Episode 320: Cory Morris

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On July 14, 2002, a 43-year-old woman is found dead in an alley in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. The mother of eight’s passing isn’t clear, but no foul play is suspected to be involved. It’s not until nine months later that law enforcement receives a disturbing tip from a member of the public, who has discovered something horrifying. Detectives begin to join the dots leading them not just to the killer, but the full gruesome magnitude of what he has done in the months since her death. Tragically, by this stage, more vulnerable women had already lost their lives, in cases of what police all originally suspected were drug overdoses. In episode 320, Jac and Alexis detail the chilling case of Cory Morris, a violent offender who became known as the Crackhead Serial Killer, and whose victims' deaths were initially not believed to be due to depravity, but accidents.

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0:00.0	It's a degree.
0:02.0	First degree. First degree. First degree. First degree. First degree. First degree.
0:06.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	See it on the news.
0:10.0	See it on the table. You see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:16.0	There was a lot of suspicion about drug use with these deaths and potential overdoses.
0:30.0	I don't think that there was a lot of speculation on necessarily murder as far as somebody beating somebody up or anything else,
0:41.6	but it started happening often enough that people started
0:46.4	thinking there is a connection either there are some bad drugs out there or there is a bad person doing something.
0:56.2	There was one morning that I was at home and he called me up and he told me to turn on the news. I mean it was wild it was like something out of a
1:07.0	TV show. I never ever would have thought that I could have a conversation with somebody who was
1:16.6	capable of doing these things. Welcome to the first degree, the True Crime
1:21.0	podcast that you might end up on my name is
1:23.4	Jack panic I'm sitting here with Alexis link letter it's got to be the fourth
1:26.3	week in a row that she's wearing her Foo Fighters sweatshirt while we record
1:30.0	I'm telling you I wash it but I just love it because it's got a zipper and my other ones are over the head.
1:37.0	Yeah, I know I think we talked about this maybe for Patreon but a zipper put, I mean that was an emo staple.
1:44.2	That's all I used to wear when I was younger.
1:45.6	We never wore crew necks.
1:47.1	It was always a zippa puddy.
1:49.1	And I made one for my clothing line last year,
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