The Body Under the Stairs: The Death of Eric Mercado

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Trista Spicer tells everyone her live-in boyfriend, Eric Mercado, left the house on October 11, 2014, and never returned. Mercado’s family called him “Nino” and they printed up posters, circulated info on social media and physically looked for their “Nino” with no luck. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will detail what happens when someone is hit in the face with a frying pan and their throat is slit with a box cutter. Dave Mack will investigate the relationship between Trista Spicer, Eric Mercado, and Waylan Gentry, and who gave the police the “tip” that turned a missing persons case into a homicide investigation.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.01. Introduction - walking through graveyards

05:08.07 Discussion of social media, sharing too much

10:07.10. Discussion of victim, early 40s

15:35.82. Talk about spouses

20:20.01. Discussion about a missing family member

26:08.66 Discussion of what did Suspect tell new boyfriend

31:18.61. Talk about tattoos

36:39.54 Discussion - somebody always talks

40:26.66 Discussion of soft tissue, dehydrated skin

42:04:13 Conclusion - Face smashed in with frying pan, throat slit

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0:00.0	Body bags with Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:04.0	I love walking through graveyards.
0:08.0	People find that strange, I know,
0:11.0	but there's a certain solemnity about it.
0:14.0	They're peaceful.
0:15.0	They truly are.
0:17.0	And then there's a certain beauty in it.
0:18.0	You know, they're always placed or they've grown, I think,
0:22.0	with beautiful trees landscaping and then you have the
0:25.6	oristry that goes into the design of headstones or memorials that are there.
0:33.3	There are even little benches many times where you can kind of sit back
0:37.5	and contemplate things.
0:39.9	It's always peaceful to me.
0:42.1	There are a couple near where I live and one in particular I take
0:47.1	my students to every year. It's as an adjunct to a class I teach called clandestine
0:52.3	graves. There is a piece there and for
0:57.9	years and years people have had family graveyards where they have taken their dead and buried them on their property so that they could watch care over them as the decades past. However, one thing that you don't expect to find in a residential area is a grave, a truly clandestine grave in the backyard of a home that had been there for almost a decade until somebody finally revealed what was truly
1:41.0	buried in the backyard.
1:45.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.
1:51.0	Dave, some people call me jaded I know I don't know if jaded is the right term
1:55.9	cynical maybe okay but hey very quickly Joe today on this episode of body bags
2:01.9	we're talking about Eric Mercado who has been living with
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