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Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

Brother Eats Brother's Eyeball After Allegedly Killing Him with Golf Club

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Hertgen family is wealthy and full of athletes. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at the family dynamic that led to one brother allegedly murdering his younger brother, taking out his eyeball and possibly sitting down to a dinner of "brother's eyeball". Joe explains what takes place removing an eyeball and how investigators determine a golf club was used in the murder.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Transcript Highlights

00:00.03 Introduction 

02:55.32 Did Brother take eyeball out of brother

08:20.08 Cat is also dead

13:03.60 questions about crime scenes 

18:05.90 First documented murder

23:42.72 Cannibalism 

29:31.53 1500 story of incest and cannibalism

34:29.38 Golf club used as weapon

39:54.92 Removing an eyeball

44:03.91 Conclusion

 

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0:00.0

Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.

0:04.0

Let me ask a question real quick.

0:08.0

Have you ever been in a situation in your life where you didn't know what to do next?

0:18.0

Maybe you were frustrated, maybe you were lost, maybe you were terrified.

0:26.6

Maybe you were terrified. And maybe you had encroaching thoughts that were rather dark. But

0:34.0

there was something about that moment in time in your life where, like I like to refer to them, the guardrails kind of kept you from running off the road.

0:47.8

What if, just what if?

0:52.1

All those things in your life maybe throughout that had seemed normal now seemed like a

1:00.4

distant memory and the governor was off and you're running wild it's so wild that perhaps you would take the life of your very own sibling and then do something so deranged and something so far from what is accepted in normal society that suddenly you appear to be a monster.

1:38.1

I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.

1:45.0

Dave Mack story came across my desk just in the last week.

1:53.7

And, you know, we've been running around so crazily recently with all the things that we're covering in the

2:03.3

news right now it seems that tempo is picked up once again we kind of ebbs and flows with us doesn't

2:07.8

it um but the this story you know kind of gave me pause because i have not heard of a case of this in some time.

2:23.4

That certainly, you know, kind of drew me in.

2:26.3

And it's a very specific thing that happened.

2:29.9

And we're talking about a homicide here, actually alleged homicide,

2:35.4

brother on brother,

2:39.9

but it goes beyond just merely a homicidal event.

2:44.6

Now we're talking from some reports. We're talking about perhaps a case of cannibalism.

2:52.0

And, you know, just when you and I feel like we've seen everything or heard everything,

2:58.9

hold on to your hat because there's more to be revealed.

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