Recently Engaged Couple Found Dead: Methanol Found in "Homemade" Limoncello

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When a young newly engaged couple pick up a couple bottles of "Homemade" Limoncello from a local restaurant, they assume they are buying a product that is safe to consume. Greta Marie Otteson, 33, and Els Arno Quinton, 36 are world travelers, she from Great Brittain, he from South Africa, and are celebrating their recent engagement. Cleaning service shows up to clean their room on Boxing Day (December 26) and discovers the couple dead. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look what really happened to the couple and other world travelers who are suffering the same or similar fate.

Transcript Highlights

00:12.79 Introduction: Mardi Gras - Drinking Alcohol

05:07.20 Ethanol vs methanol

10:05.13 "Homemade" Limoncello

15:13.03 Alcohol effects

20:06.36 Atlanta Bathtub gin

25:01.39 Alcohol - different types

30:21.77 Victim contacted mother, talks about worst hangover

35:31.07 Tourist dying drinking methanol instead of ethanol

40:02.02 Methanol poisoning, suspects being charged with murder

43:17.41 Conclusion

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0:00.0	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:04.0	One of the things that's associated with
0:10.0	Mardi Gras is revelry.
0:15.0	I've been to many Mardi Gras parades
0:20.0	in various locations around South Louisiana.
0:23.2	Over the course of my life, it's something that my family has done for years.
0:27.5	Even my grandmother, who was from a very, very religious family, took the train down to New Orleans in the 30s and visited her aunt, Aunt Bertha, as a matter of fact,
0:41.6	was her name, and she lived in the French quarter. And my grandmother actually told me stories
0:48.4	of going to Mardi Gras parades with horse-drawn floats.
0:55.0	And it was amazing, you know, to hear talk about it.
0:58.0	And the actual flambos, where they're illuminating the path,
1:02.0	and they're actually using the flames of the flambos.
1:05.0	That's what it comes from, and they're dancing up and down the streets.
1:08.0	But, you know, and to her eyes from her religious upbringing, it was shocking, you know,
1:14.5	to say the very least.
1:16.4	But it was a memory that stuck with her.
1:18.8	And, of course, as Tom has gone by, I've gone over the years.
1:24.3	And I've taken my family to more family friendly events if you will but all
1:29.9	in all it is an end of a season of the year where you're supposed to celebrate all
1:38.6	those things that have passed and then entering into the Lenton season beg
1:43.8	forgiveness and of course you're gonna fast and then entering into the Lenton season, beg forgiveness.
1:45.3	And, of course, you're going to fast.
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