Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: An Alternate Ending Edward LeClair

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🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Edward LeClair, aged 57, was on trial in Denton, Texas for five counts of sexual abuse. While being read his conviction, he chugged an entire bottle of water in the courtroom.

LeClair was then transported to a holding cell and later when checked on by the bailiff was found unconscious. Emergency services were immediately called and LeClair was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and special guest co-host Dave Mack discuss LeClair’s crimes, his decision to take his own life, sodium nitrate, what it does to your body, and more.

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Show Notes:

0:00 - Intro

1:17 - Background

4:45 - Sentence for going after a minor

6:30 - The bottle of water

9:45 - LeClair’s decision to take his own life

11:50 - Would he have been allowed in with his own bottle of water?

14:55 - What substance was in the bottle?

17:50 - Sodium Nitrate

20:50 - What does Sodium Nitrate do to your body?

25:00 - Other times Sodium Nitrate has been used and what the toxicology tells us

28:15 - Can you reverse the effects of poisons? Could LeClair’s death have been prevented?

30:10 - Wrap up

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:19.8	You talked to any prosecutor that's been doing it for a while and some of the most memorable
0:24.3	moments that they have in court is when they've completed a case and they've got to
0:29.7	conviction and there on the other side of the room stands the individual that has
0:33.8	now been charged, prosecuted and stands to pay the price for their misdeeds.
0:40.2	And the prosecutors will tell you it runs a gamut.
0:42.8	You never know how anybody is going to react on any particular day to a sentence.
0:49.4	But for us today we're going to talk about an individual who may have thought he was
0:55.1	cheating the hangman.
0:56.4	And today we're going to talk about the death of Edward LeClair that actually began at
1:03.5	the time of his innocent in a Denton, Texas courtroom.
1:09.7	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Bodybags.
1:17.7	For those of you listening to my voice today I have to just remind you that if there is
1:24.2	anyone either listening or if you have a friend that is dealing with thoughts of self-harm
1:31.6	suicide there is help for you and that help can be found at the National Suicide Prevention
1:37.4	Lifeline.
1:39.2	And that number is 1-800-273-8255 that's 800-273-TALK-T-A-L-K.
1:51.4	Many of me today is my good buddy Dave Mack, Dave's a crime reporter for crime online.
1:56.9	Dave, I got to tell you, sometimes a bottle of water is not as innocent as people might
2:01.6	think.
2:02.6	When you told me about this story my first thought was how in the world can you get
2:09.3	anything into a courtroom in this particular case.
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