SHOCKER! Wife and Daughter Testify Against Dad in Murder of Future Son-in-law

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Kirby Carpenter was a 36-year-old entrepreneur dealing in gold, silver, and coins. He was known to carry large sums of cash at all times, was found dead on December 2, 2022. Authorities believe he was murdered with a shotgun or a firearm that fires shotgun-style shells on November 30, shortly after returning home from a grocery trip. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the case behind the murder and the trial that has just ended.

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00:05.83 Introduction

03:23.12 Sounds like "movie of the week"

05:00.85 Spence steals horse "Goliath"

09:59.19 Murdered by gun that fires "shotgun like" shells

14:43.31 Different guns for different hunting

20:12.78 Multiple bullet holes using shotgun

25:09.84 Drag marks lead to shooting location

30:07.44 If a robbery, body wouldn't have been moved

35:02.15 $2,000 in cash in a pocket

40:04.25 Caitlin is the one who "found" Kirby

45:36.01 SHOCKING MISTRIAL!

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.5	Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:09.2	Tip County, Mississippi.
0:11.5	I've actually got ancestors that settled that part of Mississippi.
0:19.5	If you're not familiar with it, actually, I've got a bunch of them that settled all of Mississippi. If you're not familiar with it, actually I've got a bunch of
0:23.3	them that settled all over Mississippi before they moved on to Louisiana and parts unknown
0:29.0	afterwards. But this area is up in the northern part of Mississippi. It's not really too far away
0:36.6	from where one of the bloodiest
0:39.1	battles of Civil War took place in Corinth, Mississippi is like a couple of counties over.
0:46.1	If you didn't know any better, you would think that you were in the middle of the wilderness.
0:52.0	I'll be it quite beautiful around there,
0:55.0	but there's not a lot going on.
0:58.0	And like much of Mississippi, if you have money, you're probably the exception as opposed to the norm.
1:15.0	And particularly if you've got, as I say, cash money in hand.
1:26.5	Today, we're going to talk about a case of a particular violence or level of violence,
1:38.3	and we're also going to talk about an individual that was self-made and commonly had at his disposal a quarter million dollars in cash metals, and he's found dead out in his yard.
1:51.1	And even given all of that wealth, he himself could not be shielded from being a homicide victim.
2:01.9	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Bodybags.
2:08.5	Dave, I got to tell you, man, this case that we're about to chat about right now,
2:14.5	we were, you know, kind of prattling on like we, like we're, like a couple old guys
2:21.8	like to do anyway.
2:22.9	You know, we, we ought to, we ought to go find us a park somewhere that has a bench
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