Maleesa Mooney's family hasn't heard from the 31-year-old model for several days.

Worried, they ask police to do a welfare check. Los Angeles police let themselves into her apartment with a key obtained from the manager. The air conditioner has been turned down and the apartment is very cold. Police discover the beaten and bruised body of Maleesa Mooney, with her hands and feet bound, wedged into the refrigerator. There is blood underneath her body. 

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they discuss how this beautiful and talented woman died. 

Time Code Highlights. 

00:02:30 Family of Maleesa Mooney ask police to check on her.

00:03:06 Police find Maleesa Mooney, 31, bound, gagged, stuffed in refrigerator with blood  

00:04:19 The police are working as a homicide.   

00:05:25 Family gets answers from mortuary 

00:07:11 Joe Scott Morgan shares story of mistake he made notifying a mother of how her son died

00:08:27 The victim was greatly traumatized. 

00:09:39 What it would take to put a person inside a refrigerator

00:11:44 Victim was beaten and broken. 

00:14:24 Mooney seen walking into her building on surveillance camera

00:14:42 No forced entry into apartment

00:15:20 The air conditioning in apartment had been turned down and it had been flooded

00:18:00  Items on the table that are commonly associated with needing to be refrigerated, as if the refrigerator been cleaned out.  

00:18:58 Is running water an effort to destroy evidence?

00:19:40   Details on the last time anybody talked to Melissa Mooney.

00:21:27  There's a six day window between last communication and when body is found. . 

00:22:23  Victim has multiple trauma  about her head and her neck. 

00:24:03 Victim is pregnant. 

00:27:27  Family received vague text messages.  

00:30:08  Victim is bound  ankles and wrists.

00:33:11 Victim is gagged.

00:35:15 How would body be examined at the morgue? 

Maleesa Mooney's family hasn't heard from the 31-year-old model for several days.
Worried, they ask police to do a welfare check. Los Angeles police let themselves into her apartment with a key obtained from the manager. The air conditioner has been turned down and the apartment is very cold. Police discover the beaten and bruised body of Maleesa Mooney, with her hands and feet bound, wedged into the refrigerator. There is blood underneath her body. 
Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they discuss how this beautiful and talented woman died. 
Time Code Highlights. 
00:02:30 Family of Maleesa Mooney ask police to check on her.
00:03:06 Police find Maleesa Mooney, 31, bound, gagged, stuffed in refrigerator with blood  
00:04:19 The police are working as a homicide.   
00:05:25 Family gets answers from mortuary 
00:07:11 Joe Scott Morgan shares story of mistake he made notifying a mother of how her son died
00:08:27 The victim was greatly traumatized. 
00:09:39 What it would take to put a person inside a refrigerator
00:11:44 Victim was beaten and broken. 
00:14:24 Mooney seen walking into her building on surveillance camera
00:14:42 No forced entry into apartment
00:15:20 The air conditioning in apartment had been turned down and it had been flooded
00:18:00  Items on the table that are commonly associated with needing to be refrigerated, as if the refrigerator been cleaned out.  
00:18:58 Is running water an effort to destroy evidence?
00:19:40   Details on the last time anybody talked to Melissa Mooney.
00:21:27  There's a six day window between last communication and when body is found. . 
00:22:23  Victim has multiple trauma  about her head and her neck. 
00:24:03 Victim is pregnant. 
00:27:27  Family received vague text messages.  
00:30:08  Victim is bound  ankles and wrists.
00:33:11 Victim is gagged.
00:35:15 How would body be examined at the morgue?

Join Joseph Scott Morgan every week as he explores a world that not many have had a chance to visit, the realm of death. Jo Scott will lead listeners on a journey through the blood soaked death scenes of America and then into the autopsy room to fully understand the science behind each case. Jo Scott is one America’s leading experts on applied forensics and is regularly featured on ‘Crime Stories with Nancy Grace’, ‘The Piketon Massacre’, Court TV and more.

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A Cold-Blooded Murder: The Case of Maleesa Mooney

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