Stabbed, Set on Fire as They Slept: The Bermudez Family Murders

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Sara Bermudez, 38, and her three children, Madison, 8, James, 6, and Michael, 2, are viciously attacked in the middle of the night while they sleep.

The murderer Sexually assaults Sara and her 8-year-old daughter, with a knife and stabs the family to death before setting them on fire. Sara's father finds the carnage and calls for Help. Investigators catch a break in that the killer tried to use diesel to fuel the fire but it burned itself out before totally destroying all the evidence.

Joseph Scott Morgan is going to take you inside the master bedroom and explain how investigators find a suspect from a portion of body fluid left behind at the scene. And the suspect isn't just close to the family, he is family.

Transcript Highlights
00:00.96 Introduction - chewing and identity
04:20.45 Somebody breaks into a home in the middle of the night Slaughters the mom, daughter, two boys
09:20.18 Family murdered and set on fire
14:12.60 Disturbing element to the case
18:12.07 Setting up a line to prevent contamination
22:57.18 Evidence of sexual assault
28:07.64 Knife used in sexual attack
32:56.90 Blood stains found on walls, carpet, lamp, other items
37:12.63 Finding blood in the fire
42:00.92 Mother defended her children
44:58.66 Conclusion

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0:00.0	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:05.7	You know, most people don't think about chewing.
0:11.2	I'm one of those people that does.
0:14.8	As I was growing up, I've got a tooth that's actually recessed.
0:20.3	It sits back.
0:21.1	It's actually the left upper incisor.
0:29.4	And the reason it bothers me that I do think about chewing many times is that the tooth is so far set back that I have lacerated my tongue a couple of times.
0:40.9	So you, you know, you kind of have, every now and then you'll kind of have this hyper awareness,
0:45.5	you know, except when it comes to my wife's cherry cobbler.
0:49.8	I don't think about it too much then.
0:53.8	The whole mechanism of digestion is something that most of us never consider.
1:01.5	But for those of you that don't know, digestion actually begins in the mouth.
1:08.0	You said, well, Morgan, that's kind of obvious.
1:10.7	Yeah, it kind of is, but I'm talking about at
1:13.5	a molecular level. Because there is a substance contained in the mouth that is a component of
1:21.4	saliva that is called amylase. And it's at that moment in time where we ingest food and that breakdown begins to occur,
1:36.7	particularly as it applies to carbohydrates.
1:39.6	But you know what else?
1:43.6	Anytime a bit of saliva is left behind, therein rest amylase.
1:53.3	And amylase is distinctive.
1:56.3	It's distinctive and can be tied back to an individual.
2:00.8	The case we're going to talk about today, or should I say... distinctive and can be tied back to an individual.
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