Tragedy for the Community | the Homicide of Sasha Krause

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Sasha Krause, a Mennonite school teacher in New Mexico, goes missing on January 18th, 2020. About a month later a camper goes out to Sunset Crater Visitor Center, an area 20 miles outside of Flagstaff Arizona, to gather firewood and stumbles upon a body near her campsite. After an autopsy, they identify this body as Sasha Krause. Another month later, Mark Gooch, a U.S. Air Force member is arrested for her murder.

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the significance of how the victim’s body was found, the clothing that was missing, the temperature, and the connection between the victim and the suspect.

Show Notes:

0:00 - Intro

1:25 - Background and overview of case

4:50 - Where did the investigators start?

7:40 - Setting up a timeline

9:30 - Discovering Sasha Krause’s body

10:50 - Processing the crime scene

12:35 - Drag marks

17:15 - Body position + temperature

24:30 - Finding a suspect: Mark Gooch

27:25 - Putting the evidence together

28:45 - Significance of missing clothing and lack of DNA evidence

30:50 - Fingerprints

34:05 - Gooch makes an effort to hide his movements from that night

37:10 - Wrap up

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0:00.0	I guess like many people my age we grew up going to vacation Bible school during the summer
0:26.8	going to Sunday school on Sundays and unlike being in school there was
0:34.4	something different about Sunday school teacher they they weren't there for
0:38.0	the pay they were there because they felt as though that it was a calling they
0:43.2	wanted to teach kids right from wrong essentially and I have fond memories of
0:48.8	those that that taught me as a small child but today we're going to talk about
0:56.6	a woman who had essentially devoted her entire life to God and to the
1:05.3	education of children in her community today we're going to talk about the
1:12.3	homicide of Sasha Kraus. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags. Joining
1:25.7	me today is Jackie Howard Executive Producer of Crime Stories with Nancy
1:30.2	Grey's. I can't fathom why anyone in the world would multi just randomly
1:41.0	set about destroying such a beautiful life but I'm beginning to think about what
1:49.0	happened to Sarah Kraus out there in that cold desert northern Arizona and it
1:58.6	conjures up images of monsters rising up out of the dark and I think that
2:03.3	that is probably what happened in the case of Sarah just living her life not a
2:07.8	care in the world other than taking care of these kids that were in her charge
2:11.2	and then suddenly she vanishes from her men and I community. There are so many facts
2:17.7	in this case Joe that really are difficult to understand the first thing for me
2:24.2	that struck me 27 year old Sasha Kraus was a Sunday school teacher and she
2:31.1	worked in the publishing industry and she was shot in the head and left in the
2:36.9	cold. She disappeared from New Mexico in January of 2020 and her body was found
2:43.6	by a camper in Arizona. Remember it's January her body was left out in the
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