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Speaker 1: you see things that so shock your conscience. You hear

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Speaker 1: going to talk about the death, the homicide, the brutal

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Speaker 1: homicide of a young lady named Cassidy Rainwater, and not

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Speaker 1: least all that remained of her. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan

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Speaker 1: and this is Bodybags. I gotta apologize to you. I

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Speaker 1: me is Dave Mack. He's a senior crime reporter with

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Speaker 1: Crime Online. We cover a lot of things man this case, though,

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Speaker 2: The home of Depravity has no basement? Is that what

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Speaker 2: The house? This is the story that defines that I

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Speaker 2: She was reported missing by a friend who hadn't seen

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Speaker 2: a picture shows up at the FBI field office. But

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Speaker 2: the FBI has a tip line. In this particular case,

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Speaker 2: This story of Cassidy Rainwater is every parent's nightmare. I

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Speaker 2: What did they see? They saw pictures of Cassidy rainwater,

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Speaker 1: You try to validate what they call the provenance of

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Speaker 2: I had never heard that term gantry crane used while

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Speaker 1: Gantry crane. They've been around for a while, and you

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, there's an image that floats

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Speaker 1: have been removed. Now we don't know specifically what cause

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Speaker 2: It's the way you would mark Hamburger Meet if you

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Speaker 2: in there. That's how these were labeled in that freezer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and because of the blood evidence that they were

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Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you a question, because when you

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Speaker 2: are what is left is cassidy rain water. You can

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Speaker 2: need to know what happened? Don't I need to know?

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Speaker 2: Just seeing a picture that could be photoshopped is one thing.

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Speaker 2: Seeing the victim here nude, partially nude inside a cage.

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Speaker 1: It's very difficult because you don't know what status that

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Speaker 1: And the reason we're thinking about this is, for what

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Speaker 1: are going to be asked, certainly in court when this case,

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Speaker 1: if it does it finally does go to trial.

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Speaker 2: There's the one part about what you just said kind

433
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Speaker 2: of it proks my ears a little bit here, buddy.

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Speaker 2: You said, preparing to get rid of these somehow yet

435
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Speaker 2: we know they found something in the freezer label July

436
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Speaker 2: twenty fifth, which I'm based on what we know, that's

437
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Speaker 2: probably the day or real close to the day in

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Speaker 2: which Cassidy Rainwater was murdered and or cut up. Forensically speaking,

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Speaker 2: can you determine if this was a first time effort

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Speaker 2: by the individual or if this is something that had

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Speaker 2: been done before four And the reason I asked that is,

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Speaker 2: we know we have two men, James Phillips and Timothy Norton.

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Speaker 2: James Phillips who Cassid he was staying with in his

444
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Speaker 2: rented house. He called Timothy Norton and said, come here,

445
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 2: I need you to help me hold this person in place,

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Speaker 2: restrain her. And Norton restrained her for a long period

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Speaker 2: of time for Phelips to do whatever it is he's

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00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 2: going to do. And I can say that because Phelps

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Speaker 2: has taken an offered plea in this case, this doesn't

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Speaker 2: sound like the first time these two have done this.

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Speaker 1: What I can't speak to. I think in a case

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Speaker 1: of dismemberment like this, one of the things we look

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Speaker 1: for is the level of skill. All right, there's several

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Speaker 1: things that you look for. First off, at the scene,

455
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Speaker 1: do you have tools at the scene that would easily

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Speaker 1: facilitate the dismemberment of animal remains or human remains? Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's the first thing you're going to check off then,

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Speaker 1: and this is important too. I think folks might not

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Speaker 1: think about this. If you have let's say that they

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Speaker 1: have been butchering deer, or maybe they've got hogs that

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Speaker 1: they butcher, do you have evidence of that at the scene,

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Speaker 1: and what was the level of skill that was applied

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Speaker 1: during that practice and by extension, the remains that you

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Speaker 1: recover that turn out to be human remains. What level

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Speaker 1: of skill is involved? How do we measure that? Well,

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Speaker 1: if you're using, say, for instance, a hacksaw in order

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Speaker 1: to dismember or remain, are you going to the shaft

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Speaker 1: of the bone in order to facilitate this or are

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Speaker 1: you going to a joint which would be more easily

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Speaker 1: facilitated in order to kind of break down the body

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Speaker 1: into base elements where you're removing parts like this. Somebody

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Speaker 1: that has no level of skill, first off, they think

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Speaker 1: that they're going to be able to take a saw

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Speaker 1: and just saw through soft tissue. The saw is not

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Speaker 1: used until the very end. You have to get through

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Speaker 1: the soft tissue. What do you use to do that? Well,

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Speaker 1: you have to use a sharp instrument, and I don't

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Speaker 1: mean saw teeth. You would use classically a butcher's knife.

