From The Black Dahlia to Ed Gein, The Five of Dismemberment!
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Part one of a two part episode covering dismemberment. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about the Black Dahlia case that is back in the headlines again, as well as Ed Gein, and other dismemberment killers we have covered. Imagine opening your garbage can to bring it back up the driveway empty, but it is too heavy, open the door and see a foot! One of the many cases covered in this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan.
Transcribe Highlights
00:01.14 Introduction - Dismemberment
04:20.66 The Black Dahlia case
08:32.33 Margins very neat, cut around midline
14:16.00 Books written by children of "killers"
18:55.24 Defensive Dismemberment
24:49.40 Trying to put distance between suspect and victim
30:15.74 What was the point of the Halderson dismemberment
35:15.67 Victim killed in bedroom
40:07.05 Opening garbage bin and seeing a foot
45:06.71 Schabusiness - Charged with Third Degree sexual abuse
47:43.87 Conclusion part one.....
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Body facts with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm not by any means the brightest guy in the world. |
| 0:14.6 | I think that a lot of it, any knowledge that I have that I've been blessed with comes from repetition and being around it |
| 0:23.2 | what I do you know for so long you know you just kind of absorb it after a while it doesn't mean |
| 0:29.8 | that you're that you're intuitively in makes sense there intuitively intelligent It just means that you can absorb information. |
| 0:40.5 | And my area is very specific, okay, in-death investigation. And granted, there are all kinds of |
| 0:48.4 | subcategories within death investigation. But for me, it always has been the best way to learn things is to compartmentalize |
| 0:58.8 | them. And I picked them up. I was a big advocate when I was an undergraduate in college of |
| 1:02.8 | using index cards to run through before I would do testing and that sort of thing. I love that |
| 1:09.2 | because it really made me learn the information. |
| 1:12.7 | But, you know, that kind of breaking down of things, lending itself to absorption of knowledge, |
| 1:24.7 | it's certainly a way that we work in the morgue we don't just essentially do all of our dissections |
| 1:32.1 | at one time we take it piece by piece and learning from each individual element of the human body what we can to try to arrive at a cause and ultimately a manner of death. |
| 1:52.6 | But, you know, there are people out there, and we've talked about them on the show, who do their own compartmentalizing of human remains. They break them down into various |
| 2:06.9 | elements and also for various reasons, which we're going to discuss today. Today we're going |
| 2:14.4 | to talk about the five, the five types of dismemberment that we come across |
| 2:22.3 | in the field, in forensic science, in medical legal death investigation. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, |
| 2:31.3 | and this is body bags. |
| 2:36.4 | And Dave, you know you can verify this. |
| 2:40.4 | I had already mentioned to you that I wanted to do this going into the end of the year. |
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