Dead in a Bathtub: Warm Water, Cold Body - Suicide or Murder

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🗓️ 31 March 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Suicide or Murder? Kendy Howard is found in a bathtub full of water with a gunshot wound to the head. His body is cold, but the water in the tub is warm! Red Flag number one. On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will take a look at all of the "Red Flags" present in the reported suicide of Kendy Howard. Why is there so little blood in the water? Why is her ex-trooper husband arrested at the airport? The biggest question of all, is the death of Kendy Howard a Suicide or Murder?

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Transcript Highlights

00:00:27 Joe talks about admiration for Troopers

00:03:03 Discussion of law enforcement

00:05:59 Discussion of “Red Flags”

00:08:14 Talk about the water is warm, body is cold

00:12:23 Investigation of suicide/murder

00:16:33 Discussion of damage caused by gunshot in mouth

00:17:49 Talk about direction of bullet

00:21:26 Comparing murder of Travis Alexander

00:25:53 Defining different types of asphyxiation

00:30:08 Talk about injuries “frozen in time”

00:35:33 Discussion of how much blood would be expected

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. Even to this day at this stage of my life, I'm fascinated by one group.
0:19.0	Even to this day at this stage of my life,
0:22.0	I'm fascinated by one group of law enforcement people and those
0:27.6	are state troopers or state police depending upon the jurisdiction you're in.
0:34.8	And one of the reasons, I think it's the fact that I've got this little bitty boy
0:40.6	that never grew up still within me and I love seeing the uniforms that some of these state
0:49.3	troopers wear because they're really cool.
0:51.8	There's a couple of them that come to mind. Let's see, Rhode Island has got these
0:57.6	fantastic looking uniforms. State of New York, really cool. They've got kind of these slouch hats that they wear.
1:05.0	I've always been a fan of how these things are configured, what the purpose is, because you know know you look at them now and it it
1:14.8	doesn't necessarily look like the most efficient way to clothe somebody but you have
1:20.9	to understand state troopers and state police that are out there running the roads and working cases out there.
1:27.0	They're different type of law enforcement. They're there to really really set the standard for representing the law enforcement of that state.
1:39.0	You know, when they, you hear those shoes clicking down the roadway, approaching your car.
1:44.5	There's a certain level of intimidation to it and they take
1:48.4	they take their appearance very
1:50.7	very seriously like those smokey the Bear hats that they wear.
1:55.0	It's meant to intimidate.
1:57.0	They almost look like Marine Corps DIs and some of them behave that way.
2:01.0	But you know, even when someone is selected for law enforcement
2:07.6	you never know what you're actually going to get because people on paper,
2:14.0	people during training, look really, really good sometimes.
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