October 29, 2021
Lee Evancho
This week Jacksonville State University reminded all students and staff about JSU’s Joseph Scott Morgan’s true crime podcast, “Body Bags.” “To me, there’s a void in the podcast world,” Morgan said. “There’s nobody, at least no one that I can find, with a specific forensics background. All I want to do is teach and to use these cases as a way to instruct. Being a teacher is what I do. It’s who I am.”
Per the JSU website Joseph Scott Morgan, M.F.S., F-ABMDI , is the Distinguished Scholar of Applied Forensics at Jacksonville State University where he holds the faculty rank of Associate Professor of Applied Forensics. Morgan holds a Master of Forensic Sciences degree from National University and is a Board Certified Fellow of the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators.
In 1985 Joseph Scott Morgan began working for the Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Office in New Orleans. During his tenure as the Senior Investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner in Atlanta, Georgia, Morgan helped establish the national training guidelines for Medicolegal Death Investigators. To this day, Joseph Scott Morgan remains one of less than 200 people nationwide to attain “Fellow” status through the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators. Morgan is considered one of the leading experts on the Coroner System in the United States.
Official Release
In the realm of true crime, JSU’s Joseph Scott Morganis nearly as high profile as the cases he’s covered. The Distinguished Scholar of Applied Forensics is a regular guest expert on shows like “Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.” Now, he has top billing.
On Sept. 29, Morgan launched a true crime podcast, “Body Bags,” available on Apple, Spotify, iHeart radio, Audible and other platforms. Each 33-minute episode offers a perspective that’s often lost among the sea of true crime content – forensic science.
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