Skull of Girl, 17, Found in Wall: COLD CASE SOLVED
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
James Skinner begins doing some work inside his home outside of Chicago when he finds a human skull stuffed in a wall! Not wanting to be accused of a murder, Skinner calls police and they investigate as far as they can in 1978, and after identifying the skull as human, the case goes cold and police send the skull to the Batavia Depot Museum for storage. The skull was forgotten until March of 2021 when supervisors at the museum discovered a box with the skull inside. Joseph Scott Morgan will take you through the investigation that identified the skull and Dave Mack will tell the backstory of the 17-year-old girl, Esther Ann Granger, who died in 1866 and how did her skull end up inside the wall of a home outside of Chicago. A cold case solved with Othram Labs.
00:00:04.46 Introduction
00:04:09.88 A Human skull found inside a wall
00:10:20.41 Explaining what happens to bones that are protected from elements
00:14:14.68 Joe talks anthropology
00:19:09.14 Other than bones, a Bonet was discovered with skull
00:24:31.45 Discussion of Dr. Clyde Snow and his work
00:30:10.59 Age of bones determination
00:34:04.70 Othram Labs identifies a living relative
00:40:36.81 Esther Granger identified, died during childbirth
00:42:36.56 Conclusion - Othram Labs www.dnasolves.com
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| 0:00.0 | Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:04.0 | I've never been much of handy man. |
| 0:08.0 | It's just, it's not my DNA. |
| 0:11.0 | It's just something that I've never felt really confident at it. |
| 0:16.0 | I've got a lot of friends that are that can, you know, |
| 0:20.0 | they seem to be able to create something out |
| 0:24.1 | of absolutely nothing. And that something is like really on the high end as far as quality goes. |
| 0:31.0 | Now, I have worked on the renovations and homes that I've lived in, but, you know, I'm being primarily told what to do. |
| 0:42.5 | I don't have an eye for design or anything like that. |
| 0:45.5 | My skill set rest elsewhere. |
| 0:49.8 | But I can't even begin to imagine that you're some guy that's just bought maybe an old Victorian-style home, |
| 0:59.7 | big front porch, a porch that you could sit on in the evening and feel the cool breeze, |
| 1:06.8 | maybe have an adult beverage, or watch the sun come up and have of course blessed coffee but can |
| 1:13.4 | you imagine being in this home and then saying i'm going to expand this room and the first thing |
| 1:20.0 | i need to do is take this wall out and suddenly you hit it with a hammer or maybe you hit it with |
| 1:24.5 | a sledgehammer and you begin peeling back those layers. |
| 1:28.8 | You can see the bare studs there and you look down and you notice something. |
| 1:36.2 | Kind of white. |
| 1:38.1 | Maybe the light kind of bounces off of it. |
| 1:42.8 | And then all of a sudden you you're face to face with a human skull. |
| 1:51.4 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is bodybacks. |
| 1:58.5 | Dave, are you a big Renault guy? |
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