BODY Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

Anyone that's read my memoir, Blood Beneath My Feet, Journey of a Southern Death Investigator,

you might remember the name Pearl. Pearl is my grandmother and she practically raised me. I miss her every single day of my life now.

There were two things that Pearl kept on hand that tied her back to her childhood and she was very proud of these items, kept them in the house.

One was her mother's butter churn. I'll never forget it. She wasn't one of these grandmother's that would say don't touch that, she would actually encourage you.

And I would ask her questions about it all the time. How did this work? Did you ever do it? Did you ever use it? And she told me about milk and cows and that sort of thing and churning butter.

But the other thing that she had was a scrub board. And many people don't know what a scrub board is, but a scrub board is something that you would actually do your laundry on. You would wash the laundry.

And then you'd boil it many times and then you'd scrub it out with a bar soap.

And that bar soap was not something you went down to a supermarket because where my grandmother lived there were no supermarkets where she grew up. As a matter of fact, she still remembers the night to the day she dots you remember the night

that war war one ended because the men rode up and down the streets of their little village on horses, firing pistols in the air to celebrate the end of the war.

And it was a simpler time, but they had to make their own soap. And they made their own soap by using L-Y-E.

The case that we're going to discuss today involves lie, this chemical substance, and it might be one of the most horrific ways that I have covered regarding the death of someone, the long languishing death of a man who had what appears to be lie applied to his body.

And once he lingered before we finally died, today we're going to talk about the homicide allegedly committed at the hands of a man's daughter.

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

The day back when my grandmother would talk about having to produce lie soap in their little village that they lived in in Backwoods, North Louisiana, where by the way, there were no improved roads where she lived.

It was essentially very few people had cars. They still used wagons, that sort of thing. Even into her teen years there was nothing for them to see that horses up and down the streets.

They didn't get electricity until the 30s. There were really no stores to go to to buy soap as we think of it today. They would have to produce this at home.

And there's a very specific formula. But you know, I even remember as a small child, my grandmother talking about how dangerous lie soap was and the production of lie soap.

And she had even mentioned that her mother had gotten burned a couple of times by making lie soap. And so it has always kind of hung in the back of my mind while people would choose to use the substance, but it was highly effective.

Matter of fact, it's been stated by many people that there was no kind of clean like the clean you would have on clothing that had undergone treatment with lie lie soap in order to get rid of stains and freshen things up. And that's where things but very powerful substance.

We're talking about Megan Joyce Emirates. She's 18 at the time. Her 64 year old dad Conrad Emirates as mentioned that lie soap and you broke it down as to making lying talking about how strong it is. There's no clean like you get clean from lie. And I had the same stories from my mother and grandmother as well.

In looking this up found out that a lie powder is often used in drain cleaner. So we might even have this in our home right now.

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