Body Found In Freezer in NJ Woods is Missing Mom!

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

John Tyrrell is in the New Jersey woods when he finds a refrigerator that is wrapped in a sleeping bag, secured with blue ratchet straps, and covered with carpet. Tyrrell takes one look inside and calls police, he has just found missing mom, Laura Hughes. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss how the decomposed body is identified and what investigators do to nab the suspect in an international manhunt.

Transcription Highlights

00:03.04 Introduction

03:47.47 Using refrigerator as casket

08:29.44 Digital data solves crimes

12:29.05 Finder wont give phone to police

17:40.80 Did perp keep refrigerator plugged in?

23:05.79 "purge fluid"

28:13.49 Removing clothes from the dead

33:45.56 Positive ID of victim

38:09.70 Items used to identify the dead

43:13.15 Calender in suspect apartment with "X" marks

48:09.54 Bullet defect and trajectory

49:23.36 Conclusion

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0:00.0	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:05.0	It's kind of interesting the world that we live in and the spaces that we inhabit.
0:13.0	Items within our homes or maybe our work environment become utilized for something other than what they may have been intended to be used for.
0:28.6	I'm thinking about places that I've gone as a death investigator where I've gone to a woodworker shop and a bandsaw for instance was used to dismember a body.
0:41.3	Or maybe digging under the sink at a home and I find ant poisoning and that same ant
0:49.3	poisoning was used. Poison, strike that in three, two, and that same ant poison was used. Poison, strike that in three, two, and that same ant poison was used to kill a lady at the hands of her husband.
1:03.0	Some things just seem kind of innocuous. For instance, I don't know about you guys, but I do like a good cold beverage every now and then.
1:14.5	I like walking into my tiny little galley-style kitchen.
1:19.2	Kim and I live in a very small home.
1:22.3	Popping up my refrigerator and getting my jug of water out or iced tea or maybe an adult beverage.
1:32.6	You don't normally think of a refrigerator being used as a coffin.
1:41.1	But today we are going to have that discussion because there is a case that originates out of New Jersey that caught the attention of both myself and my buddy Dave Mack.
1:54.8	And we wanted to have, as the British say, a chinwack about it.
1:59.9	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and and this is Bodybacks.
2:06.9	Dave, I've currently got a refrigerator that I don't like.
2:11.2	I will not mention the brand name because it came with the house when we purchased the house several years ago
2:19.3	but to say that it is less than superior uh equipment would be an insult to other types of
2:29.5	equipment i don't know that the ice maker has ever accurately worked and And every time you open the actual door for the freezer, ice falls out, falls out, you know.
2:42.0	And it goes out from time to time.
2:44.2	It throws those codes up, you know, the little weird codes that I don't, and I don't have an owner's manual for it.
2:50.4	Yeah, Joe.
2:51.3	When you have a refrigerator that has digital readout and computer stuff, at some point in time, you go, where's the cold button?
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