Testimony from Beyond the Grave: The Suspicious Death of Maria Muñoz

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

When a panicked husband calls 911 for help saying his wife has overdosed the first officer on the scene notices some pretty big red flags.

The forensics tell the story of what killed Maria Munoz, but Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will dig deeper to find out what really happened to a Texas mom with a penchant for writing in her journal, about everything.

Transcript Highlights

00:01:29 Talk about nurses, great investigators

00:03:21 Discussion of body cam

00:04:45 Talk about scene, shadows

00:05:31 Talk about what police expect based on 911 call

00:06:55 Discussion of relationship

00:08:37 Talk about surgery, different duties

00:10:20 Talk about steroid use

00:11:08 Talk about husband being suspicious

00:12:06 Discussion of red flags

00:13:45 Talk about husband pockets pill bottle

00:15:38 Talk about medicine bottle on scene

00:21:00 Talk about medical pro letting police officer take over cpr

00:22:44 Discussion of husband talking to police

00:24:59 Discussion of Police body cam

00:27:21 Talk about how to find needle hole in arm

00:29:24 Discussion of suspect

00:31:48 Talk about scenes involving drugs

00:34:07 Discussion of home dynamics

00:35:55 Discussion of medical careers

00:40:48 Talk about tox screen

00:43:52 Discussion of toxicology report

00:45:37 Talk about how drugs were used

00:48:18 Discussion about Maria diary entries

00:49:44 Diary and Toxicology gave jury no choice

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. By my calculation, I'd have to say that if you gave me a choice between a former homicide
0:27.5	detective or a registered nurse.
0:34.0	I would take the registered nurse
0:38.0	every day of the week and twice on Sunday
0:41.0	to hire them as an investigator for the medical examiner's office.
0:47.0	That is, if I was the one doing the hiring and this is why.
0:51.0	Nurses, I think, are natural investigators. Not to say that homicide detectives
1:00.8	are not good investigators, it's just that in my world, the world of
1:06.0	medical legal death investigation, our spectrum is a bit more broad than the typical homicide investigation that might occur out on the street.
1:19.7	And the reason that nurses are so good at what they do is that they have to
1:26.4	diagnose individuals based upon histories, based upon what their patient is telling them and also what they
1:37.9	observe, either in triage, maybe back in the emergency room, or maybe if they're up on a medsurge floor and they're taking a look at a patient.
1:47.0	Today we're going to talk about two nurses. One who was a nurse's, a nurse who was a nurse a nesticist and another that he was married to is a homicide victim. I'm
2:12.0	Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bag.
2:17.0	Today over the years I've spent a lot of time in hospitals working a matter of fact as as a college student I'd have to say
2:32.1	I was very blessed, fortunate to have the opportunity to work in a general hospital,
2:42.0	and this is why it prepared me to become the medical legal death
2:48.3	investigator that I wound up being and I think on many accounts I did a good job in my profession as a medical legal death investigator and it can all be tied back to those experiences I had in the hospital as a young man.
3:05.0	And the best instructors that I ever had, first off, here's how I listed.
3:11.0	The best classroom I've ever been in was the morgue. The best instructors
3:14.8	I ever had were nurses. And it's part of the world that they indwell in. And with today's case we've we're surrounded by
3:26.5	medical professionals in this case and also how people are treated and what to look for because some of these things can be very very subtle.
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