MAYHEM IN THE MORGUE | Neighbors
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🗓️ 18 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
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Content Warning: This episode discusses the death of an individual. If you’re sensitive tothis topic, this episode may not be for you.
Proximity has a way of revealing character, especially when the walls are thin, and patience runs thinner. In this episode of Mayhem in the Morgue, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kendall Crowns reflects on neighbors whose actions left an enduring impression. From a disruptive medical school neighbor whose behavior eroded routine and focus to a volatile homeowner whose actions escalated into gunfire and a contested death investigation, Dr. Crowns traces how proximity can transform daily life.
Highlights
• (0:00) Welcome to Mayhem in the Morgue with Dr. Kendall Crowns
• (0:45) Medical school housing and the quiet routine that made it work
• (2:15) A new upstairs neighbor and the slow collapse of routine and focus
• (4:45) Noise confrontation and the limits of courtesy
• (6:00) Retaliation by anonymous landline calls
• (10:15) Finals arrive and behaviors spiral
• (13:30) Years later, a new home brings a new kind of conflict
• (16:00) A routine afternoon in the backyard turns violent
• (18:00) Law enforcement responds, but the behavior continues
• (22:30) A familiar face arrives in the morgue
• (25:00) Gunshot wound analysis and suicide determination
About the Host: Dr. Kendall Crowns
Dr. Crowns is the Chief Medical Examiner for Travis County, Texas, and a nationally recognized forensic pathologist. He las led death investigations in Travis County, Fort Worth, Chicago, and Kansas. Over his career, he has performed thousands of autopsies and testified in court hundreds of times as an expert witness. A frequent contributor to Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, Dr. Crowns brings unparalleled insight into the strange, grisly, and sometimes absurd realities of forensic pathology.
About the Show
Mayhem in the Morgue takes listeners inside the bloody, bizarre, and often unbelievable world of forensic pathology. Hosted by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kendall Crowns, each episode delivers real-life cases from the morgue, the crime scene, and the courtroom. Expect gallows humor, hard truths, and unforgettable investigations.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | Once again, this episode has discussions of deaths of individuals. |
| 0:10.1 | If this sort of thing upsets you, this is again, not the episode for you. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to Mayhem in the Morning with your host, Dr. Kendall Crowns. |
| 0:27.2 | Today's episode, Neighbors. |
| 0:30.9 | Neighbors, unless you own a private island, you can't escape them. |
| 0:35.6 | Some are good, some are bad, and some you never know. But the really bad ones are the ones you really remember. |
| 0:42.2 | Today, I'm going to talk about a couple of problematic neighbors that I have had over the years. |
| 0:48.0 | When I was in medical school, I lived in an apartment complex on Rainbow Boulevard in Kansas City, Kansas. |
| 0:55.0 | It was near some train tracks and a highway. |
| 0:58.4 | The apartments were small, reasonably priced, and were a few blocks away from the school. |
| 1:03.7 | And most of the people who lived there were actually medical students. |
| 1:07.2 | I walked from these apartments every day to go to class, and they were incredibly convenient. |
| 1:13.5 | I can still remember my apartment number. It was 514. It was in the back corner of one section. |
| 1:19.9 | I shared a wall with one person, and I had a neighbor across from me and one above me. |
| 1:25.1 | Behind my apartment was a tree-covered hill that blocked out the sun, |
| 1:28.7 | so that wasn't really a neighbor unless you count the feral cats and raccoons. In the years that I |
| 1:35.1 | lived there, my neighbor across from me was non-existent. I saw her only once. She too was a medical |
| 1:41.8 | student, but a little further along than me. She was a great neighbor. Never there, kept to herself. When she was there, she was always quiet. During my first semester of school, my upstairs neighbor was also very quiet. He was in his final year of school, and he was never there as well, and I never heard him, except maybe once or |
| 2:02.3 | twice. And because my apartment was so quiet, I studied there a lot. It was convenient. I could get |
| 2:08.9 | snacks, I could nap, and occasionally watch TV, and I developed quite a routine. I went home |
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