I'm Joseph Scott Morgan.

I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.

The first time I've ever made a death notification on you after that moment

that I was going to try to be as compassionate as I possibly could.

Because when families are rocked by death,

the only thing they really want are answers.

They ask how, where, it was my job as a death investigator to bring those answers.

Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, wherever you get your podcasts.

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I will never forget it.

I was a rookie prosecutor and befriended a rookie cop who was testifying you in front

of the grand jury a lot.

He was newly wed, just married.

He pulled over a guy in a traffic stop, a kid, 16 years old, 17, who gunned him down, shot

him in the face.

I remember it like it was yesterday walking down the district attorney's hallway and somebody

came and told me they shot Shapani.

That was killed in the line of duty today.

I've got a story for you you won't believe.

A cop, a good cop, get shot in the line of duty.

The perp gets arrested and then escapes jail.

If you can even believe that, years, this cop never gives up finding, trying to find the

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