Joseph Scott Morgan

But Nancy, let me drop this on you.

I was just thinking about this because, and I don't want to go chasing rabbits here, but, you know, with Rex Huerman, there's a hearing that's coming up relative to...

the unidentified Asian male that they have.

And you know what they're going to be using to determine postmortem interval in that case?

They're going to be taking the microbial life in that individual's remains and trying to build out a succession.

And did you know that there's been a lot of success with this, with decomposing bodies?

As a matter of fact, it's more accurate

and say things that we do relative to, you know, rigor mortis, liver mortis, all these sorts of things, because you're going into the gut, these microbes that live in there, and we can profile the DNA, and you can put a much tighter timeline utilizing this.

I'm wondering...

if what kind of sampling has been done relative to this, because these microbes indwell within our body and they continue to live even in death.

And so you can do a succession.

It's kind of like entomology, but much more specific.

And you couple that with the smells that were emanating.

You couple that with a lot of circumstantial information that we're getting relative to when she's last known alive.

and you begin to kind of tighten down that window.

And that's going to be the big thing here because we've got this huge, mysterious gap in time.

You know, we've heard things all the way from spring, early summer.

Yeah, it's accurate, but that's an accurate comparison.

But what I'm talking about is much more specific.

Now, I'm not saying that they could utilize this to bring it down to the very minute that this happened, but with this succession that takes place in the microbial life.