For most people, the forensic sciences are something reported on the news when a crime is solved through DNA evidence, or used as a plot twist for television shows.
He lives in New York City with his wife and three children..
He is the host of the popular HBO series Autopsy and is the author of a previous book, Unnatural Death.
He is a forensic pathologist and currently codirector of the New York State Police Medico-Legal Investigation Unit.
D., was the chief medical examiner of New York City for more than twenty-five years.
About the Author: Michael Baden, M.
Full of behind-the-scenes drama and surprising revelations, Dead Reckoning is a fascinating look at how forensic Science is changing the way we convict the guilty and free the innocent.
They show how no clue is too small to be analyzed and no case too old to be reopened.
Baden and Roach reveal how a key clue to the killer of Nicole Brown Simpson was lost when her body was moved to the morgue, and why the Jon Benet Ramsey case can never be solved.
Michael Baden and award-winning writer Marion Roach take readers into the laboratory, above the autopsy table, onto the witness stand and out in the field to show how advances in forensic Science can solve crucial questions in a criminal case, often with startling accuracy.
Now famed pathologist and medical examiner Dr.
But behind the crime-scene tape and the doors of the morgue is a world never seen by the public.
For most people, the forensic sciences are something reported on the news when a crime is solved through DNA evidence, or used as a plot twist for television shows