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00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, are a filet knife. You

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Speaker 1: look to the level of skill of the person that

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Speaker 1: is wielding these instruments. Is there evidence in their past

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Speaker 1: that they have done this sort of thing. If you're

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Speaker 1: an investigator and you're going to go talk to some

484
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Speaker 1: of the principles involved in the case or some of

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Speaker 1: the peripherals rather that know these individuals, one of the

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Speaker 1: first questions you would ask is, are these guys deer hunters?

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Speaker 1: Do they raise hogs or cattle? Have you ever known

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Speaker 1: them to butcher their own food? Do you know if

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Speaker 1: they ever work, for instance, at a slaughterhouse, which obviously

490
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Speaker 1: that would give them access to tools that would give

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Speaker 1: them access to the knowledge that's required, because it's like

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Speaker 1: working on an assembly line. For those of you that

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Speaker 1: have never been to slaughter house, it's that way. You're

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Speaker 1: processing a lot of animals over that period of time.

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Speaker 1: And we have places out here in the rural South

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Speaker 1: we call deer coolers, and the signs pop up every

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Speaker 1: year during deer season, and deer coolers are actually it's

498
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Speaker 1: a term that's used for individuals that have businesses set

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Speaker 1: up that if you go out and you kill a deer,

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Speaker 1: you don't butcher it yourself. You take it to the

501
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Speaker 1: deer cooler and the person there will actually process the

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Speaker 1: animal for you, and they'll make it out anyway you

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Speaker 1: want it made out. They'll cut it into steaks, they'll

504
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: cut it into roast, they'll grind it up to make

505
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Speaker 1: ground meat for you. They have very specific abilities in

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Speaker 1: order to do all this, So you're looking at the

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Speaker 1: level of skill. And this goes again more broadly or

508
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Speaker 1: more specifically to the area in which this is done.

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Speaker 1: Is there a set aside area. How long had this

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Speaker 1: individual possessed this game tree crane. Is it something that

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Speaker 1: they recently bought or is it something that you know

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Speaker 1: they've had for a couple of years. And it's in

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Speaker 1: the same spot. Because if you're using a gantry crane

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Speaker 1: and you quote unquote bleed an animal, well, when you

515
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: open the animal up, it's going to be a huge

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Speaker 1: dump of tissue, specifically blood. And then on top of

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Speaker 1: the blood, when you eviscerate an animal, as you begin

518
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: to dissect out the inside of the animal, those organs

519
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: actually fall to the ground. Well, that's kind of this

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00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: contact trace element that comes into play with the soil

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Speaker 1: or the underlying surface beneath the gantry crane, So you'll

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Speaker 1: have multiple DNA from multiple animals. If you're using this

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Speaker 1: gantry crane to butcher animals in this location, that makes

524
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Speaker 1: it all the more difficult if you introduce human DNA

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Speaker 1: into this environment. It's a wail of an undertaking here

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Speaker 1: from an investigative standpoint, because how do you kind of

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Speaker 1: suss out the animal DNA if it's, say, for since,

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Speaker 1: a deer that has been butchered here from human DNA,

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Speaker 1: And that's something that investigators have to look at very carefully.

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Speaker 2: James Phelps, who was charged with first degree murder in

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Speaker 2: the death of Cassidy Rainwater, has entered an Alfred plea

532
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 2: in the case. We mentioned this earlier, and Alfred plea

533
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 2: does not admit guilt, but acknowledges that prosecutors have enough

534
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 2: evidence to convict if the case had gone to trial. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: Timothy Norton has pled not guilty, has not taken an

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Speaker 2: Alford plea, and he'll be going to trial later.

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Speaker 1: I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Bodybags