Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.

The Mayo Clinic.

You hear that name, and the first thing that comes to mind for many of us is research.

For those of us that have family members that have experienced seemingly insurmountable odds when it comes to diseases, you see them as a bit of a salvation because they have turned lives around.

They have given hope where hope did not previously exist, at least in the sense of extending

someone's life.

Today, though, we're going to talk about a young woman who was an employee of the Mayo Clinic,

who died tragically, and her life ended as she was in the midst of pursuing a graduate degree

in one of my favorite areas of study, which is public health. She didn't get to see the end,

the success of that great academic achievement.

Instead, her death came about at the hands of someone who at one time she trusted, and then

that individual took her and discarded her as if she meant nothing.

I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags. You know, Dave, in medical legal death investigation, a big part of our job is processing

processing information, not just for the courts, not just for police, but also for public health.

We spend arguably, I could say that we, in my world, we actually spend as much time

gleaning data relative to end-of-life circumstances as we do studying homicides and trauma and that sort of thing,

you know, because most of the deaths that you handle at a corner of medical examiner's

offices are not traumatically related. They're certainly not all homicides. The lion's share of

of deaths are natural. And so having worked in Atlanta for over a decade,

the CDC is actually in Atlanta. It's technically, you know, in DeKal Cab County, but it's immediately adjacent to Atlanta.

So we would have their personnel that would come over and grab data from us pretty regularly.

We would see them come in and out and we had a really good working relationship with them.

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