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🗓️ 28 May 2025
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In November 1987 cops in Humbolt County, California, received a package in the mail. The package was mailed from San Francisco and contained partial skeletal remains. A typed letter was included in the package with directions to more skeletal remains. More skeletal remains were recovered but what was found was still an incomplete set of remains. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss a case that includes a missing teacher, a husband on a business trip, and bones found in multiple locations in Northern California - and how the incredible work of Othram helped identify the partial set of human remains nearly 40 years after they first arrived at the Sheriff's office
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00:03.47 Introduction
01:12.55 Influence of teachers at an early age
04:56.32 1987-husband comes home from business trip, wife is gone
09:39.08 Some mailed skeletal remains to police
14:39.11 Partial skeletal remains
19:51.97 Map to more remains included with remains
24:00.63 Typed letter still has "evidence"
29:27.66 Note and remains mailed from San Francisco
34:48.40 Othram brought in to identify the skeletal remains
39:14.34 Victim lived in an isolated area
43:29.15 Othram has to crowd fund to be able to work on a case
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0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
0:05.6 | Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore. |
0:10.0 | I didn't enjoy high school, not by a long shot. |
0:15.4 | I was involved in a lot of stuff, but I was kind of nerdy, you know, kind of on the outside. |
0:19.7 | I played football. |
0:21.7 | I was in ROTC, |
0:28.0 | but beyond that, I couldn't get out of that place quick enough. But the people that really kind of, |
0:40.3 | you know, stayed with me were my middle school teachers, or as we used to call it, junior high teachers and to a certain degree by elementary school teachers there's you know because there's those are really the |
0:45.0 | first people you have contact with as you're kind of developing your learning and so I actually |
0:51.9 | think that they have more of an influence on you than maybe even the high school teachers. |
0:57.6 | And there are a couple that kind of stand out in my mind as I look back through time. |
1:04.4 | It's amazing how teachers can change lives to a certain degree. Of course, you know, families do it more than actual teachers. |
1:15.9 | But they do have an influence. But can you imagine that you're a student in school and the person |
1:26.7 | that has taught you for maybe several years that you've seen around |
1:30.9 | campus seen in the hallways suddenly they up and vanish without a trace today we're |
1:40.7 | going to have a discussion about one such teacher that vanished. |
1:49.2 | And to make matters even more interesting, we're going to talk about what turned out |
1:54.9 | to be her skull that washed up almost 100 miles away from where the rest of her remains were. |
2:05.3 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Bodybacks. |
2:11.3 | Dave, who was your favorite teacher? |
2:14.0 | Like, do you have a favorite teacher like in elementary school or junior high? |
2:18.3 | Mrs. |
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