UNSOLVED! Burning Man Murder! Nobody Saw Anything? Really??

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The homicide investigation into the death of Vadim Kruglov, a 37-year-old Russian national who called Washington State home, continues as the 70,000 attendees and a killer leave Black Rock City. While everyone focused on the Burning Man, the dying man was laying in a pool of his own blood, bleeding out from a stab wound to the throat. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss what the crime scene is like when the murder happens in a temporary city, where thousands of people are standing around one another but nobody sees a man murdered. A festival of art and piece ends with fire and murder.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:10.4	Arguably, one of the most terrifying movies that I ever saw when I was a kid, was actually made in 1973.
0:24.0	And it's a cult horror film.
0:25.7	I don't know.
0:26.2	It just really scared the devil out of me for whatever reason.
0:31.6	But the name of it was called The Wicker Man.
0:34.7	And I think that the reason it was so terrifying was that the idea was that there were sacrifices being made.
0:47.4	And you see this thing and these offerings that are made at the end of that movie.
0:55.9	And it was something that really stuck with me.
1:01.1	And not being, you know, obviously an attendee to Burning Man.
1:06.5	When I saw this effigy that for years now has been burned in conclusion to that event,
1:13.6	it reminded me of the wicker man.
1:16.9	I'm not the first person that has actually, you know,
1:20.9	talked about this over a period of time.
1:24.2	But you know what's even more terrifying is that when life, maybe on some
1:34.4	level, imitates art, it's one thing to maybe think about, sacrifice, human sacrifice.
1:47.0	It's completely another thing when it comes about that you have a homicide that's committed
1:56.0	in one of the most attended events in American history for a protracted period of time.
2:04.2	As a matter of fact, when an attendee looks down at her feet, she sees a man lying there
2:11.7	in a pool of blood and chaos is all around. there are in fact no answers.
2:22.5	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.
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