Joseph Scott Morgan spends hours talking about crime scenes and forensics in the media and in the classroom. Today he explains everything from a "Natural Death" to "Russian Roulette". The key is to determine "How the Cause Came About".
Natural Deaths: Death as a result of a normal biological process. Accidental Deaths: Death that results from misadventure without assignment of blame to another by the certifier of death. Undetermined Deaths: The causative factors surrounding the death cannot be established. Homicidal Deaths: A death that is at the hand of another. Suicidal Deaths: Death at one's own hand
Transcribe Highlights
00:02.88 Introduction
00:56.30 More than just a "death investigator"
05:00.66 Teaching Forensics while covering crime
10:05.12 Cases thrown out due "dry labbing"
15:00.79 Determinations of how someone died
20:02.38 Manner of Death explained
24:59.02 Medical Legal ruling of Manner of death in Russian Roulette
30:03.94 The term "Cause of Death"
35:04.21 Death at ones own hand
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