MURDERED: Baylee Wylie (Part 3 of 3) | [City], [State] [Year]
Obscura: A True Crime Podcast
Justin Drown
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Baylee Wylie, a life cut short, left an entire town in sorrow and outrage.
The vibrant life of Baylee Wylie ended in a fiery act of violence, casting a dark pall over his loving community.
On December 17, 2015, a house fire exposed the brutal slaying and left multiple lives irreparably altered. For his mother, each day since has been punctuated by the echoes of grief.
The investigation weaves through complicated testimonies and complex emotional landscapes, each turn revealing painful truths.
Legal proceedings unfolded in public view, grappling with the grim details of Wylie's untimely death and its repercussions.
This episode includes court recordings and interviews, shedding light on the pursuit of justice within a devastated community. Listener discretion advised.
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| 1:00.0 | Welcome, listener. I'm glad you're here. Take a seat next to the fire. |
| 1:09.0 | Welcome to Obscura, where we shine a light on the dark. October 2016, Devin Morningstar's trial for the first-degree murder of Bailey Wiley, as well as a charge of arson with disregard for human life, began. |
| 1:50.0 | The taped interviews from his arrests were submitted as evidence, and witness testimony, including LeBlanc, his friend who picked up Morningstar, and the other two suspects after the murder as well as a |
| 2:02.6 | neighbor who heard some of the commotion the pathologist provided testimony that the victim |
| 2:08.1 | suffered burns to the upper part of his body but he was already dead when he suffered those burns |
| 2:14.4 | there were simply too many injuries on the victim for the pathologist |
| 2:18.5 | to count all of them, but he estimates there were 140 to 150 injuries all over the body, front |
| 2:26.8 | to back, from top to bottom. The doctor believed all of these injuries were caused while Bailey |
| 2:32.4 | was alive. A few of these were blunt force injuries, but the majority of these injuries were caused while Bailey was alive. A few of these were |
| 2:34.6 | brought force injuries, but the majority of these were injuries caused by stabbing. There were no |
| 2:40.2 | bone fractures. The pathologist identified certain injuries to the neck, chest, and abdomen |
| 2:45.7 | that either alone or together caused the victim's death. There were 35 penetration injuries in the neck of multiple length and of depths from |
| 2:55.6 | 1 millimeter to 1.5 centimeter. |
| 2:58.6 | The doctor testified that anything the depth of 1.5 centimeter would be about the length of the |
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