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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey everyone, Welcome the Monday's Morbid Minute. This is your
quick rundown of the week's most fascinating stories involving death, disease, medicine,
and injury, making headlines and rippling through the pop culture.
We'll tease the cases here, then do a deep dive
into the pathology, forensics, and medical mysteries later in our
Normal Mother Knows Death episodes, in articles over in the

(00:27):
Gross Room, and during our weekly YouTube live bonus episode
exclusively for Gross Room members. If it's dark, disturbing, medically bizarre,
or just too good not to dissect, you'll hear it
first on Monday's Morbid Minute. I'm in court cases Oregon

(00:50):
sex offender accused of cutting open a camping tent and
kidnapping two women. First up a terrifying hiking trail case
out of Oregon Federal prosecutor say fifty eight year old
Jean Arnold mclnthian, a convicted sex offender, cut open a
camping tent in Tillamoke County around midnight on July fourth,
twenty twenty four, then allegedly kidnapped two women who were inside.

(01:13):
Authorities say he bound them, blindfolded them, threatened them with
a bag of razor sharp knives and said he was
going to sexually assault them. He was just arrested and
is now charged with kidnapping and attempted abusive sexual contact,
and officials say that he had a prior conviction from
two thousand involving a similar assault. A California mother believed

(01:34):
to have killed her husband, toddler newborn, and herself a
devastating murder suicide case out of North Hills. Los Angeles
police say Marine Vesmagian is believed to have shot and
killed her husband thirty one, and their two year old
son and their six day old daughter before turning the
gun on herself. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner confirmed

(01:58):
all four died from gunshot wounds to the head, with
Marine's death rule to suicide and the deaths of her
husband and children ruled homicides. Authorities have not confirmed whether
Marine had postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis, and no official
motive has been released. Because the baby was only six
days old, some people close in the community have speculated

(02:21):
that may be the reason why, but it just is speculation,
not a confirmed medical finding. Postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis
are not the same thing. Postpartum depression can cause severe sadness, anxiety, hopelessness,
and suicidal thoughts, whereas postpartum psychosis is more rare and
more dangerous and can involve delusions, hallucinations, confusion, paranoia, or

(02:44):
thoughts of harming oneself or the baby. At this point,
investigators have not said whether Marine has shown any of
these signs prior to the killing. In Celebrity and pop
culture news, Caramaro Brown opens up about plastic surgery and
chronic pain. Caramaro Brown is opening up after a private

(03:06):
medical issue that turned into years of chronic pain. The
Queer Eye star says that he had a buckle fat
removal in twenty twenty one after gaining weight during the pandemic,
but the procedure left him with scar tissue that blocked
his salivary glands. He said that it caused swelling pain
in major insecurity while people online speculated about his changing face.

(03:27):
He eventually had reconstructive surgery to remove the scar tissue
and repair the gland tissue, and he says he is
now pain free. This is a good reminder that cosmetic
surgery is still surgery. The salivary glands helped produce saliva
for chewing, swallowing, digestion, and oral health. And when these
glands where ducts are blocked or damage, patients may experience swelling, pain,

(03:47):
dry mouth, and an increased risk of infection and chronic symptoms.
Political consultants puberty guide draws criticism. A political consultant names
Morris Katz, wrote a puberty guide for boys ages ten
to twelve back in twenty twenty, titled Everything you Always

(04:07):
wanted to Know about Puberty and should not be Googling
for curious boys. This is an illustrated book with over
one hundred pages that are aimed for young boys who
are going through puberty. There's a page in the book
that colorfully illustrates the effects of puberty hormones genitalia between
the ages of eleven and fourteen, using examples like oranges, snakes,

(04:30):
and butterflies to show the changes in size. But recently
Morris Katz said that he had a different idea quote.
At first, we were going to use images of my
penis to get the point across, but the publisher said
it was inappropriate. So here we are with some fruit
and animal metaphors The recent statement by Cats should have

(04:50):
us all questioning what this man's real intentions were while
writing this book. Puberty education is extremely important, but materials
for children need professional standard its age appropriate language, medical review,
and zero personal sexualized content from the adult author who
is creating this material, How it is framed, and whether

(05:10):
the judgment behind it is appropriate needs to be questioned
by parents more before giving these materials to our kids.
May And Biliac describes a nightmare GLP one side effect. MAYM.
Biliac is opening up about what she calls her GLP
one nightmare after taking only one low dose injection. She
said she was not taking it for cosmetic weight loss,

(05:33):
but several doctors had suggested it might help with the
chronic symptoms to autoimmune and inflammatory conditions, including Graves disease
in Trogan syndrome. Instead, she said she developed severe gastro
intestinal symptoms including violent diarrhea, vomiting, sulfur urbs, bloating, cramping,
body aches, and dehydration bad enough to require IV fluids.

(05:56):
In Medicine and health News, Massachusetts high school test is
after a breast cancer diagnosis among teachers in Massachusetts. A
high school is undergoing environmental testing. After several female teachers
were diagnosed with breast cancer over the past few years.
The district contacted the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and
officials say they are looking at the building impossible environmental concerns.

