14 DEAD IN 14 MONTHS - Birmingham's Mass Killer!

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Damien Laron McDaniel III - The alleged Mass Murderer nobody has heard about outside of Birmingham, Alabama. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack trace the path of destruction and death attributed to Damien McDaniel III. Joe Scott explains what a mass casualty event looks like to investigator and how each person killed in a Mass casualty incident is a separate murder case, even though multiple murders happen at the same address.

Transcribe Highlights

00:03.38 Introduction

01:59.92 On person responsible for 14 homicides

05:57.48 14 Dead in 14 months

11:11.25 The number of injured is even higher

17:29.01 First murder victim was a firefighter

21:57.34 Is killer also a paid hitman?

26:16.14 Chaos of mass casualty incident

32:24.30 Person found dead outside club, not intended target?

37:48.82 Each body is an individual case

42:27.10 Same person involved in two mass shooting invidents

46:37.75 Local hospital overwhelmed

52:19.28 Was killer trying to create chaos to hid intended target

58:52.19 Conclusion

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0:00.0	Body Backs with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:04.0	About a month ago, I was contacted by a news reporter.
0:14.0	And it's not unusual to have the press reach out to me.
0:19.0	I'm on all these all these programs and you
0:22.6	know I never you know my wife always says and my buddy Dave always says I'm not in a
0:29.0	position where I can really say no and I take that to heart and I rarely do say no. But
0:35.1	this this was a different phone call because it wasn't a national news reporter from,
0:42.4	you know, one of the big, you know, traditional mainstream media types. This was from a local
0:49.0	news station in Birmingham, Alabama, which, you know, Dave and I roughly, you know, live about
0:56.3	65, 60 miles, I guess, east of Birmingham.
1:02.0	It's the closest big city for us.
1:05.1	And what she wanted to talk to me about was something that was so mind-blowing that had occurred in Birmingham.
1:14.8	And I couldn't believe what I was hearing at the time because of the sheer scale of it.
1:25.3	Most of the time, when we talk about deaths in America, we think of deaths in terms of numbers.
1:36.2	Certainly, that's the way the media measures it. And to a certain degree, those of us that are
1:40.9	death investigators, we remember those huge events because they're so
1:46.8	complex and difficult to watch and participate in.
1:55.3	This had happened almost in our backyard and it was a single individual who is responsible for 14 homicides.
2:08.6	Let me say that number again.
2:11.6	14 homicides and multiple other injuries and they didn't all occur at the same time.
2:21.5	That's what we're going to be talking about on body bags today.
2:28.5	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is body bags.
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