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Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.

It's an interesting thing, the human skeleton.

Did you know that every stage of life that we go through is kind of marked by our physical support

system, if you will, our anatomical support system, our framework, that framework that our

organs rest within and that our skin stretches over.

It marks time for us.

It is a, it gives off developmental signals.

It talks about disease.

And I say talk as if you can have a conversation with it.

But if you read it right, you can learn a lot about people through their skeletons.

And in my world, in the world of medical legal death investigation, sometimes skeletal remains are all that we have to tell the tale.

I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags.

Brother Dave, I've been excited about doing this episode with you because I've got to make a confession right here, right now,

and tell you this, this dirty, dark little secret about myself.

I am at my heart a amateur, frustrated forensic anthropologist. I've always worked with forensic anthropologist. I've

been in their worlds. I've been in their labs. I've been in the field with them. Slapping

mosquitoes and fending off snakes, yes.

Been in swampy waters.

I've been in rugged terrain.

But I have always been enamored of forensic anthropologists.

And every opportunity that I have, I've always welcomed that moment when I can kind of sit at their feet and learn.

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