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Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

The House Is Gone: The Idaho Student Murders

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Idaho house where Madison Mogen , Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were murdered has been demolished.   Prosecution and Defense were both in agreement about the resident being demolished before the trial.

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they discuss what might be missed and who might be helped by the biggest pieced of evidence being destroyed. 

 

Transcript Highlights 

00:01:08 Talk about why the odd shaped home had to come down 

00:02:18 Discussion about destroying house before trial 

00:03:47 Compare being able to visit the home of Lizzie Borden 

 00:05:47 Discussion of taking down horrible crime scenes 

00:08:33 Comparing evidence like knife to house, would a picture of knife be sufficient 

00:09:06 Discussion of both sides in agreement in taking building down 

00:11:28 Talk about how to tell if someone could hear noise from top to bottom of house 

00:13:36 Discussion of first-person perspective 

00:15:48 Discussion of Parkland scene 

00:17:42 Talk about taking jury to crime scene 

00:19:26 Discussion of house layout – would killer have to be familiar 

00:20:39 Talk about moving around rooms in the dark 

00:21:53 Discussion about seeing size of rooms and 'ear' witness

00:24:15 Talk about effective documentation 

00:26:23 Discussion about where suspect entered home 

00:27:07 Discussion about room size 

00:29:51 Talk about dynamic distribution of blood, being able to see it in context 

00:31:32 Discussion of Jeffrey MacDonald case, jury saw murder scene in house 

00:32:4 Talk about without house, no way to know where sound would go 

00:33:51 Discussion comparing Gettysburg site to a house 

 

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0:00.0

Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. It doesn't come about with me as a result of age.

0:20.0

It is something that has plagued me my entire life and that is a curiosity regarding places.

0:31.0

I love to try to understand the origin of places. I love to try to understand the origin of places and the things that occupied a particular space.

0:38.0

I like to drive down the road, particularly through old neighborhoods.

0:42.0

I'm from New Orleans as many of you guys know, and there

0:45.3

are a lot of old dwellings there. Sometimes, though, I am as fascinated by what is not there as I am

0:54.0

am by what is there.

0:56.0

Because you're left wondering,

0:59.0

if you have a space,

1:01.0

let's say for instance, in an old neighborhood, what had occupied that space,

1:06.4

what lives were lived there.

1:08.6

Every place does in fact have a story.

1:11.9

Today on body bags, we're going to step back for a second to November of 2022. To just off campus at the University of Idaho where there was a dwelling, an odd dwelling,

1:30.0

shaped in a bizarre fashion because it had been added on to over the years to accommodate

1:36.4

students.

1:38.6

And now in the present, it is no more.

1:42.3

Today we're going to discuss the demolition of the home or four University

1:49.9

of Idaho students were murdered. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.

2:02.0

Here we are. The house is gone. It's been called many things, a house of horrors. It was called

2:08.8

off-campus housing. It was called the spot of a multiple homicide, but it

2:15.1

The dwelling the physical structure exists no longer I think that's a shame it really is not for any

2:21.2

Perian interest or horror story thing. It's just that on November 13th of

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