Dr. Shelly and The Brain | PREVIEW
This is a preview for the second bonus episode from S5: The Execution of Daniel Shaver. In this episode, we delve into the history of misconduct at the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office. Specifically, a one: Dr. Mark Shelly.
Dr. Shelly...
This is a preview for the second bonus episode from S5: The Execution of Daniel Shaver. In this episode, we delve into the history of misconduct at the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office. Specifically, a one: Dr. Mark Shelly.
Dr. Shelly performed the autopsy on Daniel Shaver and even gave testimony during the trial of Mitch Brailsford. But this episode is about events that occurred much earlier. In fact, seven years earlier—when Dr. Shelly was working as a naval doctor.
On that fatal winter night in 2011, Dr. Shelly made a decision that would make national headlines, cost him his job, and forever stain his otherwise pristine reputation.
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This is a preview for the second
bonus episode from season five, the Execution
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of Daniel Shaver. In this episode, we delve into the history of misconduct
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at the Amercopa County Medical Examiner's Office, specifically a one doctor Mark Shelley.
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Doctor Shelley is the one who actually
performed the autopsy on Daniel Shaver and gave
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expert testimony during the trial, but
this episode is about events that occurred seven
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years prior, when doctor Shelley was
working as a naval doctor. On a
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fateful winter night in two and eleven, doctor Shelley made a decision that would
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make national headlines, cost him his
job, and put a stain on his
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career forever. If after this teaser
you want to hear the full episode,
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it'll be on Patreon ad free,
where you can also hear every episode in
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our back catalog, also add free
in at pristine three hundred and twenty kilobytes
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per second audio quality. I'm also
making an effort now to put out more
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consistent exclusive Patreon episodes. My goal
is twice a month bonus content of some
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kind, whether that's an interview,
after show or a bonus episode like this
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one. The support we get on
there helps us to continue making this kind
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of independent, deep dive true crime
content. Every single dollar truly makes a
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difference. Thank you to everyone who
supports us. Become a dark Sider.
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Sign up today Patreon dot com slash
tapes from the Dark Side. I'll also
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put a link in these show notes
side descriptions of violence than sexuality. The
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listener discretion is advised. I saw
how the fine form of man was degraded
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and wasted. I beheld the corruption
of death succeed to the blooming cheek of
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life. I saw how the worm
inherited the wonders the eye brain. In
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eighteen eighteen, author Mary Shelley,
at the ripe age of twenty, released
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what would become one of the most
revered horror fiction novels of all time and
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perhaps the first true science fiction novel. It was called Frankenstein or the Modern
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Prometheus. The titular character one Doctor
Frankenstein, creates a centing being through experimentation
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on the human brain and the subsequent
unsavory application of this forbidden knowledge. His
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creation, commonly referred to as the
Monster, was the work of doctor Frankenstein,
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just as the fictional character of doctor
Frankenstein was the work of author Mary
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Shelley. Nearly two hundred years later, the true story of another individual with
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the same surname, a doctor Mark
Shelley, would find himself in a situation
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of his own creation, one much
different than the fictional story of Frankenstein,
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but yet also involving a disembodied brain. The decisions that the real life doctor
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Shelley made on that fateful night in
the winter of two thousand and eleven would
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come to forever meyer his career in
scandal. I've come to believe that it's
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not just a saying. Truth really
is stranger than fiction, and after the
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story, I think you'll agree.
Today, I want to share with you
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the real story of doctor Mark Shelley, once esteemed and decorated medical examiner for
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the United States Navy, and his
downfall to disgrace Doctor on this tape from
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the Dark Side.
