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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Introducing: Mayhem in the Morgue

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

It’s chaos, blood, and body parts. Today Dr. Kendall Crowns joins Nancy Grace to discuss his 35-year-career and the launch of his new podcast "Mayhem in the Morgue."  

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Each week Dr. Crowns will discuss stories and cases from his over 35-year journey with death, from the tornado alley of Kansas, to the bloody Memphis shoreline of the muddy Mississippi River, to the ultra-violence of Chicago, and finally, the methamphetamine fueled insanity of Texas.

Encompassing his days as an autopsy tech, medical student, resident/fellow, and finally as a medical examiner, his stories range from humorous to horrifying and cover a wide variety of topics from week to week. You will never know what you’ll hear, will it be courtroom drama, decapitations, gangland shootings, feet with no body, or chihuahuas feasting on the flesh of decomposing bodies? The cases will never end.

It will always be different, and there is never a dull moment. Tune in each week and climb aboard, your nightmares will never be the same.


Mayhem in the Morgue takes listeners deep into the bloody, bizarre, and often unbelievable
realities of forensic pathology. Each week, Dr. Crowns shares gritty stories from the morgue, the
crime scene, and the courtroom. Expect gallows humor, hard truths, and cases that range from
unsettling to unforgettable — think decomposing feet with no bodies, courtroom bombshells,
and the kinds of deaths that even seasoned pathologists can’t quite explain.
If you think you’ve heard it all… you haven’t.

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0:00.0

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

0:04.0

Joining me right now is a longtime colleague and, dare I say, friend.

0:12.0

Dr. Kendall Crowns. You know him well, and he is launching an incredible podcast.

0:20.0

He is joined by his all-star panel behind him. He always has a

0:25.7

full-blown skeleton and a skull. You know, that doesn't come along every day, a guy that travels

0:32.7

with a skeleton and a skull. Dr. Kendall Crowns is always the star of the show. Always. I can listen to him

0:41.7

for hours, and I have. Dr. Kendall Crowns is a renowned medical examiner, typically joining us

0:50.5

out of Tarrant County, that's Fort Worth, as I like to say, never a lack of business

0:54.7

in the morgue in Fort Worth. He is an esteemed lecturer at the Burnett School of Medicine at

1:02.1

TCU, and he is launching mayhem in the morgue. Now, you may think that medical examiners are dry as dust. Not true. When I listened to his first

1:20.8

episode of mayhem in the morgue, it made me laugh. It made me laugh.

1:29.1

It made me sad.

1:35.0

But most of all, it made me curious, very curious.

1:38.2

Dr. Kendall Crowns, thank you for being with us.

1:38.6

Of course.

1:39.6

Thank you, Nancy.

1:41.3

Tell me how you got in the business.

1:46.0

So how I got interested in forensic pathology and ultimately became a medical examiner is my dad was a criminologist.

1:48.4

And so when I grew up, it wasn't, we heard the stories like Dr. Seuss and things of that

1:53.8

nature.

1:54.4

We actually heard about helter-skelter and crime scenes and things of that nature.

1:58.8

One of the books I had as a kid that I absolutely loved

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