Dustin Kjersem: Dead by Bear?

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A Montana man, Dustin Kjersem, sets off on a camping trip. When he doesn't meet up with his friend at an appointed time and location the friend goes looking for him. When the friend makes it to Dustin, he calls 911 and reports his friend is dead from a Bear Attack! Joseph Scott Morgan explains how experts determine the shocking attack that caused the death of Dustin Kjersem was not done by a bear, it was someone swinging some type of weapon in a "chopping" motion.

Transcript Highlights
00:20.21 Introduction

02:00.71 Savage Death

04:56.01 Joe talking about Bear story

09:38.49 Victim is a "Man's Man"

15:01.06 The "Finder" and the "victim" both experienced
No sign of bear activity

19:48.73 Injuries so shocking it must be a Bear Attack

25:13.58 A Bear would tear down tent in an attack

30:12.97 A Bear is constantly looking for food

34:27.69 Weapon like a hatchet

39:45.60 Expect fractured, fragmented bone

43:22.39 Chopping motion would cause blood spatter

47:25.54 Conclusion - not a bear attack

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0:00.0	Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:04.0	There are two places in the U.S. that I want to visit and not just visit, I want to stay, I want to stay for a couple of weeks and just kind of soak things in and
0:17.4	To this point in my life. I've never been able to the first one is Maine. I've always wouldn't't go to main I've always wanted to see it
0:25.0	To see if it is in fact as beautiful as I've imagined it to be the rocky shoreline, you know, the evergreen forests that are there.
0:37.0	The isolation, which sometimes is a good thing.
0:41.0	The other place for me though is Montana.
0:47.9	When I hear Montana and what people say about it, and the fact that the place actually has the title Big Sky. I've always wanted to go there
1:01.7	and I wanted to see it at night to see if everything is true.
1:07.0	That the clarity that you have when you look up into the sky and you can see the beautiful stars.
1:18.0	But you know, Montana still to this day is a rugged and a dangerous place.
1:26.0	Today we're going to talk about a case involving a fellow who at first glance apparently met his end at the hand of something that was rather savage up there.
1:47.0	I don't mean the wildlife.
1:51.1	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.
1:57.7	My buddy Dave Max here with me, Dave, I gotta tell you,
2:01.2	you know, you know that Kim and I, before we came to Jacksonville, Alabama,
2:07.9	we were up in Delonaga, Georgia, which was up in the Blue Ridge, up in the northern part. I taught it at a university up there and
2:16.8	was up there for about a decade and we had a little cabin that we lived in. It was perched on the side of a hill and I guess I was probably
2:27.0	8 miles away from the campus. You get 8 miles away from anywhere in Delonka, Georgia, and you're out.
2:36.4	I mean, you're out.
2:37.3	It doesn't take that long.
2:38.6	And the cool thing about this place
2:41.6	was that adjacent to our property, our neighbor owned
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