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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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What's in a name? For Joseph Scott Morgan, it is very special, a family history, a personal story, and a challenge to make life a little less ordinary. In this very special episode of "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan", Joe talks about the man he is named after as well as a family history that is very deep, very dark, and very scary, but in the end, a life filled with unicorns, daffodils, and rainbows. The story begins with his namesake, his uncle, Joseph F. Killian (1903-1951)
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00:00.00 Introduction
03:33.98 Othram determined to identify everyone
08:33.43 Joseph Killian, murdered
13:09.70 A daylight execution, 4 shots fired
19:26.89 Joseph, named after "uncle"
25:32.28 Dad moves Mom and Joe to Georgia, and leaves
30:02.29 Landed back in New Orleans, going to school
35:41.35 Autopsy on bodies so fresh, organs still warm
40:01.72 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:09.9 | Many people think about the dead, and one of the names that is probably most prominent among the dead is, or are the terms John Doe and Jane Doe. |
| 0:26.5 | What does that mean? |
| 0:28.0 | Well, as an old death investigator, it means to me that the person, at least when we began |
| 0:36.2 | to work on the case, didn't have a specific identity. |
| 0:40.3 | But in our hearts, we know that that person that lay before us without a driver's license, |
| 0:49.3 | without a family, maybe without dental records, was held in the arms of a mother at some point in time. |
| 0:57.0 | It was loved and caressed, but for that instant, when we in the medical legal profession |
| 1:04.0 | enter onto the stage, they're nameless. |
| 1:09.0 | But for me, it holds a special meeting. |
| 1:11.6 | Coming to you live from Denver, Crime Con, 2025. |
| 1:20.6 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is body bags. |
| 1:47.4 | I got to do a shout out real quick to the best producer and best friend that I would say as an adult I have ever had, other than my wife Kimmy. |
| 1:48.1 | All right. |
| 1:51.4 | When you sit across a mic from somebody for a long, long time now, and we're heading toward, |
| 1:58.6 | I don't know, 450 episodes, and we've known each other prior to that. |
| 2:02.7 | You get to learn a lot about a person. |
| 2:04.6 | And so I'm very grateful to Dave Mack. |
| 2:07.8 | Dave Mack, my friend. |
| 2:09.2 | So give it up for Dave. |
| 2:14.9 | And plus, I want you to give it up to us because we're at the mercy of Nancy Grace. |
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