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Joseph Scott Morgan became a death investigator with the Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Office in suburban New Orleans in 1987. At the time of his hire, he was estimated to have been the youngest medicolegal death investigator in the country working in a major metropolitan area. Over the course of his career he was required to work in the morgue during the day and subsequently work as an investigator for the coroner at night.

In 1992 Morgan accepted the position of Senior Investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office in Atlanta, Georgia, where he remained until 2005 when he medically retired. During his tenure he was a part of the United States Department of Justice Task Force for the design of a national standards for death investigators nationwide. He was one of the founding members of the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators. In 2002 he achieved National Board Certified “Fellow” status, the highest ranking for a death investigator in the United States.

Morgan is now a college professor at North Georgia College and State University where he teaches Forensics courses.

Praise for Blood Beneath My Feet: The Journey of a Southern Death Investigator…

"The terse, earthy tone and black humor read like hard-boiled fiction." - The Statesman