The Mayor and The Murders

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A former Mayor with 28 years of law enforcement experience has been charged with first-degree murder in a triple homicide. In this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will break down the weapons used in the murders and the possibility that one of the victims died while he was on the phone with 911. Dave Mack will try and explain what happened four days before the shooting that may have led to the murders.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00 Introduction people seeking power

00:02:12 Discussion ex-mayor suspect triple homicide

00:07:45 Discussion Triple homicide, 911 caller goes silent on call

00:12:21 Talk about different types of guns

00:17:35 Discussion suspect shows up with multiple weapons

00:22:12 Discussion triple homicide occurs four days after event that led to it

00:27:14 Discussion of defense strategy for shooting three people

00:33:17 Talk about suspect showing up armed, left home enraged

00:38:26 Discussion of victims shot with different guns

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0:00.0	Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:06.0	Many times we wonder why certain individuals choose a particular profession.
0:15.0	There's any number of motivations, you know, behind it, maybe, it's a generational thing.
0:23.0	Maybe you're trying to listen to your own inner voice and you go down a path that no one had ever expected but then there are those
0:38.2	individuals that they seek out positions where they can be in power.
0:49.0	It doesn't really matter that they don't have much substance to them or that they don't bring anything
0:56.3	edifying to the table. We're going to talk about a case.
1:03.0	Actually, it's dismissive to say a case.
1:07.0	It's not singular.
1:09.0	It's cases.
1:10.0	And the reason I say, case is we're going to talk about a triple homicide involving one such individual who possibly sought out employment as law enforcement
1:32.2	officer so that he could quote unquote be in charge.
1:38.0	So Morgan why would you say that he law enforcement officer he's gonna to be in charge yeah I guess you could
1:44.5	question that but you know this guy was not only previously a law
1:50.2	enforcement officer he was also a sitting mayor. The only difference is, is that with
1:57.8	him he's a triple homicide suspect. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags. Dave don't you
2:11.2	hate to be around folks that are, I don't know, self-endowed with power, I guess, they, it's always been the measure to me that if you have power and you choose not to
2:27.9	wield it, that you hold it in reserve.
2:33.8	It's always the quiet person in the room, isn't it?
2:36.4	They say that's the most dangerous person in the room.
2:39.6	That has power, but yet they choose not to overstep the boundaries of good
2:46.0	taste that's the person I'm I'm concerned about but you know you get somebody
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