The National Institutes of Health comparing Medical Examiner and Coroner states that Coroners are elected lay people who often do not have professional training, whereas medical examiners are appointed and have board certification in a medical specialty. All of this is true. On this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, Joe will take you back in history where the person who finds the dead body in their yard has to gather up a posse and solve the murder mystery or be stuck with paying taxes!! The coroner system has a long history, some funny stories, some strange people, and a few mysteries to unpack.

Transcript Highlights

00:22.56. Introduction of studying the dead.

03:04.63 Discussion most people don’t die from bullet wounds

06:01.87 Talk about forensics

11:38.68 History of “Normans”

17:44.17 Discussion of power of Coroners

22:25.90 Discussion of Coroners Jury

26:18.76 Discussion of authority of coroner

31:00.67 Discussion of scientific people in coroner system

32:05.27 Talk about who backs up the coroner

37:48.5 Discussion of medical examiner state vs coroner state

42:49.50 Conclusion

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Grace Millane is in New Zealand when she meets Jesse Kempson on Tinder. Grace is on a Gap Year trip that has taken her to South America and now she is in Auckland, New Zealand where she is camping and hiking and meeting new people. Connecting on Tinder, Grace meets Kempson for dinner and drinks, most of their evening captured by CCTV. They arrive back at Kempson's hotel and we see them get on and off the elevator. It is the evening of December 1 and Grace turns 22-years-old on December 2nd. On this episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, Joe will breakdown what happened to Grace inside the hotel room and what Jesse Kempson did in the aftermath of the gruesome murder. And Dave Mack will try and make sense of the timeline when, even now, we don't know if Grace made it to her 22nd birthday.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:18 Introduction of Grace Millane, gap year vacation

00:04:27 Discussion of Tinder date timeline

00:09:15 Discussion murderer goes on another Tinder date

00:13:56 Talk about targeting victim, asphyxia

00:18:33 Discussion of Gap Year

00:23:46 Discussion of date captured on video

00:28:17 Talk about murderer covering up the crime

00:33:03 Discussion of destroying the victim

00:36:31 Discussion of killing someone with hands around neck

00:40:13 Talk about the sexual assault

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Missy Bevers was murdered inside a church before 5 a.m. while she was preparing for her morning fitness class. Her body is found by a student and Missy is pronounced dead at the scene. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan will discuss the possible weapons used to kill Missy Bevers and Dave Mack will dig into the possible suspects in an unsolved murder where the main suspect is caught on camera wearing a police swat kit and walking the halls of the church with an unusual gait, waiting for Missy to arrive.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:24 Introducing Missy Bevers

00:01:51 Discussion of unsolved murder

00:04:12 Talk about Camp Gladiator

00:08:38 Discussion of murderer seen on video

00:12:28 Discussion of odd gait

00:17:13 Talk about suspect, man or woman?

00:21:13 Discussion of SWAT disguise

00:26:09 Talk about new kit

00:30:13 Discussion of long hammer as a weapon

00:34:31 Discussion of injuries matching weapon

00:39:05 Talk about coverage of case in media

00:43:20 Discussion of no gun belt

00:46:44.Conclusion

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