Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan brings one of true crime’s most compelling voices to the stage for a gripping 90-minute journey inside murder, death, and the forensic evidence that reveals the truth. Morgan goes beyond the headlines to explore what the crime scene, the evidence, and ultimately the body itself can tell us about what really happened.
Joseph Scott Morgan has been where most true-crime experts have only read about. A veteran death investigator, he has worked thousands of deaths, stood over bodies at crime scenes and autopsies, and built a career interpreting the clues the dead leave behind. An acclaimed author, nationally recognized forensic expert, and host of the popular Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan podcast, Morgan brings extraordinary firsthand experience and unmistakable storytelling to the stage.
Each performance takes audiences inside several fascinating cases through Morgan’s unique forensic lens: from the assassination of Julius Caesar and the Idaho college student murders to the mysterious deaths of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa, followed by a constantly changing “case of the moment” ripped from today’s headlines.
The evening culminates in a live Q&A opening the floor to the questions true-crime fans have always wanted to ask someone who has done the work: What does a body reveal? What gets missed? What doesn't add up? And how do investigators ultimately know what happened?
Dark. Fascinating. Unfiltered. And unlike any true-crime experience on stage.
The crime makes the headline. The body tells the story. Joseph Scott Morgan knows how to read it.
ABOUT
Joseph Scott Morgan is the Distinguished Scholar of Applied Forensics at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. Joseph holds a Master of Forensic Sciences degree and is formerly a board certified fellow of the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators. He is the host of the podcast, Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, which was nominated for a CLUE Award at CrimeCon 2022 Las Vegas.
Joseph began his career in New Orleans, Louisiana where he was one of the youngest coroner investigators in the United States. Following his tenure in Louisiana, he was named Senior Investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office in Atlanta, Georgia. During his time in Atlanta, Joseph helped create and establish the national training guidelines for medicolegal death investigators. Eventually, the national guidelines would lead to the formation of the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators.
In 2013, Joseph Scott Morgan was named Georgia Author of the Year for his memoir entitled "Blood Beneath My Feet: The Journey of a Southern Death Investigator". Joseph's memoir is currently in development as a televison series. In 2021, Morgan starred in the Oxygen series "Murdered and Missing in Montana" which explored the suspicious deaths of indigenous women on Native American reservations in Montana. Joseph will be starring in the Oxygen docuseries, based on the podcast, "The Piketon Massacre", slated for a November/December 2023 premiere.
Morgan appears regularly on Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, Fox Nation, CourtTV, The Law and Crime Network, Dr. Phil, Fox News, News Nation and numerous podcasts. Joseph has contributed to The Daily Mail, The Sun, The New York Post, as well as a variety of international publications. Since November of 2022, he has spent a great deal of time examining and offering commentary, from a forensics perspective, on the murders of the University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Kaylee Goncalves.
Joseph lives in Jacksonville, Alabama with his precious wife, Kim, and their three dogs. He is a proud Daddy and Papaw to his children and grandbabies.
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