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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Shattered Souls: Nightmare

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

On a cold and rainy morning in February of 2005, Jacksonville, Florida forensic detective Karen Smith responded to a troubling report of a body discovered in a wooded area. The unidentified young woman was in a puddle of mud at the bottom of an embankment, adjacent to a well-traveled road. Karen and her team faced tough terrain, poor weather, and other daunting challenges before they could even hope to identify the victim. Then Karen discovered the key to this case in the strangest of places. Fifteen years later, the victim continues to visit Karen in her dreams. Subscribe to the Shattered Souls podcast and catch up on all of Season 1 available now: Apple Podcast iHeart Spotify

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0:00.0

I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.

0:04.1

We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized

0:09.1

experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on

0:13.6

to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.

0:18.0

We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,

0:25.2

the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.

0:29.8

I'm Joseph Scott Morgan. I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.

0:34.8

The world that I inhabited gave me insight into things that most of the general public

0:39.6

can't even begin to imagine, always having to view the app normal in the context of the normal,

0:45.7

to make them make sense if you will. When all is said and done, I was the voice of the dead.

0:51.5

Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan on the I Heart Radio app,

0:55.9

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:25.9

This is Shattered Souls. I'm your host, Karen Smith. This podcast contains graphic language

1:49.0

and is not suitable for children. Welcome to Shattered Souls. This is Episode 1.

2:01.2

I chose this case for the first episode for a few reasons. It was the first time that I took a

2:06.5

case home. I was talking to my former lieutenant about a month ago and she mentioned this case

2:12.4

out of the blue because it affected her really hard as well. I had no idea. It was a really

2:18.4

difficult case on a number of levels. I guess I should tell you first of all, in the fallout

2:25.2

from this case, it was the first time that I had a real visceral reaction and that happened in

2:31.2

the form of a nightmare, the night of the crime scene. I went home, it was late at night and I had to

2:36.8

grab a couple of hours of sleep before I went back in the morning and I finally found sleep in the

2:41.6

wee hours. I couldn't get to sleep. I was restless, my brain was racing. So I put a comedy DVD

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