Millions of tourist flock to Paris every year to visit the Louvre or see the Eiffel Tower up close. While tourists take photos on the city streets, under their feet, lining the walls of nearly two hundred miles of tunnels lie the skeletons of 6 MILLION people. Joseph Scott Morgan recounts his recent visit to the tunnels under the "City of Light" and explains how the area became the final resting place for millions of people. And in a shocking turn, the Professor finds a skull that appears to have a gunshot wound to the head!

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00:01.76 Introduction
02:26.06 Handrail phobia
05:00.55 Church and alter made from bones
09:48.76 Touring Notre Dame
15:19.56 A mantel made of stone
19:30.53 Bones stacked according to type
25:11.72 WW2 - Nazi's in one place, French resistance in another
30:08.31 Looking for trauma on the bones
35:44.67 Skull showed trauma
38:17.26 Conclusion

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Joseph Scott Morgan puts on his teachers cap and explains Decompositional changes and what really happens in the first minutes, hours, and days after death and tells the story of a rookie cop doing a simple welfare check calls for backup after finding a victim dead in his tv chair. The still wet behind the ears cop thinks the victim was killed with a hatchet, but all of the blood and body fluid appearing on the victims' shirt is not from a hatchet, the man had a heart attack. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack talk about the disintegration of body tissues after death, known as decomposition as well as the two processes of Decomposition and how important these processes will be in the upcoming trial of Bryan Kohberger for the murders of four college students in Idaho.

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00:03.14 Introduction

01:34.93 Professor Morgan is ready to teach

04:44.28 Reason for understanding decomposition

09:51.60 Can't always see it, but you can smell it

14:43.12 People dying on toilets

19:01.43 Disintegration, breaking down what is organic

24:31.13 Autolysis and Putrefaction

29:35.64 Body decomposing

34:59.98 Rigor mortis leaves, body becomes flaccid

40:12.40 Toes and fingers dry out

44:32.69 Natural Death looks like a murder

45:35.23 Conclusion

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The death of Ellen Greenberg was initially ruled a homicide, but without warning or explanation, Doctor Marlon Osbourne changed the ruling to suicide. Ellen's parents have spent the last 14 years trying to have it changed back to homicide, or undetermined. The Greenberg's have two civil suits about the case, one headed for the state supreme court later this year, but on the first day of jury selection for the other case, a settlement is reached. Doctor Marlon Osbourne, who conducted the autopsy on Ellen Greenberg as the former assistant medical examiner with the ME's office, signed a sworn verification statement in which he says he now believes Ellen's manner of death should be designated as something other than suicide. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and breakdown how this change impacts the case today and in the future.

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00:00:00 Introduction

03:29.50 Dr. Osbourne changes ruling from homicide to suicide

07:23.79 The life of Ellen Greenberg

12:21.71 location of injuries

17:19.04 Joe talks about autopsy

22:22.18 Greenberg had active day, no issues

27:36.97 Classification of "manner of death"

32:45.96 Giving a statement to police

37:06.32 Steps in death investigation

42:48.71 Conclusion

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