Dr. Shelly and The Brain | PREVIEW

0:02 This is a preview for the second bonus episode from season five, the Execution of Daniel Shaver. In this episode, we delve into the history of misconduct at the Amercopa County Medical Examiner's Office, specifically a one doctor Mark Shelley. Doctor Shelley is the one who actually performed the autopsy on Daniel Shaver and gave expert testimony during the trial, but this episode is about events that occurred seven years prior, when doctor Shelley was working as a naval doctor. On a fateful winter night in two and eleven, doctor Shelley made a decision that would make national headlines, cost him his job, and put a stain on his career forever. If after this teaser you want to hear the full episode, it'll be on Patreon ad free, where you can also hear every episode in our back catalog, also add free in at pristine three hundred and twenty kilobytes per second audio quality. I'm also making an effort now to put out more consistent exclusive Patreon episodes. My goal is twice a month bonus content of some kind, whether that's an interview, after show or a bonus episode like this one. The support we get on there helps us to continue making this kind of independent, deep dive true crime content. Every single dollar truly makes a difference. Thank you to everyone who supports us. Become a dark Sider.

1:30 Sign up today Patreon dot com slash tapes from the Dark Side. I'll also put a link in these show notes side descriptions of violence than sexuality. The listener discretion is advised. I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted. I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life. I saw how the worm inherited the wonders the eye brain. In eighteen eighteen, author Mary Shelley, at the ripe age of twenty, released what would become one of the most revered horror fiction novels of all time and perhaps the first true science fiction novel. It was called Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus. The titular character one Doctor Frankenstein, creates a centing being through experimentation

3:00 on the human brain and the subsequent unsavory application of this forbidden knowledge. His creation, commonly referred to as the Monster, was the work of doctor Frankenstein, just as the fictional character of doctor Frankenstein was the work of author Mary Shelley. Nearly two hundred years later, the true story of another individual with the same surname, a doctor Mark Shelley, would find himself in a situation of his own creation, one much different than the fictional story of Frankenstein, but yet also involving a disembodied brain. The decisions that the real life doctor Shelley made on that fateful night in the winter of two thousand and eleven would come to forever meyer his career in scandal. I've come to believe that it's not just a saying. Truth really is stranger than fiction, and after the story, I think you'll agree. Today, I want to share with you the real story of doctor Mark Shelley, once esteemed and decorated medical examiner for the United States Navy, and his downfall to disgrace Doctor on this tape from the Dark Side.