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🫢 [VIDEO] - Murder Scene Expert Reflects on Living w/ The DEAD | Joseph Scott Morgan • #146

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Julian Dorey

Comedy

4.6 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2023

⏱️ 185 minutes

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BUY Joseph’s Book, “Blood Beneath My Feet”: https://amzn.to/3Ob3Upt  Support Our Show on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey Subscribe To Our Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChs-BsSX71a_leuqUk7vtDg  (***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Joseph Scott Morgan is a forensics expert, author, and TV personality. After a 20-year career as a nationally-renowned former death investigator in Fulton County (Atlanta), Georgia, Morgan became the chief forensics correspondent for Nancy Grace, Dr. Phil and many other prominent media titans. His book, “Blood Beneath My Feet” is considered by many the greatest forensics memoir ever written. ***TIMESTAMPS*** 0:00 - Intro; How Joe got his TV name 3:44 - Separating death from the job; Memories & Murder Scenes 9:03 - Joe’s Dark times 11:14 - A Somber Process: Notifying the families of the murdered 15:50 - Woman whose husband died w/ “lady of the night” story 21:55 - The primal reaction to death 25:14 - Desensitization of death via True Crime genre; Elise Fletcher Case 31:04 - Gabby Petito, Bryan Kohberger - Idaho case 37:20 - How media decides what murders to cover; “Did they suffer?” 45:31 - Why closure doesn’t exist; The father who called Joe for 7 yrs after son’s death 51:55 - Elephants grieving; Human grief 55:02 - Joe recounts the death of his son, Isaac 1:00:52 - Why Joe hates the word “Why” 1:05:11 - How Joe got into forensics 1:10:01 - Opening up bodies 1:18:02 - OJ Simpson Case Medical Examiner 1:22:04 - What forensics experts do at murder scenes 1:30:06 - Getting to murder scene; The victim’s family notification process 1:35:08 - Detectives vs Medical Examiners 1:39:04 - That unlimited variables of evidence at crime scenes 1:42:00 - Post-Mortem Interval; Algor Mortis; Determining if body was moved 1:47:04 - Rigor Mortis & Body Temperature 1:52:44 - Nancy Solomon’s coverage of Sheridan murders 1:59:10 - The Stabbed Old Lady Hidden Murder Scene 2:06:47 - Does life & death of job make you more focused? 2:09:05 - Joe took the darkness of the job home with him 2:14:46 - Joe’s horrific childhood 2:20:51 - The end of Joe’s career after son’s death 2:25:28 - Joe’s bad relationships w/ his father and stepfather 2:32:15 - Julian’s theory about Joe; Why Joe loves teaching 2:41:15 - Why Joe’s panic attacks started 2:48:24 - Revisiting Joe’s son’s death: “Be careful what you ask God for.” 2:56:04 - Julian gives his opinion about Joe 2:57:34 - Is Joe afraid of death? 3:03:04 - Joe’s book & podcast ~ Get $150 Off The Eight Sleep Pod Pro Mattress / Mattress Cover (USING CODE: “JULIANDOREY”): https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/trendifier Julian's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey ~ Music via Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.6

When you say you notified yourself, I mean, I could imagine what you meant by that, but take me to that moment. What is that? Do you say out loud?

0:15.8

A scientist and myself looked down at that little baby, and I validated at that moment in time without anybody else

0:21.7

telling me that he was in fact deceased and I knew it at that moment in time as I held

0:27.5

him and I looked at him and I remember looking at my wife as she was weeping in bed

0:32.3

and telling her he's gone and handed him over to her and we wept i still wept today still weep today

0:45.0

i still weep on his birthday every year 24th september You're going to do. I'm going to be. . So she started, literally started calling me Joseph. And, you know, I've got friends from high school and, you know, decades back in my life and people still call me Joe and it's like a shock when I hear it now because everyone I have met for the last 25 years since I've been married to my bride calls meoseph now and so it's just one of those things

1:48.0

and then when i got into uh the atmosphere of nancy grace it was it's that very abbreviated thing

1:58.0

when she she's very staccato you know when she talks and you know it's it's very

2:03.1

she has an economy with things many times and she just started calling me just got and that's the

2:09.9

way it's hey just got and you don't know if if there's anger involved in that you don't know if

2:14.6

there's warmth you don't know how that's how that's going to come

2:17.7

off so she started calling me joe scott and everywhere you know i go you know i'll i'll have

2:22.8

some news anchor now that'll refer to me yeah well we've got joe scott morgan here it's like

2:28.8

the hell did you know joe scott i mean it's a it's a weird it's a weird kind know, it really is. Well, you got to get used to being a media star now. You've been at this for like a decade. Yeah, yeah, I have. It's a weird thing. But yet I still have gotten, I've not gotten to the point where I've had it happen a couple of times. It's kind of strange, you know, when you're in a public place and people will say, hey, I know you. I've seen you somewhere. My wife gets it more than anybody. She'll say, somebody will say, aren't you married to Joseph Scott Morgan? And she's like, yeah. Oh my God, we were watching television last night and it came on. There go yeah it's it's it's it is a bit

3:09.4

surreal it's it's a bit weird there's something that happens though with people specifically from

3:14.1

tv i find where especially when you're used to seeing them with just kind of up close shots or

3:20.9

something like that maybe like in the suit they will look a little different

3:25.2

they do seem in person like i knew you were walking towards me today because i'm picking you up at

3:29.3

the airport i know they are but as i'm seeing you come towards me i'm like looks a little different

3:33.8

than he does on tv like it's not i wouldn't if i were just a normal passer by i probably wouldn't

3:39.5

wouldn't have known and i know your face yeah facing. You know, you just want to blend in. Yeah, exactly. But I had actually seen your face before you followed me on Twitter, like months and months ago. I was like, wait, I know this guy. And it's because you're all over TV, as you've been saying, and you're all over all these shows because of this whole wave of people being so into true crime these days.

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