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Sentencing Day and Making Autopsy Poster Boards

from Depths of Self-Deception · #30

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4 min

Tim recalls the guilty verdict and life sentence, then segues into his old job printing gruesome crime scene and autopsy photos onto poster boards for trials, including a story about a man impaled with a tree branch.

In this bit10 moments
  • 35:46Tim describes the defendant receiving a life sentence plus 50 years and his courtroom reaction.
  • 35:58The jury was polled after the guilty verdict, and Tim watched the process unfold.
  • 36:15Tim reflects on the DA's competence and realizes he himself was never cut out for selling mortgages.
  • 36:39A story about a victim who came in with a tree branch inserted anally, allegedly part of organized crime activity.
  • 37:08Making poster boards for court evidence involved laying out crime scene photos with arrows pointing to wounds.
  • 37:43Tim admits he was bad at creating those rape collages and never testified about his work.
  • 38:01Morgues stuff garbage inside bodies after autopsy—wrappers, discarded organs, bloody aprons—before sewing them shut.
  • 38:37They shove materials into the skull to prop it and maintain shape for the funeral.
  • 38:58Tim proposes a JFK immigration screening room where he tells his success story to would-be deportees.
  • 39:08Glenn Greenwald wrote an interesting article about something as the segment winds down.
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