Peaceful Commune to Violent Murder: The Ezra Ralston Story

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Ezra Ralston, 29, moves in with his grandparents on their beautiful property on the water in the Pacific Northwest, and repays their love and kindness by coming up with a plan to create a commune on his grandparents property. The only thing he needs to do is kill his grandparents and steal their property to make his dreams come true.

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they take an in-depth look at death, fire, and the lies of Ezra Ralston on this episode of Body Bags.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:19 Joe Talks about finding save place for your family

00:01:18 Grandparents welcome 29-year-old grandson

00:02:15 Discussion about early 70s

00:03:47 Talk about the murder of Grandparents

00:04:46 Discussion of fire and explosion

00:06:16 Talk about arson, murder, investigation

00:09:02 Discussion about origin of fire in the house

00:11:05 Joe shares insight into recurring nightmare

00:13:09 Talk about finding the bodies of Joanna Gormley and Ted Ralston.

00:17:40 Discussion about gasoline used in fire

00:19:14 Joe explains assessing the bodies

00:23:02 Explaining what happens working a fire scene

00:24:54 Discussion of when to examine bodies

00:26:36 Looking around a fire scene is very confusing

00:27:47 Talk about the victims' wounds

00:32:03 Talk about plan to kill victims in their sleep

00:35:45 Ezra Ralston being encouraged by girlfriend

00:37:04 Discussion of using bleach to get rid of evidence

00:39:15 Fire creates more evidence

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. Finding a safe harbor.
0:30.0	Finding a place of peace. I think that most people long for that. You know, when you've lived a life and you've taken care of your family, your kids, you've done the best
0:39.6	that you can and sometimes even the best that take care of your grandkids.
0:45.0	That's happened over and over again.
0:49.0	It's happened in the past, it's happening right now, and it'll happen in the future. But you know when you have a big heart and you love your family, you'll do just about anything in the world for them. Even bringing a grandchild to a location that is your place of peace.
1:12.1	And it is that which I want to speak of today. I'd like to talk about
1:21.8	a place of peace because it's in this place that two grandparents
1:31.0	with open arms and open hearts were murdered and left in the basement of their home.
1:44.0	In that home, that place of peace, was set a blaze
1:50.0	to cover up any evidence left behind.
1:55.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is bodybows.
2:00.0	Dave when I grew up when I was a kid I grew up during the time of Walter
2:08.2	Cronkite on TV as you did to I know that you know Roger mud and all those guys and we saw the hippies right
2:19.3	you'd see the hippies at night on television and they you know they were curious you
2:26.8	know when you'd see them it was a curious thing but one of the things that came
2:30.2	out of that is what we began, as time went by you,
2:33.3	hearing, hearing this weird word that really wasn't part of,
2:38.5	I don't think, the lexicon in, you know, the 50s and early 60s of America and that's the word
2:46.0	commune oh I need you were gonna go it's kind of a it's kind of an odd an odd thing and some people would say that it's got kind of a I don't know kind of a
2:56.9	kind of a Comi-esque vibe to it you know Comune
3:01.4	Comuneism you know? Comune is commune, actually, commune, you know, sharing things.
3:04.5	That's a communal living.
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