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Scotty Morrow (Episode 202)

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On December 29, 1994, Scotty Morrow forced his way into Barbara Ann Young’s house and shot three women.

1. Black True Crime episode 202 centers on Scotty Garnell Morrow and the December 29, 1994 killings of Barbara Ann Young, Tanya Rochelle Woods, and Latoya Horn. 2. Kayla and Nikki host the show, and their back-and-forth gives the episode its conversational framing while they unpack Scotty Morrow’s life and crimes. 3. The episode asks how Scotty Morrow went from a violent childhood in the New York–New Jersey area to a murder case in Barbara Ann Young’s home. 4. Scotty was born in 1967 and, by the hosts’ account, grew up around an abusive father who beat his mother in front of the children. 5. The transcript says Scotty had school trouble, blackouts, and psychological testing as a child. 6. The hosts say Scotty’s family described repeated physical and emotional abuse at home, and they connect that background to his later violence. 7. Scotty also tells the show that he started having sex at age 16 and had about 30 women by his early 30s. 8. He says that in 1992, when he was 25, he was “picked up with a transvestite,” which the hosts discuss as part of his sexual history. 9. The episode notes that Scotty also mentioned his own son being molested, then ties that detail to later sentencing context. 10. The central relationship starts in June 1994, when Scotty meets Barbara Ann Young and they begin dating. 11. Court records in the episode say Scotty hit Barbara Ann on December 6, then abducted her three days later, beat her, and raped her twice. 12. Barbara Ann later tells a neighbor that Scotty was going to kill her and that he had a gun. 13. On December 29, 1994 at 9:52 a.m., Scotty calls Barbara Ann, confirms she is home, and then forces his way inside. 14. Barbara Ann is in the kitchen with Tanya Rochelle Woods and Latoya Horn, and her two young children, Christopher and Devante, are also in the house. 15. Scotty pulls a 9-millimeter pistol from his waist and shoots Tanya in the abdomen and Latoya in the arm. 16. Barbara Ann runs toward the bedroom, but Scotty traps her there, beats her, and later shoots her in the head. 17. The episode says Tanya’s spinal cord was severed, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down before Scotty returned and shot her again at close range. 18. Latoya survives the scene with a shattered palate, deafness in one ear, and nerve damage in her arm, while Christopher tells officers who killed his mother and her friend. 19. The episode stays in a blunt, argumentative true-crime style, with the hosts interrupting each other, reacting loudly, and pausing for jokes before returning to the facts. 20. Listeners who want a violent 1990s domestic murder case with courtroom details will likely stay with it, while listeners avoiding graphic abuse and shooting testimony may skip it.

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Court records, evidence, and medical findings keep the violence from softening into abstraction.

Scotty's attack on Barbara Ann, Tanya, and Latoya Horn is presented through court records, evidence, and medical examiner findings, which gives the episode a hard factual spine.

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If court records, medical examiner detail, and a brutal sequence of events hold you, press play.

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