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🗓️ 14 November 2023
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Maleesa Mooney's family doesn't hear from the 31-year-old model for several days. Worried, they ask police to do a welfare check. Los Angeles police let themselves into her apartment with a key obtained from manager. The air conditioner has been turned down and the apartment is very cold. Police discover beaten and bruised body of Maleesa Mooney, with her hands and feet bound, wedged into the refrigerator. There is blood underneath her body.
Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they discuss how they this beautiful and talent woman died.
Time Code Highlights.
00:02:30 Family of Maleesa Mooney ask police to check on her.
00:03:06 Police find Maleesa Mooney, 31, bound, gagged, stuffed in refrigerator with blood
00:04:19 The police are working as a homicide.
00:05:25 Family gets answers from mortuary
00:07:11 Joe Scott Morgan shares story of mistake he made notifying a mother of how her son died
00:08:27 The victim was greatly traumatized.
00:09:39 What it would take to put a person inside a refrigerator
00:11:44 Victim was beaten and broken.
00:14:24 Mooney seen walking into her building on surveillance camera
00:14:42 No forced entry into apartment
00:15:20 The air conditioning in apartment had been turned down and it had been flooded
00:18:00 Items on the table that are commonly associated with needing to be refrigerated, as if the refrigerator been cleaned out.
00:18:58 Is running water an effort to destroy evidence?
00:19:40 Details on the last time anybody talked to Melissa Mooney.
00:21:27 There's a six day window between last communication and when body is found. .
00:22:23 Victim has multiple trauma about her head and her neck.
00:24:03 Victim is pregnant.
00:27:27 Family received vague text messages.
00:30:08 Victim is bound ankles and wrists.
00:33:11 Victim is gagged.
00:35:15 How would body be examined at the morgue?
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0:00.0 | Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. When I was a kid, you could be up late at night. |
0:20.0 | When I was a kid, you could be late at night, sometimes watching TV, and they've always got these |
0:30.1 | public service announcements that come on. |
0:33.0 | You know, I guess it's these stations, they have to do their good deeds. |
0:37.0 | And they'll tell you about things you're not supposed to do, |
0:40.0 | and even back then they would have, don't drink and don't drive stuff. |
0:43.6 | They'd have stuff about drugs but you know one of the most chilling commercials I |
0:47.9 | remember and maybe some of y'all remember too from and it would have been when I was a little kid man back in the back in the 60s. |
0:57.4 | They used to have this old abandoned lot in somewhere in New York and they would show kids playing around all |
1:07.4 | of this garbage and trash and there was a refrigerator there in the middle of that lot and they would have superimposed the word |
1:20.6 | don't over it and the the idea was, and you could hear the kids were saying, |
1:28.0 | here I come, ready or not, and they were played and hide and seek. and one of the purposes for this commercial |
1:34.4 | was to warn people about the dangers of crawling inside of a refrigerator and |
1:41.8 | shutting the door behind them, particularly children. |
1:47.0 | And that always just kind of shook me to my core. |
1:51.0 | Today, we're going to talk about a case that's not in New York. It's actually in LA. |
2:02.0 | In a very upper scale condominium apartment complex in downtown LA involving a beautiful woman who herself is actually found inside of a refrigerator dead. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags. |
2:27.0 | Old refrigerators, they used to lock from the outside. They had that that handle |
2:36.2 | that would actually engage an exterior lock and once you close that thing |
2:40.7 | behind you there was no getting out of this thing. |
2:43.2 | We're talking about a 31 year old model, a Malisa Mooney, who her family hadn't talked to her in a week. they called the police of would you do a |
2:54.0 | welfare check go check on on my beautiful daughter that was what her mom said and they |
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