Sweet Grandmother has arm torn off during carjacking, but where is the blood? The horrifying death of Linda Frickey

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The last thing Linda Frickey heard as she lay beaten, bruised, with her armed ripped off her body, was a friendly voice saying "we'll pray for you". The 73-year-old woman was the victim of a carjacking that was pre-planned by a group of 4 thugs in New Orleans, the oldest only 17-years-old. Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they go behind the headlines on the story of a loving grandmother that died in a gruesome way, with her arm torn off her body. But witnesses ask; Where's the blood?

Transcript Highlights

00:01:29 Talk about Grandmothers

00:04:45 Joe doesn’t want his hometown tarnished

00:05:31 Discussion about Carjacking

00:08:37 Talk about 18-year-old taking a life

00:10:20 Joe talks about living in this area of NOLA

00:11:08 Discussion about witnesses

00:13:45 Talk about ringleader John Honore

00:15:38 Talk about being dragged two blocks

00:21:00 Talk about criminals attacked woman from behind

00:22:44 Discussion of being stuck, drug down the block

00:24:59 Discussion having arm ripped off your body

00:27:21 Talk about how witness covered her body

00:29:24 Discussion of damage done to police officer drug in similar way

00:31:48 Talk about the last thing Mrs. Frickey heard was “we’re praying for you

00:34:07 Discussion of what happened to the blood?

00:40:48 Talk about determining cause of death

00:45:37 Talk about how Mrs. Frickey was beaten in car, then drug down street

00:48:18 Discussion about CCTV cameras

00:49:44 Suspect has been sentenced to prison

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. My grandmother. of her name was Pearl.
0:25.0	Pearl Morgan was her name.
0:28.0	And she essentially raised me.
0:35.4	She taught me everything I knew about our family history.
0:39.6	The history of where our family had come from.
0:45.8	The branches of our family had come from, the branches of our family that had settled throughout Mississippi in South Louisiana. And I embraced that even as a small
0:52.3	child learning from her.
0:55.0	I learned the value of having a meal cooked by her and certainly now at this stage of my life.
1:01.0	I miss that almost more than anything I can imagine. And her
1:07.3	kitchen always had a particular life of its own because that's where the family gathered.
1:15.0	Her sisters would come by every day to eat lunch there.
1:19.0	She had four of them.
1:20.0	Her brother couldn't show up because, well, he was a homicide victim and I was named after him.
1:30.0	But my grandmother left something with me
1:37.0	that I shall never forget.
1:39.8	And that was the soothing, gentle touch of her hand. Whether it was me being sick or needing
1:50.1	comforting during tough times with my parents not around. But I remember the way
1:57.2	her hands looked. I remember the way they felt when she would tell me that everything was going to be okay.
2:07.0	Today I'm going to talk about another grandmother, a grandmother from my hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana.
2:18.4	A lady who died quite arguably one of the most brutal deaths that we can possibly
2:29.8	imagine and she was loved by her children and her grandchildren. That lady's name
2:38.5	is Linda Fricki. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body.
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