Murder In The Midday Sun: 1982 ColdCase SOLVED After 42-YEARS
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In April of 1982, Velma Nesset was attacked while she walked to work. When the 64-year-old woman didn't arrive at her job in the Permian Mall in Odessa, Texas, co-workers knew something was terribly wrong. Velma Nesset is a reliable, well-liked employee and co-workers, friends, and family begin searching immediately. Police are contacted and a missing person report is filed. Hours after she should have arrived at work, the partially nude body of Velma Nesset is found in a drainage culvert. Joseph Scott Morgan will explain what took place in the investigation from the moment her body was found all the way through more than 20 years of investigation. Dave Mack helps explain how a suspect who confessed to the murder was acquitted in a jury trial a year after the murder, and how a very cold case became very hot - 20 years after the murder.
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00:29.66 Introduction - walking for fun
01:45.05 Velma Nesset, 64, walks to and from work
04:55.58 You can tell a lot about the suspect by how they treat the dead
09:06.25 Being stabbed or choked is intimate 14:40.57 Velma Nesset was stashed in a culvert 18:44.62 The suspect grabbed Velma Nesset in broad daylight
21:23.40 Blood would be everywhere, especially on the suspect
25:28.52 In 1982, DNA was not part of the solution for crimes
29:21.02 Description of evidence that would be gathered from body
34:23.78 Texas has a program to test old sexual assault kits
38:07.00 Comparing DNA to unsolved cases
43:32.59 Cold Case Murder solved with genetic genealogy
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| 0:00.0 | Body backs with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:06.0 | Nowadays I spend a lot of time going for walks with my wife. |
| 0:12.0 | I do it for the exercise I don't run anymore and I do miss that I |
| 0:16.2 | miss that a trendling rush that you would get you just feel so good after you run but |
| 0:20.8 | back at my knees I just can't do it anymore but I do enjoy |
| 0:26.0 | walking I do it for leisure and for exercise but can you imagine you're 64 years old and you're walking to work every day? |
| 0:40.0 | Now, I guess you could say it's a choice. |
| 0:45.0 | Maybe you do have a car. |
| 0:47.0 | Maybe you just want to take in fresh air, who knows. |
| 0:50.0 | But the subject of our episode today did walk to work on a daily basis. |
| 0:59.4 | And you don't think that anything is necessarily going to happen to you in route to work. |
| 1:07.4 | But the story I'm going to tell you today involves a lady that was not just simply found dead along the side of the road |
| 1:17.0 | where she strolled to work every day, but hidden away inside of a culvert and here's the thing |
| 1:27.6 | This didn't just happen a couple of weeks ago. |
| 1:30.9 | This happened 40 years ago and it is just now that this case has finally been solved. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body packs. |
| 1:47.0 | I think back to that time, Dave, 1982 and that's when you know people would |
| 2:00.9 | still dress up many times first off to go to work they didn't show up in their |
| 2:05.9 | pajamas they look put together and the generation that we're talking about 62 year old lady and she's working at a mall |
| 2:16.0 | I'm sure that she put on her finery every day which she would refer to probably is her |
| 2:21.9 | business clothing and would go to work. She wanted to look |
| 2:26.1 | presentable, probably had her hair fixed, her makeup fixed, had her jewelry just |
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