Tragedy for the Community | the Homicide of Sasha Krause

Sasha Krause, a Mennonite school teacher in New Mexico, goes missing on January 18th, 2020. About a month later a camper goes out to Sunset Crater Visitor Center, an area 20 miles outside of Flagstaff Arizona, to gather firewood and stumbles upon a body near her campsite. After an autopsy, they identify this body as Sasha Krause. Another month later, Mark Gooch, a U.S. Air Force member is arrested for her murder.

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the significance of how the victim’s body was found, the clothing that was missing, the temperature, and the connection between the victim and the suspect. 

Show Notes:

0:00 - Intro

1:25 - Background and overview of case

4:50 - Where did the investigators start?

7:40 - Setting up a timeline

9:30 - Discovering Sasha Krause’s body

10:50 - Processing the crime scene

12:35 - Drag marks

17:15 - Body position + temperature

24:30 - Finding a suspect: Mark Gooch

27:25 - Putting the evidence together 

28:45 - Significance of missing clothing and lack of DNA evidence

30:50 - Fingerprints

34:05 - Gooch makes an effort to hide his movements from that night

37:10 - Wrap up

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