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What the dead know : learning about life as a New York City death investigator / Barbara Butcher.

by Butcher, Barbara F.

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Thorndike Press/Cengage Company, 2023.

Butcher, Barbara F.

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9798885795203 (large print hc.)

Large print ed.

429 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.

Barbara Butcher, MPH, was Chief of Staff and Director of the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner. She was responsible for overall agency management, strategy, and inter-agency relations. She lives in New York City.

"Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes -- an NYC death investigator -- the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how -- in dealing with death every day -- she learned surprising lessons about life, and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself."

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