John Tyrrell is in the New Jersey woods when he finds a refrigerator that is wrapped in a sleeping bag, secured with blue ratchet straps, and covered with carpet. Tyrrell takes one look inside and calls police, he has just found missing mom, Laura Hughes. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss how the decomposed body is identified and what investigators do to nab the suspect in an international manhunt.
Transcription Highlights
00:03.04 Introduction
03:47.47 Using refrigerator as casket
08:29.44 Digital data solves crimes
12:29.05 Finder wont give phone to police
17:40.80 Did perp keep refrigerator plugged in?
23:05.79 "purge fluid"
28:13.49 Removing clothes from the dead
33:45.56 Positive ID of victim
38:09.70 Items used to identify the dead
43:13.15 Calender in suspect apartment with "X" marks
48:09.54 Bullet defect and trajectory
49:23.36 Conclusion

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