Unbelievable Rulings! Manner, Cause, Mechanism of Death: Part 2

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Part Two of "Manner, Cause, Mechanism of Death", the death rulings of John O'Keefe, Virginia Giuffre, Dana Plato, Heidi Planck and others including one where a burglar is sent to prison for murdering someone who wasn't shot, stabbed, strangled, or even touched by the suspect who was robbing the place, and who will possibly spend the rest of his life in prison. The Karen Read Case is also discussed as to the Manner, Cause, and Mechanism of death of John O'Keefe. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about cases when no body is found but evidence found at the scene is "incompatible with life" and how this is used in an investigation.
Joseph Scott Morgan goes deep into death investigation and what really matters, breaking down the four questions of Death Investigation: How? What? When? Why?

Transcribe Highlights

00:02.88 Introduction

00:56.30 Cause and Effect, Mechanism

05:00.66 Suicide Ruling in overdose death of Dana Plato

09:55.12 Needle still in the arm of overdose victims

15:58.79 Manner of death

19:02.38 Coroner decides to rule overdose deaths as homicides

23:59.02 Elderly Man Dies from heart attack meeting robber in Kitchen - Robber sent to prison

28:03.94 Heidi Planck missing, evidence found is incompatible with life

34:15.80 John O'Keefe Manner of death

39:05.80 Brain expands with no place inside skull to go

41:56.73 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:10.4	How.
0:12.1	What?
0:13.9	When.
0:16.4	Why?
0:18.7	Those questions are always asked when it comes to death investigation.
0:23.0	They always are.
0:24.8	And I think that when we begin to distill down the nature of death and what brought an
0:32.5	individual to, let's say, their end, it's not necessarily as simplistic as you might think that it is.
0:43.3	Sometimes it can be very complex.
0:46.4	But the beauty of death investigation is the individuals are no longer with us and as impatient as folks can be
0:58.3	sometimes, we still are afforded the ability in the medical legal community to take our time
1:04.4	and to really think about these sorts of things. You know, when it comes down to cause and effect,
1:13.1	and a word that many don't normally associate with death.
1:18.9	And that's mechanism.
1:22.5	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Bodybacks.
1:41.9	I think, Dave, that when many people think of individuals who had, say, for instance,
1:45.4	participated in IV heroin abuse.
1:53.3	And we give them a manner, which surprisingly most of the time is going to be ruled as an accidental death, which for me has always been a bit lacking, I think, because, you know, we've been taught for years and years. Little
2:04.8	ones are always taught in school. You know, drugs are bad. Just say no, going back to Nancy
2:10.9	Reagan. People have been taught. They've been told. But yet, a drug OD is generally ruled as an accidental death,
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