Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: A Deserted Desert Discovery - The Homicide of Dr. Thomas Burchard

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🗓️ 25 December 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On March 7, 2019 a man is driving down the road with his children in Las Vegas Valley when they notice a car with a rock thrown through its window. They call the police, and upon further inspection, a body is found in the trunk of the car with blood everywhere. The man is identified to be Dr. Thomas Burchard, a beloved child psychiatrist from Salinas, California.

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the blood patterns, the evidence found inside the car, how many pieces of evidence are gathered from a crime scene, where Dr. Burchard was in his final days, and more.

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Show Notes:

0:00 - Intro

2:25 - Background and overview of the case

5:12 - Blood patterns

7:15 - Determining the cause of death from blood patterns

12:10 - Gloves found inside the car

16:15 - Arson investigation

18:30 - How many pieces of evidence can be generated from a crime scene?

21:40 - The state the body is found in

25:40 - Tampering with the crime scene

27:30 - How did investigators figure out the victim had been beaten?

33:28 - Discovering where Dr. Burchard was during his final 3 days of life

37:00 - Investigators start to piece together the evidence

39:12 - Transfers of blood, swears, and wipes

42:38 - Wrap up

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
0:09.1	experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on
0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,
0:25.2	the Apple Podcast app or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.
0:29.8	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan. I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.
0:34.8	The world that I inhabited gave me insight into things that most of the general public
0:39.6	can't even begin to imagine, always having to view the app normal in the context of the normal.
0:45.7	To make them make sense if you will, when all is said and done, I was the voice of the dead.
0:51.5	Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan on the I Heart Radio app,
0:55.9	Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:08.4	Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan.
1:17.0	I've had the opportunity to travel quite a bit across this country and one of the most striking
1:27.2	locations geographically at least is in my opinion is the desert southwest of the United States.
1:34.4	Being from the southeast, I'm used to seeing farmland and rolling hills and green everywhere,
1:41.8	not out there. Sometimes you can get on one of those highways and it just looks like it goes
1:46.8	on and on forever and you kind of realize how small you are. It's kind of like when you go to the
1:51.9	ocean for the first time when you're a kid, you see the vastness of it. But there is a beauty to it,
1:59.0	but not too many people stop along the roadway. There's not many establishments out in some of
2:04.6	those locations to stop it. But can you imagine to land down the road, you got your kids in the car
2:13.6	with you. Maybe you're singing a song with them maybe you're playing a game or maybe you're telling
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