‘The Body’s Gone’: Death Investigator Reacts to Aaron Carter Death Scene Photos

what's up everybody uh I know there's a. lot of weirdos and Twitter people saying. that I'm not going to be in Minneapolis. tonight well go ahead and take a bet on. that. um I will be there and it's a sold out. show and. you can't touch it. Aaron Carter's mom calls out police for. not thoroughly investigating her son's. death as a potential homicide but a. forensic expert says not so fast our own.

expert forensic death investigator. Joseph Scott Morgan makes sense of the. latest in the singer's tragic case. welcome to sidebar presented by law and. crime I'm Jesse Weber. [Music]. over now to a bit of a back and forth. regarding the death of 34 year old. singer Aaron Carter Carter was found. dead in the bathroom of his California. home back on November 5th 2022. his. cause of death hasn't been released to. the public the yemi says that the.

announcement is pending additional. investigation it has been reported that. there were prescription pill bottles and. compressed air cans found at the scene I. should also tell you that drowning seems. to have been ruled out because. apparently there was no water in the. singer's lungs but Carter's mother Jane. schneck has come forward with alleged. photos of the scene and she has accused. police of failing to investigate this. quote potential homicide as well as.

death threats that apparently the singer. was receiving she said quote still. trying to get a real investigation for. the death of my son Aaron Carter she. said this on a Facebook post I want to. share these death scene photos with you. all because the coroner wrote it off as. an accidental drug overdose the photos. are odd so there seems to be dirty. clothes on the floor the bathtub where. Carter was found you can see it filled. with green water again she says the. police failed to investigate this they. immediately looked it as a sign of his. addiction they ruled it as a drug.

overdose well now the New York Post is. reporting that forensic expert Thomas P. morillo a senior lecturer lab instructor. in the University of Maryland's. Department of criminology and criminal. justice has casted some doubt on Jane. schneck's claims so I don't make sense. of this on RN let let us bring in our. expert forensic death investigator from. Jacksonville State University Joseph. Scott Morgan who is also the host of the. body bags podcast Joseph it's good to. see you I appreciate you taking the time.

to come here on sidebar so we don't want. to engage in rumors or speculation but. we also want to understand if there is. something off with this does Carter's. mom have a point so miss schneck says. that the photos will start there they. weren't taken by police but she says. people were allowed to go in and out. seemingly suggesting. sloppy police work seemingly that the. police never treated this as a crime. scene Mr morillo the forensic expert. that I mentioned said that police. probably already photographed it and we. also don't know when these photos were.

taken either what's your initial. impression of the photos. yeah I draw into question the provenance. of any any photo that that I cannot. verify a date and time stamp on you know. you take all the photos you want but uh. we need to understand the Genesis of the. photos and also what what's being. displayed to us. you know that this is interesting you. know you hear about things like staging.

of crime scenes I think that this has. been mentioned a couple of times staging. Cuts both ways you know. um are you attempting to demonstrate. something to prove your point uh uh or. are you photographing something that's. just there where you can actually that's. demonstrative of the reality has. anything been adjusted that's one of the. reasons you know to her Point. specifically that you do want to try to. keep control over a crime scene and.

that's that way you never lose context. of it. so there's too much murkiness here I. think relative to the photos that she. has allowed to be displayed and what the. police are not saying is there anything. about the photos that creates alarm for. you because Carter's mom for instance. suggests that the towels were too. perfectly placed morelio says and I. think this is what you're alluding to. maybe it's not so much about the scene. whether or not it was staged but what is. the body show I mean the body seems to.

be the most important aspect of this. yeah absolutely you know those results. from autopsy which you know look uh the. forensic pathologist that's done the. autopsy they're still waiting on. something at this point in time because. we don't have that data yet I don't even. think we have toxicology uh back yet. um here here's the real rub Jesse. um if you want to move forward with this. case you're going to have to do it. without Aaron Carter's body because the. body was cremated.

so you know you you know you don't get a. do-over. um with this case so they're totally and. completely if you wanted to get a second. opinion where you had uh say for. instance another forensic pathologist. that could actually. um do an examination uh and kind of go. back and check what the original autopsy. revealed that ain't happening in this. case because the body's gone at this. point so right now.

you know all hands on deck to wait you. know you have to wait for Toxicology. you're gonna have to wait for histology. here that's going to play a real. important role histology is actually we. talk a lot about toxicology uh histology. is actually the microscopic examination. of tissue that we take at autopsy so. um looking at changes in the brain. looking at changes in the lungs you know. you brought up the air canisters uh he. apparently has some kind of history of.

what's referred to as huffing taking on. compressed air you know which gives you. this uh euphoric feeling and there was. these canisters all around but you don't. know how many canisters was it just one. canister or two and again it all goes. back so does it seem like the me has. ruled out everything else because the. way that I'm understanding is is it the. me might be calling the shots here if. the me determines that this was an. overdose or this was an accident the. police don't do anything more it's the. me who's spearheading this because if if. again it becomes a question of when.

would the scene have been released to. whoever took the photos if the Emmy I'm. assuming it starts when the Emmy then. goes to the police and then goes from. there right. yeah and just keep in mind and this this. case is one of those cases that is. perfect for to bring up the idea of. staging because you've got. um you've got a fellow that has got a. history of substance abuse mental health. issues all these sorts of things so.

it there is uh the ground is very. fertile you know to think that something. nefarious could could have been going on. and and just when you you begin to think. about illicit drug abuse for instance. and I know they say they have. prescription drugs who's coming in and. out of his life now who's who's passing. through that house in Lancaster is there. anybody that had bad intentions mom's. saying that he had death threats okay. how do we validate that that's something. I believe his fiancee said that as well. that he might have been mixed up with uh. certain people in the drug industry.

yeah and. if it is so neat and so well arranged. most of the time if you have individuals. that are involved in drug trade and. they're trying to send a message they're. not going to have things neatly laid. aside it's going to be a bloody mess. um. and I don't think that that's what. you're seeing here uh she's talked about. the color of the water we don't really. know I don't have a real good sense as. to the timeline I think is one of the.

big things here and and I'm talking. about not the timeline from the family. I'm talking about the timeline from the. medical examiners because they're going. to be exploring this she talked about. color changes in the water uh for me as. a medical legal death investigator she. starts talking about green and brown. Hues in the water I begin to think well. is there some kind of biological change. going on with the body that might. indicate that you've got a maybe a. longer period of time for postmortem. interval.

um. it is essential though that we listen to. everything that the forensic pathologist. has to say in this case and take from. that what you will and you make a very. good point Jesse relative to the police. taking their cues you've gotta you've. got this gentleman that was involved in. drug abuse he's got a history of it he's. been treated for it he's got mental. health issues. if this is something that the medical. examiner deems as a drug overdose or as.

an accidental death where the huffing. has taken place because that would be. ruled probably as an as an accidental. death. um then the police are not going to. pursue this case any further unless they. have something to hang their hat on was. there any signs of forcing entry at the. house you know this guy is supposed to. be you know uh you know a music star uh. did they go in and try to Rob jewelry or. take cash or were there drugs in the.

house anything like that was there any. signs how many times have we talked. about force entry and struggle at the. scene over the years did that exist I'm. not hearing that right now all right. well we'll wait and see as I said the. results will be released I mean pending. this additional investigation but. obviously we can understand the. frustration on the hand on the part of. Aaron Carter's mother nonetheless Joseph. Scott Morgan thanks for taking the time. appreciate it you bet Jesse and that's. so we have for you here on sidebar. everybody thank you so much for joining. us please subscribe on Apple podcast. Spotify YouTube wherever you get your.

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