The Smell of Death, Part Two
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
After response to the Body Bags episode about decomposition called "The Smell Of Death", Joseph Scott Morgan realized he left our a couple things that are very important in the world of decomposition whether out in the field trying to solve a homicide, or in the cottage of a loved one who dies of old age in their favorite chair, bodies will decompose. And the rate of decomposition is dependent on many factors. Joseph Scott Morgan takes a close up look at decomposition and what it tells investigators who are looking for answers
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:23 Explaining skin slippage
00:05:27 Wearing skin like a glove
00:09:34 Examination of body on the scene
00:13:36 Preserving the body
00:18:39 Body decomposition inside a house
00:23:15 Landfill with everything breaking down
00:27:58 Body preserved when barely covered
00:31:24 Body preservation in frozen area ,
00:34:15 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:04.0 | Unlike notifying families, which I never got used to, |
| 0:09.0 | the last one was just as bad as the first one. |
| 0:12.0 | I can't say that about decomposition. It impacted me, it affected me, but I could I could explain it to myself. And not the key I think with anything in life if you're if you're capable of |
| 0:28.6 | Being able to rationalize it and say okay |
| 0:32.1 | This is what nature does to all of us it is those elements that |
| 0:38.1 | are left behind I think that the real piece to this that we have to hang on to and try to understand as |
| 0:48.7 | practitioners and people that are into true crime. |
| 0:54.7 | Are the practitioners that are working as cases? |
| 0:59.5 | Have they paid attention to detail, even in the most austere circumstances. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and |
| 1:09.1 | this is body backs on a timeline when it comes to decomposition Dave, you're you |
| 1:18.8 | really what we've discussed at this point you're really only at this earlier stage you know where we've got |
| 1:25.6 | you know we talked about blabs these pockets that appear on the skin we've got skin |
| 1:31.5 | sloughing that takes place it's skin slippage and sloughing, so the skin will slough off, but it's easily just kind of peeled away as well. |
| 1:40.8 | Let me ask you about that. You said when you were talking about slippage and you were actually talking to me one time about how you had to actually |
| 1:50.8 | to get fingerprints from an individual so you could identify them. |
| 1:56.0 | That you actually had to use that skin slippage to your advantage in trying to identify the person. |
| 2:03.0 | But how does that even have, how can you actually get so loose on the top layer there |
| 2:09.4 | that is so thin that you could actually utilize that in a way. |
| 2:13.6 | Yeah, a lot of folks ask me about this, |
| 2:16.4 | and I've done it. |
| 2:18.1 | There's a lot of people have done. |
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