SOLVED! 1964 Torture Murder by "Sadistic Sex Maniac" 61 YEARS AFTER MURDER

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On September 13, 1964, Catherine Blackburn is - bludgeoned, raped, and tortured. A crime so heinous the local coroner said "We're dealing with a sadistic sex maniac." Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at a murder that happened in 1964 and when unsolved until 2025. Joe explains the injuries that include: fractured skull, stab wound in her neck, slashed throat, and heated steak knives on a gas stove used to burn "shapes into her lips and chest". Catherine Blackburn bled to death, and her case went unsolved for more than 60 years.

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00:01.55 Introduction

03:34.72 Exhumation - Tammy Daybell

08:17.05 Monster waiting around the corner

13:23.15 Coroner said whoever did this was a "sadistic sex maniac"

18:21.88 Mutiple areas of hemorrhage

23:40.19 Victim was targeted

28:41.02 Underlying impression of a name became a lead

33:01.64 Forensic detective got into the case in 2018

39:94.96 Exhuming the body of a suspect

43:30.97 Burglars going into private areas

48:36.67 Case Solved, Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:09.7	A long long time ago, there was a king in England.
0:15.8	His name was Charles First, and I've actually spoken about him on bodybacks before.
0:22.0	He was beheaded. He was beheaded.
0:23.8	He was beheaded at the Order of Parliament, who was loosely controlled by a fellow named Oliver Cromwell.
0:33.7	Well, in the wake of the deposing of Charles I, his subsequent execution, Cromwell,
0:44.2	elevated to the position of Lord Protector, did away for a short period of time with the
0:51.2	monarchy. But as with many things in life and death, it never remains the same,
0:58.8	because a few years later, Charles' first son, who had been living in exile, Charles' second,
1:05.7	ascended back to power. And when he did, Cromwell had been dead already buried in a crypt the remainder
1:15.4	of those that had deposed the king were arrested tried drawn and quartered disemboweled
1:23.6	while they were alive as a matter of. And then came to Cromwell.
1:36.9	They disinterred his body and took his head, cut it off, and stuck it on a spike for all to see.
1:46.5	The reason I'm telling you this is that I guess other than just maybe vengeance in some way,
1:48.4	a warning maybe to others,
1:55.9	there was really no need to dig old Ollie up, but they did.
1:59.7	I don't know how much evidence it provided of anything.
2:08.6	But today on Bodybags, we're going to find out if dead men do in fact tell tales.
2:20.8	Because I think they might. And the tale that I have to tell you today is something that would make even Charles II quiver.
2:27.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morton, and this is Bodybacks.
2:38.5	I've been a part of several exhumations over the course of my career.
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