A Huge Problem - Body Builder Murders Ex-Wife Katie Baunach

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Katie Baunach is last seen alive on September 29th, 2022, when she tells a friend she is going to her ex-husband's home to pick up some of her belongings. She obtained a restraining order from him the previous month after allegations he had abused one of their children. When police went to investigate the house they detected “signs of a physical struggle” and upon looking further found something much more sinister.

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss how luminol is used to detect blood, the difficulties of burning a body, non-specific homicidal trauma, “roid rage”, and more.

Show Notes:

0:00 - Intro

1:25 - Background and overview of the case

2:58 - Moving of the car

5:40 - Using luminol to detect blood

12:13 - Who invented spraying blood with luminol to see it under a black light?

14:30 - The difficulties of burning a body

20:34 - Why did the barrel smell of decay? (check)

22:18 - Moving the body

24:10 - How do you determine the cause of death for a body that had been moved multiple times?

26:50 - Non-specific homicidal trauma

30:02 - Dealing with stress

30:33 - Police find suspicious substances

34:03 - What is “roid rage” and what causes it?

40:45 - Wrap up

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0:00.0	We're body bags with Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:19.8	For many people, hours upon hours on hours are spent in a gym working out.
0:30.6	Trying to make their so-called temple, a thing of beauty, something that would be admired by everyone
0:39.0	that came in contact with, something that maybe other people desire to have for themselves.
0:45.8	The way we appear outside doesn't necessarily mean that what we have within us
0:53.1	is going to be very beautiful at all. As a matter of fact,
0:56.4	we can absolutely be rotten to the core. Today, we're going to talk about a 39-year-old mama
1:09.7	and her death at the hands of her husband.
1:14.5	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Body Bags.
1:25.0	Jackie Howard, executive producer of Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, is joining me
1:31.5	today. Jackie, you ever see something that has a luster to it? It's something that you think
1:38.6	that you want, but you know, you look back on it. I think many times as you get older and you think
1:43.9	man, thank heavens, I didn't acquire that thing in my life. And unfortunately, in this case,
1:50.0	this is something that really turned bad and very ugly after many years of marriage.
1:56.9	Katie Bonock was reported missing to Florida police, and she had before her disappearance
2:03.2	accused her ex-husband of physically abusing one of their children, and she had gone to court
2:10.0	to get a restraining order against him, asking that the court send him for counseling.
2:15.8	Now, the night before she went missing, Katie Bonock dropped her children off at a friend's house.
2:22.0	She was on her way to her ex-husband's home to pick up some of her things,
2:26.8	and that was the last time Katie Bonock was seen alive. The next day, police officers visited
2:33.6	Ian Bonock, that was her ex-husband, and found that her car was still parked in his driveway.
2:40.4	Her purse was inside, and neither of the individuals expected to be at the residence
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