Dave Mack

But then at a certain point, a mama knows this is not normal.

Three months is too long.

And she no longer listening to the stories that are being told.

She goes to the police.

So already he's gone three months.

We know he's in the creek, but she doesn't.

Police begin the investigation, and I think they're able to get a good idea of what happened early on, Joe, based on who's involved here.

Who were Matthew's friends?

Who were the people he hung out with?

So police break them down.

And they find out what happened.

They find out from Stephen Gaddis.

He ends up over time telling the truth.

But when the body of Matthew is found, it's August 8th.

He's tossed into this creek in April, April 3rd.

Joe, what condition would a body be that had been injected with fentanyl?

And I'm curious, does a beating before you die, is that going to cause you to decompose differently than if you were not beaten to a pulp before you were?

I remember Thomas Noguchi talking about using that terminology to find the needle puncture wound on John Belushi.

Yeah, he did.

Thankfully.