Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: An Unthinkable Execution - The America Thayer Case
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🗓️ 9 July 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Body Bags, hosts Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the tragic saga of America Thayer, a domestic violence victim from Minnesota, whose horrific demise parallels historical methods of capital punishment. They explore the gruesome details of her death, shedding light on a disturbing trend of bystander apathy in today's digital world, the intricate mysteries of the crime scene, the decoding of brutal injury patterns inflicted by seemingly innocuous farming tools, and the critical role that evidence preservation plays in court.
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Time-codes:
00:00: Introduction.
00:35: King Charles I.
01:35: Decapitation as a homicide method.
02:35: Joe’s experiences with complex cases involving dismemberments.
04:56: America Thayer's abusive relationship.
07:45: Jo reveals the shocking public execution details of America Thayer, drawing historical parallels.
10:00: Afternoon timing of the crime and its filming by bystanders.
13:42: Machete's typical uses, design, and historical agricultural significance.
15:30: How the murder and decapitation could have occurred within a car's confined space.
18:35: The systematic procedure of crime scene documentation.
19:20: The gruesome crime scene specifics inside America Thayer's car.
23:10: Was America Thayer dead before decapitation?
24:20: Explanation of the morgue process: including body cleaning and external injury identification.
26:45: The role of autopsy photographs in court proceedings.
27:15: America Thayer’s cause of death.
31:50: National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 or visit thehotline.org.
32:20: Outro of the episode.
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| 0:00.0 | BODY Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan. |
| 0:20.3 | My wife says I've got a lot of useless information in my brain and she doesn't necessarily say |
| 0:25.6 | that in a disparaging manner, particularly it comes in handy when we go to do trivia and |
| 0:32.4 | there's something I enjoy and I love to read and particularly I love to read about history. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm thinking we have just had coronation or the Brit's have as I'm laying the sound down |
| 0:43.5 | right now and I believe it's King Charles III if I'm not mistaken and here's the thing about it. |
| 0:52.4 | There's another King of England that I found for far more fascinating. It came along in a very |
| 0:58.3 | crucial time period when there was great turmoil and great Britain over religion. His name was |
| 1:07.1 | Charles I. I've been fascinated by him because he didn't seem like necessarily a brutal dictator |
| 1:14.8 | and he didn't care anything but he died very brutally. He was actually publicly executed and when |
| 1:21.0 | he was executed he died as a result of an executioner wielding a large bladed instrument over his head |
| 1:30.7 | at hung in the air for a moment and it fell upon his neck and separated his head from his shoulders. |
| 1:38.9 | Today on Body Bags I'm actually going to chat about a cause of death that to this point I have |
| 1:46.4 | yet to address and that is homicide by means of decapitation. Today we're going to talk about the |
| 1:55.4 | homicide of America's Thayer out of Minnesota. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags. |
| 2:08.4 | My buddy Dave Maxe joining me right now Dave how you doing man? So far so good. Little curious as |
| 2:16.1 | to why we're going to do this story though. Oh yeah what's that? Well all right there's a whole lot |
| 2:20.6 | to it and when I say there's a whole lot to it there's a lot of background but when you come |
| 2:26.4 | right down to the Body Bags portion of it I'm asking this because I don't know Joe but is this one |
| 2:31.4 | where you have to use two bags and I'm not being funny. Yeah no people have asked me that. Okay I've |
| 2:36.1 | had cases generally involving blast trauma airplane crashes every now and then a car crash where I've |
| 2:44.1 | had to use bags plural in order to facilitate collection of remains but most of the time those |
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