Autopsy
Subject in Medicine
Autopsy has come up in 10 episodes across 5 podcasts in TMT, including Morbid, Crime Junkie, Danny Jones Podcast. 4 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Ashley FlowersCreator and host of the true crime podcast Crime Junkie and founder of Audiochuck
Flowers noted that the branch found at the scene appeared far thinner than what a pathologist's research suggested would hold Tripp's weight.
“But the branch that the Brazils found looks barely more than two inches in diameter”
Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Tripp Brazeale (Jun 8, 2026) · Listen from 42:41
Flowers relays Dr. Banerjee's view that being found face down, nude and outside warranted an autopsy.
“the fact that Spencer was found face down, nude, and outside is a red flag enough that an autopsy should have been done”
Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Spencer Irwin (May 11, 2026) · Listen from 35:45
Flowers recommends that families know private autopsies can be requested, citing 1-800-AUTOPSY.
“There's even a really easy phone number to remember that Kelly hopes people listening to this will pay attention to in case they're ever in this unimaginable scenario”
Crime Junkie: MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Spencer Irwin (May 11, 2026) · Listen from 7:53
Alaina UrquhartCo-host of Morbid, autopsy technician and author of the Butcher novels
Urquhart says causes of death are sometimes invisible even after a body is opened.
“Sometimes it's somebody who looks like they're sleeping and it doesn't look like anything has happened”
Morbid: Carrie, Cult Classics & Chaos: A Sit Down with Matthew Lillard (Oct 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:21:58
Urquhart says an autopsy is where helping begins, offering closure and prevention.
“But I feel like in an autopsy, death is just like the beginning of helping”
Morbid: True Crime: A Sit Down With Patricia Cornwell (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 48:51
Karen KilgariffAmerican comedian, writer, and co-host of My Favorite Murder
Kilgariff recounted that a post-execution autopsy found Bathsheba had been five months pregnant, contradicting the court's midwife panel.
“an autopsy is performed on Bathsheba's body, and the physician finds a, quote, perfect male fetus of the growth of five months”
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark: 539 - It Keeps Getting Ruined (Jul 2, 2026) · Listen from 42:19
Patricia CornwellCrime novelist and creator of the Kay Scarpetta series
Cornwell argues that curiosity about autopsies is not morbid but reflects the privilege of reconstructing what happened.
“your very curiosity about an autopsy and anybody's real curiosity is anything but morbid. It's not morbid”
Morbid: True Crime: A Sit Down With Patricia Cornwell (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 47:34
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- Morbid · 5 episodes
- Crime Junkie · 2 episodes
- Danny Jones Podcast · 1 episode
- My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark · 1 episode
- 20/20 · 1 episode
Episodes
Carrie, Cult Classics & Chaos: A Sit Down with Matthew LillardMorbid · Oct 5, 2026 · 1 h 52 min
Actor Matthew Lillard joins Morbid hosts Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart to discuss Mike Flanagan's Carrie, Scream, Five Nights at Freddy's, his career and Dungeons & Dragons.
#433 - Charlie Kirk's Autopsy, Egyptian Planes & Erika Kirk's Darkest Secret | Baron ColemanDanny Jones Podcast · Sep 21, 2026 · 2 h 54 min
Danny Jones and lawyer-turned-podcaster Baron Coleman dissect doubts about the Charlie Kirk assassination, TPUSA, Erika Kirk, HIV criminal defense, and media narratives.
539 - It Keeps Getting RuinedMy Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark · Jul 2, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
Karen Kilgariff recounts the 1778 murder of Joshua Spooner and execution of his pregnant wife Bathsheba, and Georgia Hardstark tells the story of the 1876 Kentucky meat shower.
- Blanche Taylor Moore, The Oldest Woman on Death Row (Part 2)
Morbid · Jul 2, 2026 · 1 h 7 min
Morbid hosts Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley conclude the case of Blanche Taylor Moore, who poisoned Reverend Dwight Moore with arsenic and was sentenced to death.
True Crime Vault: A Killing on the Cape20/20 · Jun 30, 2026 · 1 h 24 min
20/20 revisits the 2002 murder of fashion writer Christa Worthington in Truro, Massachusetts, and questions whether trash collector Christopher McCowan was rightly convicted.
- Blanche Taylor Moore, The Oldest Woman on Death Row (Part 1)
Morbid · Jun 29, 2026 · 1 h 1 min
The Morbid hosts recount the first part of the life of Blanche Taylor Moore, from her strict childhood through a series of suspicious deaths, fires and a lawsuit.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Tripp BrazealeCrime Junkie · Jun 8, 2026 · 1 h 18 min
Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat examine the 2024 death of 15-year-old Tripp Brazeale in Forrest City, Arkansas, ruled a suicide after a deputy's pursuit.
- The Watts Family Murders (Part 2)
Morbid · May 11, 2026 · 2 h 11 min
Morbid hosts Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley conclude the Watts family murders, covering Chris Watts's behavior, polygraph, confession, sentencing and reported paranormal events.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Spencer IrwinCrime Junkie · May 11, 2026 · 51 min
Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat examine the 2024 death of Spencer Irwin in Fresno, whose case police and the coroner dismissed without an autopsy.
- True Crime: A Sit Down With Patricia Cornwell
Morbid · May 4, 2026 · 1 h 12 min
Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell talks with Morbid hosts Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley about her memoir True Crime, personal safety, autopsies, Jack the Ripper and the Scarpetta TV series.