The homicide investigation into the death of Vadim Kruglov, a 37-year-old Russian national who called Washington State home, continues as the 70,000 attendees and a killer leave Black Rock City. While everyone focused on the Burning Man, the dying man was laying in a pool of his own blood, bleeding out from a stab wound to the throat. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss what the crime scene is like when the murder happens in a temporary city, where thousands of people are standing around one another but nobody sees a man murdered. A festival of art and piece ends with fire and murder.

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Joseph Scott Morgan challenges his class at Jacksonville State University to try and solve a cold case. Two years in a row, two different classes and students chose the unsolved murder of Blake Chappell. Blake Chappell tells his mother he is having the best night of his life with his girlfriend at the East Coweta High School Homecoming Dance. By 6am the next morning, he is missing. Two months later, Blake's body is found in a creek, shot in the head. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the story and how after 14 years, police have arrested Scotty Elliott Smith and have charged him with the 2011 murder of Blake Chappell!

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00:02.06 Introduction, benchmarks in a child's life

02:04.24 Background on Blake Chappell

05:07.36 Looking at a "Cold Case"

09:15.68 JSU Students choose to work Chappell case

14:16.64 Blake walks back to girlfriend's house

19:25.73 5:00am Blake walking, texting

24:14.77 Blake ended up in jail previously

28:42.00 Police playing things close to the vest

33:27.98 Blake was found in his underwear, shot in head

39:07.60 Police arrest Scotty Elliott Smith for murder

45:32.74 Smith had a long criminal record

50:31.54 Conclusion

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On Sept. 8, the Los Angeles Police Department was called to a tow yard in Hollywood over reports of a foul odor coming from a vehicle. The LAPD found decomposing, dismembered, human remains, wrapped in a bag hidden in the front trunk area of a tesla registered in Hempstead, Texas, to 20-year-old, David Anthony Burke. He is known by another name as one of the hottest singer/songwriters on the planet, D4vd. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the victim and how she ended up in the Tesla owned by D4vd. The car was towed from the street in front of the house where D4vd was staying in the Hollywood Hills. When the human remains found in his car were identified, she turned out to be a girl who went missing when she was just 13-years-old. Her name was Celeste Rivas Hernandez, from Lake Elsinore, 70 miles away from where her body was found.

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00:00.00 Introduction, early memories

03:03.83 Somebody caught a whiff of somethin

05:03.85 Tesla Tech might solve the crime

10:11.21 D4vd builds music career from YouTube gaming

14:12.36 Neighbors had car towed

18:34.04 Tesla registered to D4vd

23:18.07 Car will provide a lot of info

28:37.64 Impact of dealing with dismembered body

34:10.66 Victim went "missing" at 13

39:49.69 Post-mortem manipulation of body

43:13.34 Breaking a saw dismembering a person

48:49.73 What did victim leave behind

50:01.20 Conclusion

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