Crime scene staging

Alaina UrquhartCo-host of Morbid, autopsy technician and author of the Butcher novels

• Urquhart says investigators found blood had been soaked up from the floor and transferred to the bed to fake the attack's location.

  “Someone had soaked up the blood on the floor and plopped it onto the bed to make it look like the attack had happened there”

  Morbid: Haunted Roadtrip: West Virginia Edition! (Mar 30, 2026) · Listen from 22:48

• Urquhart says investigators determined Flippo's leg scratches were self-inflicted based on the direction of the cuts.

  “you can also see the direction where the scratches start and stop and if he's doing it from his angle it's clearly he's scratching his own legs”

  Morbid: Haunted Roadtrip: West Virginia Edition! (Mar 30, 2026) · Listen from 21:35

• Urquhart says the first deputy on scene found no forced entry and no footprints in the rain-softened mud besides the Flippos'.

  “there was absolutely no footprints anywhere around the cabin besides theirs and he said when he went into the cabin he was like there was no mud there was no water on the floor”

  Morbid: Haunted Roadtrip: West Virginia Edition! (Mar 30, 2026) · Listen from 13:01