An Unnatural Affair: The Staged Suicide of Giselle Tapia-Salazar

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A Texas mother of 4 is found hanging from a dock with a rope around her neck in an apparent suicide. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will go behind the shocking story of an apparent suicide and Joe Scott will explain how a witness describing the woman’s body hanging from the dock tells him she didn’t kill herself; this is a murder!

01:38.72 Introduction: Suicide or Murder

05:20.55 Discussion of rigidity

09:06:44 Talk about boat life, living at marina

13:02.11 Discussion of arms hanging down

16:41.60 Talk about 30-year old mom, 4 children

19:31.74 Discussion of suicide

24:33.02 Discussion of woman’s arm points to different conclusion

28:06.63 Discussion of staging a suicide

32:14.44 Talk about girlfriend leaves, doesn’t come back

36:11.46 Discussion of post-mortem lividity in aquatic environment

39:18.91Discussion of flaccid

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0:00.0	Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:06.0	I was never a big fan of horror movies.
0:09.0	There are certain movies out there that I will watch.
0:12.0	You know, they use the term remote drop, I guess, that are in the horror
0:16.8	genre. But you know, being a death investigator, you see things relative to how the dead or portrayed, whether it be
0:29.4	true crime or in horror movies.
0:34.0	Some things they get right, most of the time they get wrong.
0:39.0	But aren't we so influenced as a society by terms, things that we think we are familiar with?
0:50.0	And it translates into the general public, even, you know, when it comes to someone like me that talks about death day in and day out.
1:02.0	There is no one size fits all when it comes to terms. They're varied. They can be
1:09.8	varied regionally. They can be varied by country or worldwide. But today we're going to talk a little bit
1:21.1	about Riker mortis. Some people call it Rigger Mortis, but we do know this. It sets in only after you're dead and is it possible for this change, this post-mortem change in the human body,
1:49.0	to point towards a perpetrator. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.
2:02.0	I suppose I could start this conversation off
2:06.0	Dave by saying potato potato potato potato potato, tomato tomato tomato,
2:10.7	tomato, but I to motto. But I'm going to shy away from that and just say, wow, I never really give much consideration to the way I pronounce things but I guess I kind of got
2:26.5	my ear slap back a little bit this week from an appearance that I made with using the term Riger mortis as opposed to Rigger mortis on a particular show that I was on and
2:40.4	It's funny people just assume that I guess the folks at at Fox or
2:46.0	Universal or Paramount or in these they they actually dictate how I'm supposed
2:52.1	to say things
2:53.7	as it applies to investigation of everything is a conspiracy
2:57.8	Joe you know this.
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