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Speaker 1: Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan. Priority you know where

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Speaker 1: exactly do you stop your treasure? If you will, Where

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Speaker 1: is it that you put your value in this life?

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Speaker 1: I can only speak from my experience. I value the

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Speaker 1: time that I have with my kids. My son, who

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Speaker 1: is an adult now, is still in college. He still

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Speaker 1: comes to me for advice, which is amazing in and

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Speaker 1: of itself. But those moments that I have with him

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Speaker 1: now make me reflective of the times that I had

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Speaker 1: with him when he was younger, learning baseball for instance,

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Speaker 1: playing golf, traveling, and there is nothing you can do

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Speaker 1: to replace that time. Today, I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: a case involving a father and a son, a young

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Speaker 1: man named Grant Solomon, and a life that was tragically

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Speaker 1: brought to a very sudden end at eighteen years of age.

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Speaker 1: My name is Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Bodybacks, Dave.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think back right now, through the hazy

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Speaker 1: mist of time, trying to remember what my first car was.

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Speaker 1: I think if I remember correctly, yeah, I know it

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Speaker 1: was because I was almost killed in it. I had

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Speaker 1: a nineteen sixty nine Mustang with a three h two

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Speaker 1: got for six hundred bucks and had repainted, restored, not

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Speaker 1: to a great degree. It would not have done well

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Speaker 1: seventeen year old, and boy was I proud of it.

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Speaker 1: And a guy, a drunk driver, blew a stoplight and

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Speaker 1: I was going to play college football and lost every

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Speaker 1: opportunity that I had because of a severe neck injury,

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Speaker 1: and thankfully recovered from that. But I remember that car

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Speaker 1: so fondly because it was my first. It was my first.

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Speaker 1: It's something that I valued, and my mom was a

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Speaker 1: big part of me possessing that car and having that car.

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Speaker 1: And when you're a kid that age, your identity kind

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Speaker 1: of gets tied up and that sort of thing, doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: Grant Solomon also had a vehicle. It was I think

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Speaker 1: a two thy fifteen Toyota Tacoma pickup truck. I think

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Grant Solomon had just turned eighteen years old, and

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Speaker 2: he had that twenty fifteen Toyota to come, a pickup

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Speaker 2: that I want to point out from the very beginning,

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Speaker 2: He excelled in athletics. Grant Solomon's mom and dad, Aaron

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Speaker 2: Solomon and Angie Solomon. Aaron Solomon was a well known

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Speaker 2: sports anchor and then later a morning show television news

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Speaker 2: they lived, and his mom, Angie was a doctor of pharmacology.

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Speaker 2: Grant has a younger sister. Now. Grant's mother and father,

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Speaker 2: Aaron and Angie had gone through a horrific divorce. It's

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Speaker 2: July twentieth of twenty twenty. Well, here's the scene. Then,

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Speaker 2: Grant Solomon and his father, Aaron Solomon, they meet at

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Speaker 2: Ward Performance Institute in Gallatin, Tennessee. This is a facility

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Speaker 2: for baseball players to work out, get some private coaching,

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Speaker 2: I mentioned, Grant Solomon is a blue chip athlete. He's

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Speaker 2: a baseball player. Many colleges are looking at him while

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Speaker 2: they were there, and it's not unusual for them to

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Speaker 2: have been at a place like this. It was about

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Speaker 2: an hour long drive for Grant to get to Ward

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Speaker 2: Performance Institute, but they didn't have an appointment, and you

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Speaker 1: So what you're saying is is that if you were

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Speaker 2: But they arrive Aaron Solomon is there first. Grant Solomon

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Speaker 1: He's thinking about Grant circumstances as he is arriving at

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Speaker 1: to say that the value of an eyewitness in many

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Speaker 1: cases involving death is certainly important. But when you begin

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Speaker 2: Dave, this story really hit home with me because we

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Speaker 2: had an suv in our driveway at my house. It

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Speaker 2: was in park at the time. My grandson Breilan was

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Speaker 2: about two maybe maybe not even too in his car seat. Thankfully,

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Speaker 2: He's in the ignition the vehicle's in park. All of

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Speaker 2: of thirty yards of my driveway. There was a malfunction,

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Speaker 2: Joe in that vehicle because I wanted to know, was

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Speaker 2: how did this happen? How is this possible? Well, we

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Speaker 1: Wait you just said you found out. Yes, well, gee, Dave,

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Speaker 2: Right, Well, you know, the insurance company made me do that.

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Speaker 2: I wondered about it. I questioned it, if there is

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Speaker 2: have to. And so we did an investigation. They determined

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Speaker 2: that something broke in the transmission that allowed this to happen.

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Speaker 2: It was a freak accident.

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Speaker 1: For us in forensics, people don't normally think about this.

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Speaker 1: Mechanics in particular are some of our biggest resources when

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Speaker 1: it comes to accident investigation, because, yeah, you see a

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Speaker 1: see them using the laser total station. They're taking all

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Speaker 1: these points of measurement. You see the if you ever

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Speaker 1: marking points of impact, you'll see all this weird coding

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Speaker 1: That's part of what the accident team does. But that's

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Speaker 1: only the beginning. Many times with vehicles, those vehicles will

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Speaker 1: And just to understand with Grant's death, which seemingly comes

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Speaker 1: You know, this truck. It's not some tiny little thing

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Speaker 1: You're talking about a truck that weighs anywhere from the

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Speaker 1: curve weaves anywhere from about thirty six hundred pounds to

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Speaker 2: This is the explanation of what happened, according to Aaron Solomon,

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Speaker 2: My son, Grant, and I pulled into WPI separately, parked

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Speaker 1: One of the things that I was very curious about Dave.

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Speaker 1: In this case, the father alleges in his initial report

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Speaker 2: It was actually five days later.

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Speaker 1: My understanding is he normally kept it in the cab

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Speaker 2: So we have the first statement to the police. The

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Speaker 2: Now remember Grace and Aaron Solomon were divorced. Bottom line

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Speaker 2: here is we had Aaron's first story to police. Looks

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Speaker 2: down in an email, looks back up, the car, truck's

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Speaker 2: gone rolling down the hill. Where's Grant? Now? A couple

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Speaker 2: of days later, he is explaining this to Grant's mother

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Speaker 2: You never get a full on video of his face.

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Speaker 2: You really are looking at his feet, but you can

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Speaker 2: clearly hear him rather explain to Grant's mother, Angie, what happened.

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Speaker 2: He said, quote, I didn't see to the point where

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Speaker 2: he gets to this. And at this point Aaron is

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Speaker 2: of the truck, out of the back seat, directly behind

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Speaker 2: this is the last thing I see. Angie asked, did

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Speaker 2: He's referring to the back door. That's what he's actually

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Speaker 2: Here based on description of what took place. What would

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I'm not trying to be a smart alec

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Speaker 1: we still don't know how many grass stains we're on

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Speaker 2: And what about his shoes? Would I expect to see

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Speaker 1: They've got wear on on them, but relatively speaking, compared

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Speaker 1: And if you don't believe that cars can leave behind

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Speaker 1: But they're very specific, aren't they.

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Speaker 2: Dave, you pointed out something about going out to your

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Speaker 1: And have the police that conducted the investigation into this case.

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Speaker 1: This is aside from all of the other things that

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Speaker 1: has also been stated that potentially he had been rolled

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Speaker 3: Grant Solomon's manner of death was determined to be a

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Speaker 1: I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is bodybacks