Toes Of A Child Sticking Out of Dirt in Backyard

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A landlord staging a property in preparation for a new tenant, sees what appears to be the foot of a child sticking out of the ground. The landlord calls police, and they find the remains of 9-year-old Zemar King III buried in a shallow grave. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about how the mother of Zemar King, Brandee Pierce, is caught in Georgia in January, where she is already in jail, charged with abuse of her three-year-old days before Christmas. Joseph Scott Morgan also explains how investigators determined how Brandee Pierce "smothered" and "choked" her 9-year-old son to death before burying him in a backyard grave and then skipping town.

Transcript Highlights
00:00.01 Introduction
01:53.70 Zemar King, little boy left in shallow grave by his mother
04:57.48 Would a human foot look different than a plastic foot in the dirt?
10:25.76 Investigators benefit from "containment"
14:33.47 Reactionary event, panic
19:12.14 How long has it been since victim died
24:41.84 What actually happened to Zemar?
30:15.49 Hands and feet of Zemar were tied together
36:24.94 Determining how Zemar died - smothering / neck compression
39:28.72 Conclusion: Case is still active, we will update

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0:00.0	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:04.0	Over the course of my adult life, like many of you, I'm sure, I've been, I've found myself in the position of having to rent.
0:17.0	And the rentals that I have had, it's always a mixed bag.
0:23.1	You never know what you're going to get.
0:25.9	You know, and it's amazing how they can kind of polish things up to kind of draw you in,
0:31.0	lure you in, if you will.
0:32.9	Now, I was never one of these that was in some kind of huge apartment complex, you know, like they
0:40.9	have today.
0:41.8	I kind of stuck with renting even a space in an otherwise occupied home.
0:48.1	I've had basement apartments.
0:50.6	I've rented entire homes.
0:52.9	In New Orleans in particular, I had an affinity for shotguns.
0:57.4	Shotgun doubles is what they were called.
0:59.8	You know, everything, as they say, you could fire a shotgun through the front door
1:03.6	and you'd never hit a wall because it'd go out the back door.
1:06.7	But I always liked those homes, and I like the history of them.
1:10.5	But there are certain structures out there, I think, and locations that develop a history along the way.
1:16.6	I've always stated as a death investigator that I truly believe that places many times are haunted.
1:23.6	And they're not necessarily haunted by ghost but by memories and the horror
1:30.4	potentially of what happened. Today we're going to talk about one such case that has
1:39.2	come to my attention that is absolutely horrific and has been described that way by a prosecutor.
1:51.0	Today we're going to talk about a little boy named a Zmar King, who is left in a shallow
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