New Orleans police executing a search warrant related to a missing person, find a dismembered body. The headless torso was found inside a freezer, which was inside a bus, parked next to a home. Drop cord had been run to the bus to power the freezer. The remains have been identified as Julia Dardar …
On July 1, Bart and Krista Halderson decide to go to their lakeside cottage…at least that’s what their son, Chandler, says. Six days later, the 23-year-old reports his parents as missing. An investigation ensues, and a series of lies are uncovered, lies that start long before Chandler Halderson says he parents went on a trip. …
Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys are calling for a new trial after the news that at least one juror failed to disclose that he was a victim of sexual abuse. There may be as many as four jurors. The identified juror, Number 50, has given several interviews and has divulged that he told the other jurors his …
A body is found. Investigators are called, but who’s going to show up? Will it be a coroner or a medical examiner? Today on Body Bags, former death investigator Joseph Scott Morgan answers the question: What’s the difference?
A chaotic opening night at the Astroworld Festival results in 10 people dead and hundreds more injured, as the crowd of 50,000 people surges toward the stage during Travis Scott’s concert. Victims range in age from nine to 27. The event, which reportedly drew 50,000 people, turned deadly around 9:30 p.m. Friday when the crowd …
Gannon Stauch, 11, was reported missing by his stepmother, Letecia Stauch, in January 2020. Two months later, the boy’s body is found 1,400 miles away from his Colorado home, under a bridge in Pace, Florida. We now know Gannon Stauch was murdered in his bedroom by his stepmother, according to El Paso County police. Letecia …
Chad Daybell’s trial for multiple counts of first-degree murder is set to begin just after the new year. The Idaho man is accused of killing his wife, Tammy Daybell, and the children of the woman he marries just two weeks after Tammy died. JJ and Tylee Vallow are missing for months before their bodies are …
After weeks of searching for Brian Laundrie, the main suspect in the death of his girlfriend Gabby Petito, a partial skull is found in the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in Florida. The remains and skull are confirmed to belong to Laundrie. The medical examiner concluded that Laundrie died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. …
A South Carolina dad drives his five children around the deep south for nine days. Their bodies are in garbage bags in the trunk. Timothy Jones Jr. strangles four of them. The other, a 6-year-old boy named Nahtahn, is forced to exercise until he dies. The dad uses the activity as punishment after he accuses …
Katherine “Katie” Janness takes her dog, Bowie, for a late-night walk in Midtown Atlanta on July 28, off of 10th Street and Charles Allen Drive. Janness stops at a local bar to say hello to her girlfriend, Emma Clark, who’s working at the time. When Clark gets off work at around 1 a.m. and goes …
After weeks of speculation, the cause of death for Gabby Petito has been released. When Petito’s autopsy was performed, the coroner said quickly that Gabby was murdered. This week, we found out that the young woman was strangled to death by “human force.” Dr. Brent Blue said that Petito was throttled. In today’s Body Bags, …
Gabby Petito was strangled to death by “human force,” according to Dr. Brent Blue, the coroner of Teton County, Wyoming. He said in a televised interview that Petito was throttled. Throttling means that someone was strangled by human force, with no mechanical force involved. I n the hours since Gabby Petito’s cause of death was …
