Gone Without A Trace - Where are Joey and Jaclyn?

In Battle Creek, Michigan, Chad Allen Reed is the owner of a property. He lives on the bottom floor and rents out the top floor. He complains to everyone about the couple renting his upstairs, Joe Soule and Jaclyn Lepird are loud at night and Reed doesn't like it. When Joe and Jaclyn vanish, everyone is looking for them, except for Chad Allen Reed. He is too busy trying to hide what he has done. His property burns 5 times in 7 days but Chad Allen Reed is being haunted by the smell. Two bodies, wrapped in plastic, hidden in the back of a pickup truck. When nobody solves the mystery of what happened to Joe Soule and Jaclyn Lepird, Chad Allen Reed calls the tip line himself, and tells them what happened!

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the story of the Murdering Landlord and find out what evidence is left behind when two people are murdered on grass in a yard.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:07 Joseph Scott Morgan shares a renting nightmare

00:04:23 discussion of landlord complaining about tenant

00:05:20 Joe talks about trauma and evidence left behind at the scene

00:07:58 Landlord confronted tenants over noise

00:10:37 Discussion of the matter of cutting and bludgeoning someone

00:12:25 Talk about postmortem interval

00:13:23 Chad Allen Read shoots Joe Soule, shoots Jaclyn Lepird in the back

00:15:38 Discussion about Read beating Lepird with a pipe

00:16:37 Joe explains “Bullet Wipe”

00:18:32 Discussion about evidence left in yard

00:19:42 Talk about 2 people missing

00:21:51 Evidence left behind by 2 victims

00:23:31 Explanation of how bodies are examined in morgue

00:25:44 Discussion about perpetrators not putting distance between themselves and their victims

00:27:49 Bodies wrapped in plastic create more evidence

00:29:18 Talk about 5 fires in 7 days

00:30:13 Chad Allen Read calls the tipline himself

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