Hospital Hides Body In Warehouse While Mom Searches For Missing Daughter

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Jessie Marie Peterson, 31, an attorney with Type One Diabetes is admitted to the hospital for a diabetes related illness. Two days later she calls her mother around 2:30pm and asks her to come pick her up and take her home. When her mother shows up two-hours later, she is told that Jessie Marie Peterson checked herself out of the hospital, Against Medical Advice (AMA). Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a close look at what really happened to Jessie Marie Peterson and why was her mother told she had checked out, when according to their own records, she was pronounced dead at 4:27pm at the medical center. While the family spent over a year looking for Jessie, her body had been sitting in a storage facility.

Transcript Highlights

00:05.18 Introduction

01:59.25 Hospital tells family patient left AMA

06:53.65 Family is looking for Jessie Peterson, attorney

11:48.34 Jessie is ready to leave hospital, accomplished woman

16:11.54 Lawsuit filed

21:10.19 She calls her mother at 2:30, two hours later she is gone

25:20.07 Hospital claims she left AMA

30:22.43 Mother begins looking for Jessie

35:15.51 Jessie Marie Peterson was dead and for a year the family is looking for Jessie

40:06.21 Body is placed into cold storage

45:08.31 Her body is found after a year, remains are not viewable

49:01.24 Conclusion

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0:00.0	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:05.4	I don't know of too many people that would want to be admitted to the hospital.
0:13.5	If they, you know, if they had their way in a perfect world, it's certainly not a place where you go to rest because if that's what you're looking for, rest, that is.
0:27.9	You know, go buy an airplane ticket, go some isolated location and rest there or just stay at home.
0:36.6	Hospitals are one of these places that's like a beehive. I've
0:40.3	worked in them. I've always thought of them that way. You've got worker bees that are scurrying
0:45.9	all over the place. They have these very specific jobs that they do. And everybody's important.
0:53.4	It doesn't matter if you're the chief of neurosurgery or you're the janitor.
0:57.7	Everybody has a job.
0:58.8	And if part of it breaks down, then everything else begins to erode.
1:04.7	Well, just like any other kind of, I don't know, organization.
1:15.9	There are problems that arise.
1:18.9	Things that you can't necessarily foresee.
1:24.5	Most of the time, the focus in the hospital, is taking care of those that are ill,
1:32.9	taking care of those who are on death's doorstep and brought back.
1:40.6	But there's another responsibility that hospitals have,
1:52.9	and that is to take care of the dead and their families.
1:59.0	Today we're going to discuss a case that is shocking.
2:01.5	It's shocking for a lot of reasons,
2:03.7	but namely,
2:09.3	a patient walks into a hospital to receive treatment and is not seen again
2:12.3	until her body is discovered in long-term storage.
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