27 YEARS on Death Row For A MURDER That NEVER HAPPENED: The Release of Jimmie Duncan!

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Wrongfully convicted of a crime that never occurred based on now discredited bite mark forensic pathology testimony from notorious "experts" Michael West and Steven Haynes.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case of Jimmie Duncan, a man convicted for a heinous crime that lands him on death row at Angola. Joe also breaks down the now debunked science of "bite mark" evidence and one of the men who used it to steal nearly 30 years of a man's life.

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00:00.15 Introduction: lead into gold

04:15.11 Jimmie Duncan on Death Row for 27 years

09:02.73 Duncan gave two statements at the time of Haley's death

13:45.43 Joe shares story of son being injured

19:18.94 Forensic dentists are amazing, this story is about "bite mark"

23:53.48 Bundy Bite mark in Florida case

28:42.33 Duncan was in Angola - horrible prison

33:42.26 What was the motivation of the doctors

38:37.56 The bite mark taken from the mold made from the accused teeth

42:51.45 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.7	Quality Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:09.8	I've always been fascinated by the idea of alchemy.
0:21.0	This goes back, you know, several centuries.
0:23.4	Not with me.
0:24.1	I'm not quite that old.
0:25.3	But it does go back in time to a period when people thought that they could take literal lead and transform it into gold.
0:41.5	You know, Isaac Newton was actually dabbling in alchemy for years and years.
0:50.3	It seems like a real shortcut, doesn't it?
0:52.3	That it has all of the answers.
0:55.1	It can kind of satiate that desire to be wealthy, to have something that no one else has,
1:04.2	to make you wealthy beyond your craziest dreams.
1:09.3	But you know, in forensic science,
1:12.1	we have a coin of the realm as well.
1:15.8	Our coin of the realm is not gold,
1:18.4	though it does help with funding.
1:21.0	What we have, though, is information.
1:23.7	And if we can glean information
1:25.3	that's going to point us to a perpetrator, all the better.
1:32.0	Today, we're going to talk about a man, a man who spent decades in one of the worst prisons in the United States because people for a long, long time, believed
1:48.7	that bite mark evidence was valid.
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