Joseph Scott Morgan is the Distinguished Scholar of Applied Forensics at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. Joseph holds a Master of Forensic Sciences degree and is formerly a board certified fellow of the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators. He is the host of the podcast,
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, which was nominated for a CLUE Award at CrimeCon 2022 Las Vegas as well as CrimeCon 2024 Nashville. Joseph's podcast is currently being developed for television.
Joseph began his career in New Orleans, Louisiana where he was one of the youngest coroner investigators in the United States. Following his tenure in Louisiana, he was named Senior Investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office in Atlanta, Georgia. During his time in Atlanta, Joseph helped create and establish the national training guidelines for medicolegal death investigators. Eventually, the national guidelines would lead to the formation of the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators.
In 2013, Joseph Scott Morgan was named Georgia Author of the Year for his memoir entitled "Blood Beneath My Feet: The Journey of a Southern Death Investigator". Joseph's memoir is currently in development as a television series. In 2021, Morgan starred in the Oxygen series "Murdered and Missing in Montana" which explored the suspicious deaths of indigenous women on Native American reservations in Montana. Joseph stared in the Oxygen docuseries, based on the podcast, "The Piketon Massacre" which premiered in December of 2023. In August 2025 JoScott will be starring in the Oxygen docuseries addressing the forensics behind the Idaho Murders.
Joseph is a weekly contributor to KT Studios "True Crime Tonight" on iHeart. Morgan appears regularly on
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, Fox Nation, CourtTV, The Law and Crime Network, Dr. Phil, Fox News, News Nation and numerous podcasts. Joseph has contributed to The Daily Mail, The Sun, The New York Post, as well as a variety of international publications. Since November of 2022, he has spent a great deal of time examining and offering commentary, from a forensics perspective, on the murders of the University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Kaylee Goncalves.
Joseph lives in Jacksonville, Alabama with his precious wife, Kim, and their three dogs. He is a proud Daddy and Papaw to his children and grandbabies.
