SHOCKING! 1978 Double-Homicide SOLVED!

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Nov. 19, 1978The remains of Theresa Marcoux and Mark Harnish were discovered after an officer from the West Springfield Police Department located a 1967 green Dodge pickup truck owned by Harnish, parked in a roadway rest area on Route 5/Riverdale Street. Their bodies were lying by a nearby guardrail." "The officer saw that the driver's side window of the truck was damaged and noticed blood in and around the vehicle," the police post added, stating the victims — who had last been seen alive at approximately 12:30 a.m. that morning when leaving a friends' party — "appeared to have sustained gunshot wounds." No Firearm is found at the scene but investigators do find a fingerprint...the suspects' left thumb print is found. The "latent print" is found in what appeared to be blood on the passenger-side vent window.....but no match is found and the case goes cold. Joseph Scott Morgan breaks down fingerprints and how they are of no use if you don't have something to compare it to. Joe will also show how the suspect almost got away with a double homicide.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.00 Introduction

04:04.70 Changing from analog to digital

05:30.85 History of fingerprinting

10:04.68 Truth about fingerprints

15:15.96 A print on the scene

19:26.74 Old Truck with bullet could be old

24:34.49 There was an "ear witness"

29:17.43 Blood and drag marks

35:03.19 Was glass embedded in the bodies

40:01.98 A match

42:45.74 Conclusion - arrest

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0:00.0	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:05.0	If you can imagine a world where the access to a specific tool did not exist that we are completely and totally dependent upon nowadays. It kind of leaves you scratching your
0:23.9	head as to how in the world did we ever get any crime solved? Well, I'm reflecting back to, I
0:33.1	don't know, probably the early start of my career and And I didn't have access to modern technology,
0:40.0	but the one failsafe that we could always kind of, I don't know, fall back on, or fingerprints.
0:48.3	Now, we did blood typing, those sorts of things, but, you know, prior to Sir Alec Jeffery's application of DNA, I think it was in
0:57.3	84 in Great Britain, DNA just was not a thing. We knew about DNA. We knew that we could probably
1:09.1	understand our genetic code, but we hadn't quite cracked that
1:14.3	nut yet. But you know, in 1978, the minds of families were not on what Sir Alec Jeffries would
1:24.6	do six years later.
1:39.6	Their minds were on a tragic double homicide that occurred in Massachusetts, ending the lives of a 20-year-old and an 18-year-old.
1:44.6	And until recently, that case, those cases, have remained unsolved.
1:53.5	That's no longer the case.
1:56.3	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Bodybags.
2:03.7	Dave, sometimes, and I know that you probably, you know, just because I've worked in forensic science and have been around all the scientific whiz bangs and those sorts of things. And people are really impressed with that.
2:21.4	I bet you can reflect back to your days in radio and think about using real to real,
2:28.5	having to take a record album and spin it backwards.
2:37.2	I've seen them do that to get to the top of the song,
2:42.4	which I was always fast. I couldn't do it. Yeah, I would, if I was under that kind of pressure in a studio, radio studio, I'd, you know, I'd look like Lucy and Ethel trying to stuff
2:48.4	bonbons down, down my shirt because they're on the
2:52.1	assembly line.
2:52.8	I couldn't do it.
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