(06:19):
This kind of story is scary because people naturally wonder
if there is a cancer cluster. Investigators have to look
at the number of cases, ages, cancer types, work locations,
length of exposure, background rates, and whether there is any
known environmental hazard. A baby's life is saved by fetal
botox treatment. This case is really wild. A baby named

(06:43):
Noel Prince was diagnosed before birth with a complex gastrocesis
when the intestines protrude outside the abdomen and can be
damaged by exposure to amniotic fluid. At twenty five weeks,
doctors at Texas Children's Hospital used botox in utero to
relac the fetal abdominal wall and improved blood flow to
the exposed organs. It worked, and Noel was able to

(07:06):
stay in the wound for nine more weeks before delivery.
She was born at thirty four weeks, had surgery, spent
eighty one days in the nicew and is now reportedly
doing well. We think of botox as cosmetic, but medically
it is a muscle relaxing drug used for many conditions.
Campbells and Walmart issued over alleged worms in spaghettios. A

(07:27):
Florida family is suing Campbells and Walmart after cleaning a
can of spaghettios contained moving worms or parasites. The family
alleges they became sick after eating the product and needed
medical care. They claim their daughter suffered parasitic infections and
the mother had gestro intestinal illness, sepsis, hepatic injury, non
alcoholic fatty liver disease, anemia, and PTSD. They are suing

(07:51):
Campbell's and Walmart for seventy five thousand dollars for selling
a product that is unsafe for human consumption. Campbell's has
said the claims are without merit and it plans to
defend itself, while Walmart said it is reviewing the complaint.
Dermatologists warn about melano tantu and abnormal moles. Skin specialists
are warning about melanotanti and unregulated peptide being promoted online

(08:15):
as a tanning shortcut. Dermatologists are seeing patients who use
melanoten TiO suddenly develop new, abnormal and potentially dangerous moles.
The concern is that people are injecting or using a
substance outside of normal medical oversight to darken their skin
while also possibly changing pigmented lesions that need monitoring. Abnormal

(08:36):
moles matter because melanoma can be deadly if missed. Any new, changing, bleeding, irregular,
or darkening lesion always needs evaluation. A wearable device may
monitor blood pressure without cuffs. Researchers at the University of
Utah are working on a wearable device that can continuously
monitor blood pressure without the annoying arm cuff. The device

(08:59):
uses electrical measurements related to pulsating blood, with the goal
of tracking blood pressure changes throughout the day instead of
relying on isolated readings. This could be a big deal
because hypertension is often called a silent killer. People can
walk around with high blood pressure and feel completely fine,
while the risk of stroke, card attack, kidney disease, and
aneurysm rises. The technology still has to be validated and

(09:22):
used correctly, but continuous monitoring could eventually show patterns doctor's
mists during a single off visit. Doctors warn that the
pill may affect clatoral size and sexual function. This story
is getting attention for discussing a little known possible side
effect of hormonal birth control contraception, which is changes in

(09:44):
clatoral tissue and sexual function. The concern is that some
birth control pills may lower free testosterone, which plays a
role in genital blood flow, arousal, and tissue response. If
someone notices pain, loss of sensation, loss of libido, dryness,
or changes in arousal after starting hormonal contraception, then it's
worth discussing with a clinician instead of being brushed off

(10:05):
as it's all in your head. An eleven year old
bleeds from the eyes, nose, and ears with a rare disorder.
Doctors reported a bizarre case involving an eleven year old
boy in India who began bleeding from his eyes, nose,
and ears without pain or obvious injury. His blood work
included clotting related testing was normal, and doctors eventually diagnosed

(10:26):
him with hematohydrosis, which is sometimes called bloody sweat. It
is an extremely rare condition that's been linked in some
cases to severe emotional stress. In this boy's case, the
episodes appeared to be connected with academic pressure, pure pressure,
and parental expectations. A woman welcomes a baby after transgender

(10:47):
brother donates eggs. Kizzy Jones, a London woman in her forties,
had struggled with infertility for years because of an age
related fertility decline, fibroids, enemetriosis, two miscare carriages in the
high cost of ive yef. She was considering donor eggs
when her transgender brother, Kenny Ethan Jones, offered to pause

(11:07):
his medical transition so he could harvest and donate his eggs.
After a difficult process for both siblings, embryos were created.
The transfer was successful and in early twenty twenty five,
and Kizzi gave birth to a healthy baby boy at
the end of twenty twenty five. In freak accidents and
unexpected deaths, three year old dies after a bouncy castle

(11:30):
is lifted by wind. In Montreal, a three year old
girl died after strong winds lifted an inflatable castle into
the air during a church party. Several other people were
injured and six reportedly required hospitalization. Witnesses described the inflatable
being carried high into the air before crashing down with
children still inside. This is why bounce houses and inflatable

(11:52):
attractions have to be anchored properly into the ground. Woman
strangled by her own purse. A forty two year old
woman named Halle Marie Morano Melendez was decapitated by her
own purse after a car crash into her motorcycle and
fled the scene in Puerto Rico. No additional information has

(12:13):
been released. A woman rescued after falling down a trash
chute in a Hackensack high rise. In Hackensack, New Jersey,
firefighters rescued a woman after she fell into a trash
chute from the fourteenth floor of a high rise. Fire
officials say she became stuck between the third and fourth
floors because backed up trash trapped her inside the chute.

(12:34):
Crews had to cut into the chute, remove debris, and
free her for about thirty minutes. She was treated at
the scene, and one firefighter also suffered an arm injury
during the rescue. And that's it for this week's Monday's
Morbid Minute. For full breakdowns of these stories, plus any
breaking news that develops, be sure to tune into this

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as a pathologist's assistant. I have a master's level education
and specialize in anatomy and pathology education. I am not
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to educate and inform people based on my experience working
in pathology, so they can make healthier decisions regarding their
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