Inside the Morgue

So, it’s no secret that the Victorian era was a macabre time by today’s standards, which is why it’s our favorite time period. Mortality rates were high, and diseases were rampant. So people of that day and age were quite familiar with the concept of death, and they had a much different relationship with death than we do today. They came up with creative ways to remember their passed loved ones; one of those ways being post mortem photography to immortalize their loved ones…after they had already died (hence the post mortem part). For many people in this time, post mortem portraits were their first experience with photography. This new technology allowed them a way to immortalize their dead loved ones, many of whom had never been photographed when they were alive.

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References: https://www.britannica.com/technology/daguerreotype

https://allthatsinteresting.com/victorian-death-photos

https://historytimemachine.com/victorian-post-mortem-how-death-was-immortalized-in-photos/

In this episode, Jess and Alice are once again wow’ed by Bones and her team and all of their main character energy. This episode has it all from fires to murders to anthropology.

Dr Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and also writes books, has an impressive ability to read clues from victims' bones. Consequently, law enforcement calls her to assist with investigations when remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that standard identification methods are useless. Brennan often finds herself teamed with Special Agent Seeley Booth, a former Army sniper, who mistrusts science and scientists when it comes to solving crimes but who has developed respect for Brennan, both professionally and personally.

Show information: Bones S10 Ep5 The Corpse at the Convention

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References:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61786575

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Daniel_Brophy

Pathology duo, Jess and Alice, love nothing more than Victorian era medicine and back in the 1880s, it was a free for all and grave robbing was at its peak. So, to stop body snatchers, they came up with the brilliant idea of a coffin torpedo to put an end to the robbing attempts. This is such an insane design and concept that the girls just had to talk about it for this minisode.

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References: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coffin-torpedos

On this episode, Jess and Alice watched the new Dexter series , Dexter Original Sin. *HUGE SPOILER WARNING FOR DEXTER NEW BLOOD WHICH PREMIERED IN 2021* The girls will be discussing blood spatter (of course), angels of death, and potassium nitrate. Will this series of Dexter beat the original series in accuracy?

In 1991, young Dexter Morgan (Patrick Gibson) begins his internship as a forensic technician for the Miami Metro Police Department while transitioning into an avenging serial killer. When his bloodthirsty urges can no longer be ignored, Dexter must control his inner darkness. With the help from his foster father Harry (Christian Slater), he adopts the Code designed to help him find and kill other serial killers while staying under the radar of law enforcement.

Show information: Dexter Original Sin S1 Ep1

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References: https://go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB11090

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/potassium-nitrate#:~:text=Lesions.,observation%20of%20chocolate%2Dcolored%20tissues.&text=Nonspecific%20findings%20include%20congestion%20of,with%20ingestion%20of%20nitrate%20fertilizer.

Welcome to the Christmas Special! Jess and Alice wanted to wish all of you a happy holiday and what better way to do that than with a Christmas themed episode! Nothing says Christmas like amnesia, how well the organs look in tv shows, and tapeworms. So sit back and relax and enjoy the episode!

Based on the best-selling series of books by M.R. Hall, "Coroner" follows a recently widowed coroner who investigates unnatural, suspicious or sudden deaths in Toronto. She visits different areas of the city and experiences the diversity of Toronto. She taps into her heart and intellect as she solves case. All while doing her day job, Jenny deals with clinical anxiety, a teenage son, and working toward a prospective relationship.

Show information: Coroner S3 Ep9 and Ep10

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References: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-live-tapeworm-in-brain-20151105-story.htmlTRUE CRIME

https://www.livescience.com/60551-bizarre-amnesia-cases.html

https://www.dstv.com/en-za/news/11731/the-cast-and-creators-of-coroner-s3-tell-us-about-their-favourite-props

https://www.healthline.com/health/retrograde-amnesia

In this episode, Jess and Alice ask Dylan questions about death to see how he would respond. And we may have all suppressed the memory of Betty White dying.

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In this episode, we embody the only and only Horacio Caine of CSI Miami to bring you all of the cringey lines they say, how they’re just a little too chill when a body walks out of the morgue, and why we’re now obsessed with little coffins.

A Florida team of forensics investigators uses cutting-edge scientific methods and old-fashioned police work to solve crimes. Horatio Caine, a former homicide detective, heads a group of investigators who work crimes amid the steamy tropical surroundings and cultural crossroads of Miami.

Show information: CSI Miami S5 Ep6 The Curse of the Coffin

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References: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/edinburghs-mysterious-miniature-coffins-22371426/

In this mini episode, Jess and Alice are bringing dark tourism back with a hometown favorite, Eastern State Penitentiary. Listen to them share all the spooky stories the prison has to offer, the history of the grounds, and find out how Steve Buscemi gets brought up in conversation.

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References: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_State_Penitentiarym

https://hauntedus.com/pennsylvania/eastern-state-penitentiary/

In this episode, Jess and Alice consider becoming magicians in the morgue. They watched iZombie, a supernatural crime drama/medical examiner TV show from 2015.

When over-achieving medical resident Liv Moore attends a party that turns into a zombie feeding frenzy, she ends up joining the ranks of the living dead. Determined to pass as human despite her pale appearance and newly listless demeanor, Liv forms a plan to resist her drive to consume fresh human brains by taking a job at a coroner's office, where she can secretly snack on the brains of corpses delivered there. Soon discovering that she absorbs the memories of those she feeds on, she finds new purpose by posing as a psychic and working with a detective to help solve their murders.

Will this episode of iZombie pass in terms of forensic accuracy?

Episode Information: iZombie S2 Ep7 Abra Cadaver

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References:https://allthatsinteresting.com/harry-houdini-death

In this episode, Jess and Alice debunk “Forever”, a crime drama from 2014, while also providing some more detail about aconite poisonings.

Henry Morgan, an immortal, searches for the man who caused a subway train accident. Meanwhile, a mysterious call informs Henry that someone knows his secret.

Tune in to find out how the film holds up in accuracy!

Episode Information: Forever S1 Ep1

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References:

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-dead-of-aconite/4014423.article

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19514874/#:~:text=Soaking%20and%20boiling%20during%20processing,toxic%20and%20non%2Dtoxic%20derivatives.