The Murders of Scott Sessions and Heather Frank

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Talented and beloved musician, Scott Sessions, is found brutally murdered in an ambush attack, his throat slashed to near decapitation. Shortly afterward, his lover, who lured him to the moment of his death, Heather Frank, is also found dead with gunshot wounds to her chest. Investigators find Heather Frank wrapped in the same burnt plastic as they found Scott Sessions. The suspect? Heather Frank’s boyfriend, Kevin Eastman.

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the horrific murders of Scott Sessions and Heather Frank. They delve into the mechanics of murder by an edged weapon to the throat, the pathology of an enraged killer, rendering a body by fire, and the connective evidence found at both crime scenes.

Show Notes:

1:00 - Introducing the deaths of Scott Sessions and Heather Frank

3:39 - The connection between Scott Sessions, Heather Frank, and Kevin Eastman

4:55 - The visibility of a toxic, abusive relationship on a body

6:54 - Anatomy of bruises and how professionals grade them in abuse cases

13:08 - What happened to Scott Sessions

14:54 - The mechanics of slitting a throat with an edged weapon

17:05 - Volume of blood within the body, types and locations of injuries that cause blood loss, and the forensic importance of a victim’s blood that has pooled outside of the body

22:14 - The horrific injuries Scott Sessions sustained

27:30 - Pathology of a killer who is full of anger and rage

29:18 - The death of Heather Frank

31:59- Why did Heather have to die?

34:36 - The failed attempt to render down Scott’s body by fire and the common evidence found on both victims

39:07 - Looking for connectivity/tieback in forensics: evidence found at both crime scenes

41:57 - The discovery of Scott Sessions and Heather Frank’s bodies

43:57 - The conviction of Kevin Eastman

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0:00.0	BODY Bags with Joseph Scott Morgon
0:18.7	One of my most fond remembrances of living in New Orleans for many years was that he didn't
0:27.2	just have to go to the French Corps you could just be in a neighborhood down there and then off in the
0:31.7	distance you would hear the sound of a trumpet playing and that city is just filled with professional
0:43.4	jazz musicians and it's almost like a siren song it draws you you know you hear that sound it rises
0:49.6	high in the air becomes very soulful and it draws you in and when you get into jazz clubs
0:56.8	and joins the doors are all open you can hear the sounds of music emanating from the doors
1:02.3	that location in America has a lot of trumpeteers but I want to tell you today about a gentleman named
1:12.0	Scott Sessions he lived in a place that wasn't known for jazz I guess it's no more for cowboys maybe
1:20.0	up in Northern Colorado but he was known he was known as a fantastic trumpet tier
1:27.2	he had played for years and years in a variety of bands and was beloved and I mean beloved
1:34.2	but what happened to Scott was absolutely horrific Scott was eventually found deceased
1:42.4	and it turned out they were the murder today I'm going to talk about the murder of Scott Sessions
1:52.5	and Heather Fern I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Bodyguards
2:01.1	I got to tell you when you begin to think about somebody that puts so much time into everything
2:07.2	that they do and they are truly a professional it's almost like seeing somebody throw a brick
2:15.5	through a beautiful stained glass window that's what this is joining me today is my friend Jackie
2:22.8	Howard executive producer of Cromstories with Nancy Gray yet again you picked a very complicated
2:28.8	case that's going to take a lot to unpack this is thought to be a love triangle gone wrong
2:38.2	there's some indications that it may not have been a love triangle gone wrong again a very very
2:44.8	complex case and the deaths that we're talking about today Stanley Scott Sessions 53 the
2:51.5	trumpeter as you were talking about and Heather Frank 48 Heather Frank was dating Kevin Eastman for
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