Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the Manson family murders and the real injuries suffered by the victims, as well as beheadings carried out hundreds of years ago in an effort to explain the difference in the type of injuries created by all manner of weapons that can be used to stab, slice, carve, and disembowel. Professor Morgan explains the difference between the facts of a case and how injuries and weapons are shown in film and how difficult it is to determine the source of a sharp force injury.
Transcript Highlights
00:13.87 Introduction - Sharp Force Injuries
01:11.86 Description of a beheading
04:56.77 Sharp force injury
10:02.83 Executioner refusing to execute
14:59.68 Stabbing injuries
20:27.08 Studying the margin - edges of injury
24:48.30 Always look for the "winking eye"
29:58.47 Thorough autopsy - tongue comes out
35:03.25 First documented autopsy, Caesar
38:58.59 Manson family knife attacks, Sharon Tate
45:03.35 Manson Murders shown in movie shows fork bouncing up and down, ridiculous
46:2 9.07 Conclusion
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