The unimaginable case of Francisca Monteiro-Balla

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

When Camille Balla calls a coworker and says "I think I killed my mother", the coworker calls 911 on her way to Balla's mother's house. Police find a scene straight out of a horror movie as the follow a blood splatter trail leading to the body of Francisca Monteiro-Balla. Checking the body for vitals an officer notices something on a box a few feet away. It isn't something anyone expects to see, two eyeballs, sitting on a box, appearing to watch the officers as they try to save the life of Francisca Monteiro-Balla.

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they take a close-up look at a case that is just as scary and strange at the beginning as it is in the end.

Transcript Highlights

00:01:26 Joseph Scott Morgan compares Lewis Powell screaming “I am Mad” to
Camille Balla screaming “I am a murderer”

00:02:50 Talk about Police arrive to scene and find woman’s eyes removed

00:04:05 Dave Mack breaks down story of Camille Balla calls co-worker and tells her “I think I killed my mother”

00:06:12 Talk about County Jail versus prison

00:08:05 Discussion about Camille Balla screaming “I’m a murderer”

00:10:08 Discussion of bloody crime scene, eyeballs removed from victim, placed on cardboard box

00:11:25 Describing difference between blood “spatter” and blood “splatter”

00:13:46 Discussion about victim’s injuries

00:16:01 Talk about the fight between mother and daughter, and eyeballs removed from victim

00:17:56 Joe describes removal of eyeball

00:20:37 Discussion of suspect removing eyes from the front

00:22:43 Talk about Camille Balla claims to have smoked marijuana laced with Flocka prior to attack on her mother

00:26:12 Discussion of charges being reduced from First-Degree Murder to Manslaughter

00:28:34 Talk about broken glass around scene, blood from perpetrator and victim co-mingled making thing forensically more complicated

00:29:06 Camille Balla pleaded guilty to manslaughter, sentenced to 15-years in prison followed by 15-years on probation.

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. when we think of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln it kind of begins and ends with
0:25.6	the shooting and subsequent death of Abraham Lincoln at the hands of John Wilkes Booth
0:31.6	but you know there were other people involved in this
0:34.7	plot to kill the president other than John Wilkes Booth. One in particular was a fellow who was named Lewis Powell. And Lewis Powell on the same
0:48.5	night that Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater was given the assignment. He was part of the conspirators. To kill the Secretary of State, William Seward.
1:02.0	William Seward was in his home in Washington. He had neck brace on. He had
1:06.8	neck brace on. He had been involved in a carriage accident some days earlier and he
1:11.6	was bedridden and Lewis Powell made his way into the
1:17.8	Seward's bedroom with a knife after he had pushed past the matri-rede in the house had attacked and when he made his way to William
1:29.4	Seward's bed he began stabbing him over and over again. The only thing that saved Seward's life was the fact that
1:37.9	he had this neck brace in and he was trying to stab him in the neck. Louis Powell eventually fled from Seward's home
1:45.8	and ran into the streets, and I quote,
1:49.1	screaming, I'm mad, I'm mad. And I don't mean mad like angry I mean like he's saying that he's crazy on today's
2:01.1	case on body backs we going to talk about a woman who was actually saying something
2:07.6	very similar to what Louis Powell said all those years ago, she said, I'm a murderer. I'm a murderer. And you
2:18.8	know what? That was confirmed when the police entered into the home of her mother and found not just the greatly traumatized body of her mother, mother,
2:34.0	something that was staring back at them.
2:36.0	Her mother's eyes
2:38.0	that had been removed
2:39.0	and placed on a cardboard box adjacent to a remains.
2:45.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.
2:49.0	There's something about anything affecting my sight. I've always had to wear glasses.
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