Blunt Force Trauma Deep Dive And The Trials of Karen Read

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Blunt Force Trauma and the trial of Karen Read in the death of her boyfriend, police officer John O'Keefe. Read was accused of hitting O'Keefe with her SUV in 2022 and leaving him to die in blizzard like conditions. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and how Blunt Force Trauma plays a critical part in the death of O'Keefe. Joe Scott also talks about a case involving the death of a woman confined to a wheelchair and requiring 24 hour care. At first glance her death seemed natural due to her medical conditions, but upon examination determined to be a homicide due to blunt for trauma. The woman had over 160 contusions on her body caused by a dryer belt.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.03 Introduction - Blunt Force Trauma

04:21.19 Taking a hit from Jesse Tuggle

05:04.72 Motor Vehicle accidents, number one cause of blunt force trauma deaths in USA

10:11.73 Bleeding out due to blunt force trauma

15:45.67 Brain injuries

20:01.76 Abrasions caused by blunt force

25:17.35 Describing victim with 167 contusions

30:05.95 Looking for item that caused injury

35:06.97 O'Keefe injuries, Karen Read case

40:13.55 "Grading" Bruises - age of bruise

45:00.87 Bruise created by a bat

49:46.82 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:10.2	Many years ago, when I was in high school, played football.
0:17.3	I was never a great football player, but I was like second tier, I guess. I had an opportunity to attend Service Academy, two of them, Naval Academy and West Point. VMI, they'd reached out to me. And Citadel.
0:38.4	I was a linebacker.
0:40.3	I was never, like, you know, top tier.
0:44.0	But I didn't mind getting hit.
0:47.3	And that's what happens when you play football.
0:50.1	It's like going through a car accident every single day that you go to practice.
0:56.4	Practice for me was always worse than games.
1:00.1	But you know, my football career came to an end as a result of a car accident that I was in.
1:08.7	And I ran a red light and I had this beautiful 1968 Mustang
1:15.0	that had been restored. Three speed transmission. Love that car. And I was actually on a way to a
1:22.9	key club meeting in high school. And the guy blew the light. He was driving a Ford pickup truck,
1:29.7	and he had five people in the front seat on a bench seat in this thing. And hits me in the
1:36.4	front right quarter panel of my car. I had the right away at Four Lane Street. I was going
1:41.5	green. He blew the light, hit hit me and I wound up being in
1:45.1	a hospital for about a month lost lost the sensation of the left side of my body I hurt my C5
1:50.7	c4 and eventually through traction those sorts of things they relieved that problem but I've
1:58.6	never completely recovered from that my neck still still cracks, it still hurts. And my
2:04.2	pride hurts too, because I always think about what if, you know? Well, what I went through
2:10.7	that day is something that I'm sure that many of you guys have gone through throughout your
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