SOLVED! After 60 YEARS, Cigarettes Identify The Killer in 1966 Murder!
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In 1966 Marjorie Rudolph, 60, opened the door to her killer. The person beat her over the head with an object, stomped on her enough to break multiple ribs, the drug her to the bathroom and put her in a bathtub full of water, and left. No arrest was made and the case went cold. But the people of San Rafael police department never forgot about Marjorie. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the timeline of what happened to Marjorie Rudolph and how, after 60 years, her killer is identified.
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00:00.86 Introduction
02:59.32 60-year-old Historic case
05:42.30 Cigarette butts solved the murder
10:53.80 Victim found in bathtub filled with water
15:20.15 Investigators had a suspect, couldn't prove it
20:01.10 Husband in hospital
25:02.40 Suspect Laurel Spitzer left town
30:05.91 Biggest piece of evidence
35:17.23 Multiple cigs meant suspect was in house a while
40:24.37 Retired detectives work the case
45:24.48 Othram helping solve cold cases
46:34.16 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Quality Facts with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:09.8 | I spend a lot of time as a college professor focusing in forensics with a specific focus in medical legal death investigation. |
| 0:21.0 | I spent a lot of time with my undergrad students trying to, let's see, introduce them to the world of anatomic analysis. |
| 0:36.6 | And this is, it's kind of an interesting position to be in because many kids |
| 0:42.9 | that I encounter don't necessarily have a grasp on all of the anatomical components. And so it's |
| 0:50.4 | with that set that I have to break it down very simply. |
| 0:54.6 | And of course, part of that is skeletal anatomy. |
| 0:57.5 | I do a whole section, as a matter of fact, on forensic anthropology and clandestine graves. |
| 1:03.3 | But when we begin to break down the bones of the human form, there's one group in particular that's kind of interesting. |
| 1:13.6 | Most people think of a skeleton. |
| 1:16.6 | They might think of the long bones, of the arms or of the legs. |
| 1:20.6 | They might think of the tiny components of the hands and the feet and the ankles. |
| 1:26.6 | But there's a group that are referred to as the flat bones. |
| 1:32.2 | And we have them in our pelvis. |
| 1:34.2 | We have them actually in our head. |
| 1:36.8 | We got a bunch of them on our sides. |
| 1:39.0 | They're called ribs. |
| 1:40.2 | But there's one in particular that is unique among all other flatbones. |
| 1:45.4 | And that is the sternum. |
| 1:49.5 | Today, I want to talk about a case from a long, long time ago, involving a sternum. |
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