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.
Transcript Highlights
.14 Introduction
.93 Professor Morgan is ready to teach
.28 Reason for understanding decomposition
.60 Can't always see it, but you can smell it
.12 People dying on toilets
.43 Disintegration, breaking down what is organic
.13 Autolysis and Putrefaction
.64 Body decomposing
.98 Rigor mortis leaves, body becomes flaccid
.40 Toes and fingers dry out
.69 Natural Death looks like a murder
.23 Conclusion
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