Pregnant EMT Dies in House Fire - Tragic Accident or Murder?

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The fire department shows up at the home of one of their own and find Melissa Lamesch unconscious on the kitchen floor as her home goes up in flames around her. She is on maternity leave from her job as an EMT and is expecting her baby to be born any day. Melissa Lamesch and her unborn baby die in what authorities believe is asphyxiation from the fire. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will breakdown how trying to burn evidence of a crime, oftentimes creates the evidence needed for conviction.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:08 Introduction of fire set to cover-up a murder

00:01:18 Talk about fire and smoke

00:03:10 Discussion of smoke as evidence

00:05:05 Discussion of woman, 9 months pregnant, dying in a fire

00:08:35 Talk about how healing takes place after being burned

00:11:26 Discussion of hair catching fire in bathroom

00:14:43 Victim is on maternity leave from job as EMT

00:18:53 Discussion of the mother and her baby

00:22:53 Discussion of monoxide

00:28:01 Talk about suffocation

00:33:33 Discussion of fire splash patterns

00:36:55 Talk about the family talking to officials after the fire

00:40:46 Discussion of dealing with the death of pregnant mother

00:43:10 Conclusion, Matthew Plote convicted for Murder

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. There's an old adage and I don't know if it's scientifically provable.
0:24.0	However, there's an old adage that says smoke follows beauty.
0:29.0	And if you've ever been seated around a campfire, it seems as though that every time you
0:34.8	readjust due to smoke, it does in fact follow you.
0:40.4	Now, whether or not I'm beautiful or not is certainly debatable but it does
0:45.9	seem to follow us doesn't it no matter how you readjust yourself and I love a good
0:50.9	campfire there's a place that I go to with just my wife and I.
0:55.8	It's a little island in the middle of a river that we cruise up and down in our boat.
1:02.3	And we bring wood with us and we'll just sit there by the fire on this little
1:05.6	island. I enjoy the warmth of it. I enjoy the piece of it just listening to the
1:11.7	water and the sound of the birds. But you know, I gotta tell you,
1:17.0	fire and smoke. We do find peace in it, but you know, they're two of the most destructive elements in the world as well.
1:28.0	They wreak havoc, and I have stood over bodies for years, working house fires and accidental events involving
1:38.4	explosions where fire resulted. And sometimes fire and smoke wipe away everything including evidence.
1:49.7	But in the case I want to discuss with you today, the absence of something actually led to the conviction of a murderer.
2:02.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags. Now Dave I gotta tell you
2:10.1	I'm I'm not gonna say you're beautiful but you're a rather handsome man.
2:13.6	Does smoke follow you when you go out to sit around a campfire at any point in time
2:18.4	as it ever followed you?
2:19.4	You know the old song, smoke gets in your eyes.
2:22.0	Oh goodness.
2:23.1	Yeah, the platters.
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