SHOCKING Celeb Deaths By Autoerotic Asphyxia Plus Epstein Hanging, More...

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

AEA: Autoerotic Asphyxia - David Carradine gained fame on TV in the early 70s as Kung Fu. Michael Hutchence was the frontman for hitmaking rock group INXS. Both men died doing the same thing: Autoerotic Asphyxia. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss AEA as well as other public deaths by Asphyxia including the hanging of Jeffrey Epstein, suicide of Robin Williams, and a story about the death of a man accused of being a witch during the Salem Witch Trials and how he died of asphyxia by "pressing".

Transcript Highlights

00:02.49 Introduction

00:39.43 "Blood Beneath My Feet"

04:48.20 Asphyxia by hanging

10:00.77 Suffocation - positional asphyxia

15:06.68 Compression of the neck

19:39.06 Hanging of Lewis Payne

24:40.59 Execution by "pressing"

30:12.40 Killed by hanging in public

35:11.67 Suspension Hanging vs Supported Hanging

39:15.66 Auto-Erotic Asphyxia

45:20.99 Strangle to point of death, and stopping, to cause more terror in victim

50:42.24 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:10.0	If you've read my memoir, blood beneath my feet, there's a character, I say character,
0:18.5	real person.
0:20.2	My grandmother, Pearl, who features quite prominently
0:26.3	in blood. And because she did a lot of my raising, and still to this day, there's not a day
0:37.2	that goes by, I do not think about her.
0:39.3	And I literally mean that.
0:40.3	And I've got a photo of she and I upon my mantle.
0:45.3	But she had all of these kind of, I guess you'd call them euphemistic terms that are, I think they're kind of unique to the South,
0:55.7	and particularly to Southern women.
0:59.3	And she'd say all kinds of things, you know,
1:03.0	that you would get the drift of it.
1:06.3	You would understand it, but contextually, it seemed out of place. And one of her sayings that she would
1:14.5	always use, particularly in the Deep South, remember, you know, my family's from Louisiana,
1:21.8	we're Delta people. You know, it's always inseparably hot. You just learn to live with it.
1:28.3	But if she ever got too hot, and that was rare,
1:31.3	because she was used to heat, she'd always say,
1:35.3	I feel like I'm smothered to death.
1:38.3	Well, there's a lot to be taken away from that.
1:43.3	Smothering for most people, you know, means that your airway is being blocked and you can't breathe.
1:52.0	In South, it either means that you're really hot or you're about to cover something with gravy.
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