For The Love of Money: The Death of Fasil Teklemariam

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Police arrive at the apartment of Fasil Teklemariam in Washington DC for a call of an unconscious person. Police quickly note that Fasil is more than unconscious, he is dead. Multiple stab wounds, and it appears that one of his thumbs has been cut off. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will explain what happens when a thumb is severed from a hand, and can experts tell if it happened when the victim was alive or dead. Dave Mack will dig into the background of those involved and try to figure out who talked.

00:02.12 Introduction: "The Rule of Thumb"
02:51.25 Discuss removing thumb to rob victim
05:14.45 Discuss James Bond,"biometric" science
09:04.94 Talk about CCTV footage
14:20.13 Discussion of thumb removed from body
19:08.42 Discussion of what happens when everything dries up
22:33.29 Talk suspects stole key fob allowing access to the building
27:57.92 Discuss thumb came after trying to extract info
32:00.21 Discussion of shoe print left behind
36:46.63 Discussion of weapons used, did they use knives found in kitchen
36:49.34 Conclusion: they wanted his money, took his life

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0:00.0	Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:04.0	It's weird when we think about the origins of sayings that we have, you know, from over the years. And they kind of enter the Lex Con,
0:16.2	they stay with us, we, but we don't consider the origins of them. And one in particular that is used is the term rule of thumb.
0:28.0	And most people don't think about the origin of that.
0:31.0	Now, it's got a dubious origin at best, but when it comes down to it it's a
0:36.3	unit of measurement and no it has nothing to do with the size of a stick one can
0:41.7	beat their wife with. That's that's a fallacy that's been proven as
0:47.2	untrue it's actually a unit of measurement for construction that was devised back in the Middle Ages.
0:55.0	But today we're going to talk about not a rule, but we're going to talk about a thumb a thumb that was removed from a
1:10.0	man's hand his right hand in particular, in order to accomplish something that is
1:17.9	absolutely, positively horrific.
1:22.3	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body backs.
1:28.0	Dave, wow, this case kind of landed on us for a moment I had to go back and reread the
1:36.6	the first few lines actually the headline because the headline that I initially saw contained
1:46.0	the line that the victim in this case
1:52.0	his thumb had actually been removed.
1:56.0	And I guess one of the biggest questions is he did, obviously we would be covering on body back.
2:01.0	Well, there you go.
2:02.0	And as we covered it, I hope that he was dead when his thumb was removed.
2:06.0	Oh my God, this is horrible.
2:07.0	And I've got to ask you about that, Joe.
2:09.0	That's in my notes to ask you.
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