Unsolved Double Homicide: Married 68 Years, Who Killed Russell and Shirley

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The double homicide of Russell and Shirley Dermond rocked their gated community along Lake Oconee in Georgia.. The decapitated body of 88-year-old Russell Dermond was found in the garage and his wife of 68 years, 87-year Shirley Dermond was found in Lake Oconee weighted down with cinder blocks, 10 days after Russell's body was found. On this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, you will learn about the evidence investigators found at the crime scene as well as what can be learned from a body that may have been in a lake for 10 days. The double homicide has gone unsolved for 10 years and the head of Russell Dermond has never been found. How was this elderly couple, married 68 years, murdered and why?

Transcript Highlights

00:00:08 Introduction about murders

00:05:00 Discussion about neighbor checking on Dermond’s

00:09:34 Talk about unsolved murders, 10 years

00:14:04 Discussion about Shirley Dermond body found in lake

00:19:05 Discussion of Russell Dermond head, it’s missing

00:23:51 Discussion about Shirley was weighted down

00:28:08 Talk after 10 years, case still unsolved

00:31:39 Discussion of lack of blood at scene

00:34:52 Talk about how head was removed

00:37:57 Talk about DNA evidence

00:40:28 Conclusion: After a decade, new evidence might solve the case

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. I truly love bodies of water.
0:22.0	For some reason something clicked in me a few years ago. I used to like
0:25.5	going to the mountains. Mountains where I would find peace and maybe a respite. But as I've gotten older, water almost has a healing effect on me. I think
0:38.0	that people can understand that and that go and spend time at the beach perhaps.
0:42.8	You listen to the waves.
0:45.0	You feel the sun on your skin.
0:47.7	Some people like going to the lake, as they say.
0:51.0	And just sit and stare at the lake maybe in a lawn chair and they are pretty but I've
0:58.1	developed a real affinity a lot of it has to do with the boat that I have now. It's an old boat. I've developed a real affinity for rivers.
1:08.0	The thing about a river is that you know it has a beginning and an end, but what's underneath it is completely different
1:18.8	than what's beneath a lake, because it's always changing.
1:23.0	Something that's just beneath the surface
1:25.0	that you can't necessarily see,
1:27.0	and hey, just because it's beneath the surface
1:30.0	one day in one specific location does not mean it will be in the same place the next day
1:36.7	because rivers change much like a life I'm not the first person to make that
1:41.6	conclusion rivers have been compared to life for years and years, our journey, if you will.
1:47.8	There's something peaceful about them, though.
1:50.4	I want to chat a bit with you today about a river that actually turns into a lake and then becomes another lake and then becomes a river once again. I want to talk to you about one of the most
2:07.9	interesting and tragic unsolved in recent memory in the state of Georgia. The Germans.
2:20.1	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.
2:24.7	Today, you know, we're gonna talk about the O'Cony River, but it's actually Lake O'Cony, there in eastern central Georgia,
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