Stephen Capaldi.

33:10 - Joseph describes the intimate nature of the murder.

35:10 - Methods researched to dispose of Beth's body.

36:20 - Bloody aftermath in the basement and timeline of murder.

38:30 - Emotional impact of the crime scene.

45:15 - Outro.

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0:00.0	It's a rare event in the criminal justice system when you have an individual that actually
0:28.0	pleads guilty.
0:29.8	It seems truly to be the exception and not the norm.
0:35.8	I would imagine when you're standing before what seems like a mountain of physical evidence.
0:44.6	And you still have a few synapses firing in your brain that give you an indication that
0:53.2	this is a losing battle.
0:55.1	You have no other choice.
0:57.0	Today we're going to talk about the murder of a lovely woman by the name of Beth Capaldi
1:07.7	and her husband who decided that he was going to end not just their marriage but her life
1:16.2	over something that is so utterly bizarre.
1:21.2	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags.
1:30.6	Dave Mack, my good friend, senior, crime reporter, a crime online, hey Dave, I got a question
1:37.8	for you man.
1:38.8	I was just curious when you were a kid, did you like comic books?
1:42.9	I knew you were going to ask that, I knew it, and the right thing to say, oh I loved him
1:50.8	as a kid.
1:51.8	I mean, I didn't even really consider comic books as part of my life until I started
1:58.6	watching Big Bang Theory, you know, when it was on all the time.
2:02.6	And so when I saw this article, I started digging in to the Capaldi's and it was like,
2:08.9	I understand how that thinking is different than what you and I might think about.
2:12.6	But no, I didn't get into the serialized comic books, the only close thing I'd come to
2:17.0	be the funny papers, Charlie Brown or Mad Magazine, I love that one.
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