Backyard Burials

Small Town Mysteries

I mean, the title really does say it all! This week, Rachael digs into (get it?) people who bury others in their backyard. Get ready for some very gratifying karma in this one, folks.
Rachael highlights four separate cases and goes into some statistics on backyard burials, because this is apparently something that is common enough for people to write academic journals on...yikes.
Sources:
1) https://lawandcrime.com/crime/man-strangled-girlfriend-to-death-then-had-a-fatal-cardiac-event-while-burying-the-body-sheriff/
2) https://nypost.com/2022/05/11/joseph-mckinnon-dead-of-heart-attack-while-burying-patricia-dent-after-he-killed-her/
3) https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/joseph-mckinnon-dies-burying-patricia-dent-murder
4) https://www.hatcherfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Mrs-Patricia-Ruth-Vaughn-Dent?obId=24833199
5) https://people.com/crime/man-dies-heart-attack-trying-bury-girlfriends-body-after-murdering-her/
6) https://www.wlox.com/2022/09/19/st-martin-man-gets-life-killing-woman-found-buried-his-backyard/
7) https://www.wxxv25.com/missing-woman-found-backyard-identified/
8) https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/body-of-missing-woman-found-buried/
9) https://www.tapinto.net/towns/coral-springs/sections/police-and-fire/articles/missing-coral-springs-woman-found-buried-in-mississippi-backyard
10) https://www.co.jackson.ms.us/DocumentCenter/View/919/State-of-the-Department-2020
11) https://www.theledger.com/story/news/2014/04/25/lake-alfred-woman-found-guilty/8174473007/
12)https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2014/4/24/jury_deliberating_in#:~:text=Prosecutors%20argue%20Scott%2C%2066%2C%20shot,used%20it%20to%20kill%20him.
13) https://www.news9.com/story/5e35ada383eff40362beabfe/wife-who-buried-former-oklahoma-man-in-garden-charged-with-murder
14) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2128396/Elderly-woman-murdered-husband-buried-body-backyard-tired-looking-him.html
15) https://westorlandonews.com/woman-who-buried-husbands-body-in-backyard-charged-with-murder/
16) https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2012/04/11/wife-of-man-buried-in-yard-charged-with-murder/
17) https://www.wesh.com/article/police-woman-shot-tied-up-buried-husband/4415772
18) https://www.theledger.com/story/news/2012/04/11/wife-charged-with-killing-ailing/8057965007/
19)https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2694780/#:~:text=Filicide%20is%20defined%20as%20the,of%20life%20it%20is%20neonaticide.
20) https://www.newsweek.com/baby-discovered-buried-backyard-parents-arrested-north-carolina-1735666
21) https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-north-carolina-baby-dead-murder-cousins-20220831-ucrqn4s2xfg4dllcppe2zjcb6a-story.html
22) https://abc11.com/infant-death-erwin-body-found-autopsy/12180924/
23) https://www.wspa.com/news/crime/its-heartbreaking-neighbors-shocked-saddened-after-dead-baby-found-buried-at-erwin-nc-home/
24) https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shadow-boxing/202106/why-would-killer-bury-bodies-in-the-yard-0
25) Article: Serial Murders Spatial Decisions: Factors that influence Crime location Choice
26) Article- Body Disposal: Spatial & Temporal Characteristics in Korean Homicide
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