A Horrifying Discovery in the Woods - The Death of Cairo Jordan

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

CrimeOnline and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On April 16th, 2022 a mushroom hunter calls 911 to tell them he’s found an abandoned suitcase in the middle of the woods. Inside the suitcase is the body of a young boy. The boy is later identified as 5-year-old Cairo Ammar Jordan from Atlanta, Georgia. He was never reported missing.

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the state of Cairo’s body when it was found, his cause of death, how police process a crime scene like this, what it’s like to discover a body, and much more.

Show Notes:

0:00 - Intro

1:57 - Background and overview of the case

3:10 - How did they get Cairo into the suitcase?

7:25 - The state of Cairo’s body when found

10:45 - Discovering bodies

14:55 - How do police begin processing a scene like this?

18:15 - Joe describes the tests done on evidence found

21:30 - The inside of the suitcase

27:30 - Pulling fingerprints and finding the crime scene as the perpetrator left it

31:35 - Cairo’s cause of death

35:45 - How does an electrolyte imbalance kill you?

38:10 - Viral gastroenteritis

43:10 - Wrap up

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I don't know that there's any kind of love that really measures up to a mom's love for
0:26.0	her babies, particularly when you don't feel good.
0:30.5	For me, I suffered horribly with the earaches when I was a child and the only
0:39.6	soothing to be had was in the arms of my mother. Rocking me in her rocking chair
0:46.4	and singing an old song called Down in the Valley. Kids need that. You need it
0:53.2	when you don't feel good. There's just something about its best medicine on
0:57.1	her. But today I want to talk about a little boy, a little boy that needed
1:03.4	soothing, a little boy that needed help, a little boy that needed healing. Today I'm
1:12.8	going to talk about the murder of Cairo Jordan. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is
1:26.8	Body Bags. My friend Jackie Howard, executive producer of crime stories with
1:37.3	Nancy Grace is here with me. Jackie, my heart's broken. My heart is absolutely
1:44.7	broken over the case we're going to talk about today because I think many of us
1:49.9	can probably identify with this little boy in the sense that he was suffering.
1:56.0	He was certainly suffering probably far more than many of us can even begin to
2:00.2	fathom, but I think that like all of us, we want to be soothed, we want to be
2:04.9	treated like we're special. We want to be assured that everything's going to be
2:12.3	okay. In Cairo's case, I don't think that that that was there for him. The
2:18.6	death of this little boy is really upsetting, especially when you find out with
2:23.0	the release of the autopsy and the cause of his death that it could have been
2:26.1	prevented. The body of this little boy was found inside a travel suitcase. It
2:33.0	looks like the about the size of a small carry on. It is a hard-sided case. And on
2:40.4	the front of this suitcase is the logo of the iconic sign of Welcome to Las
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -873 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CrimeOnline and iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CrimeOnline and iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.