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Speaker 1: Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan. It's been said that

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Speaker 1: the most precious thing that any of us possess is time.

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Speaker 1: You can't add it to your life. I suppose you

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Speaker 1: can waste it, but it's something that you can never

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Speaker 1: get back. We measure our lives by the clock. How

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Speaker 1: long do I have to get to work? How long

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Speaker 1: before I don't know my favorite program comes on? How

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Speaker 1: much longer is this lecture going to last? When it

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Speaker 1: comes to my students at college. But we take its measure.

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Speaker 1: We look at the clock on the wall. Perhaps we

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Speaker 1: look at our phones constantly. There's always kind of an awareness,

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Speaker 1: isn't there? But I want to give you a specific

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Speaker 1: time today, specific time that involves the life of an

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Speaker 1: eleven year old little girl. That specific time is roughly

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes. That's eighteen hundred seconds. Think about that, just

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Speaker 1: for a moment. A life that has been lived from

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Speaker 1: thirty minute window, she is no more. Today we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about one of the most gruesome murders that

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Speaker 1: we've covered in sometime. We're going to talk about the

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Speaker 1: butchering of an eleven year old girl in Miami, Marthakuseman,

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Speaker 1: I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body Bags, Dave.

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Speaker 1: How frequently do you look at the clock? I mean

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Speaker 1: everything you do. I don't see how you do everything

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Speaker 1: you do because you work with Nancy Grace and my lord,

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Speaker 1: the stuff that she has to do. It's so the

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Speaker 1: material is so dense, it moves so quickly. I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to say I'm an afterthought, but you know, compared

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Speaker 1: to Nancy, I move at a glacial pace, and I

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Speaker 1: can't I know you've spent a lot of time looking

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Speaker 1: at the clock, don't you trying to do the next

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Speaker 2: Everything? And it's one of the weirdest things about being

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Speaker 2: married to somebody in the media is the spouse either

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Speaker 2: has to understand that life is built on a clock

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Speaker 2: or you can't be together. It really is that simple,

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Speaker 2: because the reality is I live on a clock. You

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Speaker 2: live on a clock too, with classes and schedules, and

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Speaker 2: you're booked on every show known to mankind. If there's

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Speaker 2: a forensic, if there's a drop of blood somewhere, hey

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Speaker 2: called Joe Scott Morgan. It's pretty cool that is that way.

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Speaker 2: But you're right time is precious.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm not complaining about that, But you're right,

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Speaker 1: Tom is precious, and it is I don't know if

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Speaker 1: we can call it a commodity. I actually think it is. Look,

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Speaker 1: I can tell you that from a life having been

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Speaker 1: lived spent with the dead as I have, it's right

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Speaker 1: in my face. I use it to time since death.

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Speaker 1: When was the last time someone took their medication? How

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Speaker 1: long did this type of injury take in order for

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Speaker 1: someone to die? When was the last time they were

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Speaker 1: seen alive? But from a more philosophical standpoint, I look

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Speaker 1: no one saw it coming.

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Speaker 2: You don't think of an eleven year old as dying

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Speaker 2: a heinous way and then having the person that perpetrated

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Speaker 2: the crime being so cowardly as to try to blame

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Speaker 2: it on the eleven year old victim, which is exactly

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Speaker 2: what happened with Martha Gouseman at eleven years old. The

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Speaker 2: question was it suicide or murder? I'm not kidding, that

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Speaker 2: was a real question. But Joe, as we take a

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Speaker 2: look at some of these not even all, just some

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Speaker 2: I'm wondering, how what does it take to inflict this

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Speaker 2: type of carnage on someone. I don't know if that's

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Speaker 1: Really a lot to examine in this case. Day, But

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Speaker 1: back to something you said deflection in this particular case

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Speaker 1: from an investigative standpoint, the little eleven year old who

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Speaker 2: Well, this is one of those scenarios that plays itself

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Speaker 2: and Miguel Rui's Lobo. They had been involved in a

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Speaker 2: for a while as a family unit. You had, you know, mom,

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Speaker 2: that this man Miguel Rui's Lobo was not good for them.

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Speaker 2: He was not good to her mother. He wasn't good

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Speaker 2: to her, and Martha made that no to her mother. Martha,

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Speaker 2: bad Joe. We've got an eleven year old girl that

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Speaker 2: her mom makes a great decision for me. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: you know what I bet I Mai felt so good.

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Speaker 2: I bet mom felt so good about this decision. Our

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Speaker 2: still chaos, but it wasn't overwhelming to her family, and

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Speaker 1: You get this one element out of the environment, the boyfriend.

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Speaker 1: I'm never a fan of the boyfriend. In this circumstance,

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Speaker 1: Havannah is a really cool place if you've never been there.

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Speaker 2: Joe, when we set the table here to understand what happened,

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Speaker 2: and you mentioned all the blood because a knife was

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Speaker 2: and I don't know that I pointed it out in

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Speaker 2: looking at this, but Miguel Rui's Lobo was not a

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Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty pounds. When Martha, he knew Martha

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Speaker 2: He knew Mom would be gone, Martha would be home alone,

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Speaker 2: a lot of negativity here.

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Speaker 1: But somehow he actually knows the location of a hidden key, Dave.

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Speaker 1: He actually knew the location to a hidden key that

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Speaker 1: he recovered. And you know what, Dave, this can be

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Speaker 1: appreciated on a surveillance tape from outside the apparent apartment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they had to identify when did it take place. Okay,

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Speaker 2: just so you know that mom didn't get home till

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Speaker 2: about two twenty eight that afternoon, and we have on video,

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Speaker 2: we have Miguel Rui's Lobo at the door.

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Speaker 1: Within the details. As an investigator, many times that's where

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Speaker 1: I think, because you're trying to understand this, how do

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Speaker 1: that number again for his size six twenty. That's like

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Speaker 1: the size light, but he could with that kind of size,

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Speaker 1: he could be a linebacker in the NFL sixty four

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Speaker 3: Eleven year old girl.

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Speaker 1: And when I say little, pay attention to that, because Dave,

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Speaker 1: she was only four foot eight and weighed at the

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Speaker 1: time of her autopsy sixty pounds day sixty pounds. So

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Speaker 1: this guy has got access via key that he knew

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Speaker 3: What she could?

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine having this raging bull come in at

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Speaker 2: You know, one of the things that was shown in

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Speaker 2: court was the fact that a neighbor's video camera, surveillance

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Speaker 1: It's an excellent question. Our preference would be a weapon

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Speaker 1: But in this particular case, you know, you got to

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Speaker 2: From the standpoint mom at two twenty eight, now we

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Speaker 1: That's really hard to determine because these hemorrhages, most of

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Speaker 1: Well, a scrape is where it literally means this. It's

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Speaker 1: But if you're using the universal, if you're a defendant

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