Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: Frozen in Time, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
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🗓️ 21 August 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On February 14, 2018, a 19-year-old named Nikolas Cruz opens fire on students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, murdering 17 people and injuring 17 more. It is the deadliest high school shooting in United States history, surpassing even the Columbine shooting, in 1999, which ended with 15 people dead. Nikolas Cruz arrives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School via an Uber, constructs his firearm, and then begins his assault on his former classmates.
In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the details of the shooting, the weapon used in the attack, how the crime scene remains untouched after all these years, the reasons behind preserving the high school in this way, and the significance of the date of the shooting.
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Show Notes:
0:00 - Intro
0:45 - Joseph Scott and Jackie discuss the details of the shooting itself
7:45 - Did Cruz pull the fire alarm or could it have been triggered by smoke from the gun?
9:23 - Explanation of the layout of the building, crime scene, and how investigators would go about analyzing it
12:23 - The evolution of crime scene investigations
14:56 - The duration of the shooting and how hurricane proof glass ended up saving lives
19:01 - Nikolas Cruz’s background and how he blended in with students to escape the scene
20:29 - Cruz’s arrest and recovery of the weapon
21:30 - Joe talks about the weapon used in the attack
22:51 - The fear that teachers and students experienced seeing and hearing the gunshots
24:44 - Joe explains the Big Black Gun Theory
27:18 - Joe and Jackie discuss the crime scene remaining untouched since the shooting
28:50 - As evidence is collected, it’s sealed - how do you seal an entire building?
31:05 - Why would you want to leave a crime scene untouched for this long?
33:14 - Joe talks about the importance of chain of custody in forensics
35:34 - The reasons for preserving the high school in its condition
39:22 - Joe talks about the significance of this occurring on Valentine’s Day
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| 0:49.2 | Most people think about doing the school well they think of it as kind of a safe |
| 0:54.0 | haven. |
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| 1:00.0 | It's a place where you go hopefully to develop and learn to begin to prepare yourself for |
| 1:06.6 | the world outside of that environment. |
| 1:11.2 | Back on Valentine's Day 2018 at Marjorie Stoeman Douglas High School it became a killing |
| 1:20.2 | ground. |
| 1:21.2 | Today we're going to talk about a place frozen in time. |
| 1:26.9 | The scene of a mass murder. |
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