South Carolina lawyer, Alex Murdaugh, is currently facing trial for the murder of his wife and son. Due to the gruesome nature of the crime, people have begun to look extensively into the family’s history and background and in doing that have found connections with them and other deaths that had been initially ruled as accidents or deaths from natural causes. However, upon further investigation it seems that there may be something much darker at play.

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and special guest co-host  Dave Mack discuss the Murdaugh family history and background, the various victims of this family, the injuries each of them sustained, how you marry anecdotal evidence with physical evidence, and much more.

Show Notes:

0:00 - Intro

2:30 - Background and overview of case

6:50 - The 911 call

9:50 - Victims were shot with different weapons

11:40 - Injuries sustained by Paul

15:05 - Differences ammunition makes in injuries

19:10 - Gloria Satterfield

21:20 - What happened the day that Gloria Satterfield died?

25:00 - Tying together anecdotal evidence and physical evidence

28:20 - Steven Smith

31:20 - Steven’s injuries

35:30 - Using a car as a weapon

37:00 - How are the Murdaugh’s connected to Steven’s death?

38:30 - Mallory Beach

42:45 - How Mallory’s death shined a light on the Murdaugh family

44:35 - Outro

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