I'm Joseph Scott Morgan.

I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.

The first time I've ever made a death notification on you after that moment

that I was going to try to be as compassionate as I possibly could.

Because when families are rocked by death,

the only thing they really want are answers.

They ask how, where, it was my job as a death investigator to bring those answers.

Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, wherever you get your podcasts.

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Nadi just graduated from my school.

She was in her first year at Central Washington University.

She came home for Thanksgiving break.

Mandy left her home on the day after Thanksgiving in 1989.

She wanted to get in a run, was kind of in the late afternoon.

She had a daily route that she used to jog,

that took her down the road that her house was on, on Strand Road,

down to the Nook Sack River and back.

She went with their dog, Kyra, German Shepherd Dog.

It was an older dog, but it was very protective of Mandy.

I was panicked. The minute she didn't get home on time.

And then I was doubly panicked a few minutes later when the dog was there and she wasn't.

Any kind of missing person call is an 911 call.

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