Shocker! Body Found In Well in 2006 IDENTIFIED! Murder Victim Born in 1881!

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The remains of an unknown female were discovered in a well shaft in Saskatoon's Sutherland neighborhood in 2006. Now, almost 20 years later, she has been identified as a woman born in 1881! Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go behind the shocking find and discover who the woman was and how she was murdered! Alice Spence (nee Burke), a woman of Irish ancestry who was about 35 years old at the time of her death, sometime between 1916 and 1918. Saskatoon and Toronto Police Services Team with Othram to Identify Canada's "Woman in the Well". Check out DNASolves.com

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00:08.72 Introduction -History

03:17.40 Ben Franklin's bathroom

05:20.03 Human remains in burlap bag, placed in a barrel, found in a well

10:01.36 Murderer did good job hiding body

15:30.58 Forensic anthropologist at work

20:25.39 Joe Loves the Saints

25:05.77 Atl, body stashed down manhole

30:12.75 Hyoid bone could still be intact

35:20.77 Gilgo, burlap sacks used

40:14.48 Othram is changing lives

45:12.44 Body finally identified with trauma from murder

47:03.89 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:09.3	My Lord, I love history.
0:12.1	If I thought that I could have made a living at it,
0:16.0	I think my dream job probably would have been
0:19.3	to have been a history professor.
0:24.3	Nowadays, there's just too much politics attached to it.
0:30.8	But I love going to historic sites because you go there and you,
0:44.8	you see things and it breathes life into those that are long since dead.
0:52.3	A few years ago, I had an opportunity for the very first time in my adult life to visit Philadelphia.
0:59.8	And the reason I really wanted to go was all about Ben Franklin.
1:03.9	He's probably my favorite character from American history.
1:06.3	I just, I love his story.
1:12.6	I love the fact that he was living on the streets in the freezing cold in Boston and then in Philly. And he just kind of set his own rules, man, lived his life.
1:16.6	But you know, one of the most interesting things that I saw in Philly was not, I don't know, Constitutional Hall or, you know, or even the Liberty Bell, which was kind of cool.
1:29.9	You know, the coolest thing I saw was the site of Ben Franklin's Privy, which I was fascinated by.
1:37.3	And actually, it's just a big block of stone that says that Ben Franklin's privy was here.
1:45.0	And privy for those that don't know, that's essentially the outhouse.
1:50.9	But what they did when they excavated that spot,
1:56.6	they found all manner of items.
1:58.7	And there's actually a display case that actually shows these items that were pulled from the privy of this brilliant man.
2:07.9	And I don't know, one side, forgive me for being coarse here.
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