Blood Beneath My Feet

by Morgan, Joseph Scott

• ISBN13: 9781936239337
• ISBN10: 1936239337
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-03
• Publisher: Feral House

Summary

Have you ever been locked in a cooler with piles of decomposing humans for so long that you had to shave all the hair off your body in order to get rid of the smell? Joseph Scott Morgan did. Have you ever lit a Marlboro from the ignited gas of a bloated dead man's belly? Joseph Scott Morgan has. Have you ever wept over a dead dog while not giving a shit about the dead owner laying next him? Morgan did. Were you named after a murder victim? Joseph Scott Morgan was. This isn't Hollywood fantasyit's the true story of a boy born into the deprivations of a white trash trailer park who as an adult gets further involved in the desperate backdoor sagas of the "new South." No hot blondes here, just maggots, grief, and the truth about forensics and death investigation. Joseph Scott Morganbecame a death investigator with the Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office in suburban New Orleans in 1987, the youngest medicolegal death investigator in the country. During the day, Morgan worked in the morgue, and at night investigated for the coroner. In 1992 Morgan became senior investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office in Atlanta. Morgan is now a college professor at North Georgia College and State University, where he teaches a death investigation course based on the national standards which he helped develop. He and his family reside in the Blue Ridge Mountains of north Georgia.

Table of Contents

Advice from Dead Kinfolks	p. 1
Painting the Town with Joe	p. 11
Jerry Lee and Me	p. 19
It's All in How You Say It	p. 27
Southern Man	p. 38
The Mustache	p. 46
Red Beans	p. 54
Hey, Haven't We Met Before?	p. 58
The Earache	p. 64
Forsythia	p. 70
Gainful Employment	p. 81
Color Plates	p. 87
Little Gods and Chocolate Milkshakes	p. 105
He Was Your What?	p. 117
The Trailer Park Swimming Hole	p. 123
Eventually the Sun Will Shine on Every Dog's Ass	p. 133
Hell Yeah, It Hurt!	p. 143
Terminus	p. 146
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