Barbara Butcher

Barbara Butcher spent 23 years at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner as a death investigator, director of the Forensic Sciences Training Program, and chief of staff. There she investigated more than 5500 deaths, 680 of them homicides. She worked mass disasters including 9/11, the 2004 tsunami, the London Underground bombing, and the crash of Flight 587. She is a frequent podcast guest, speaks at conferences on death investigation and fatality management, and now consults for media producers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is writing a novel. She would also like to be a musician, but is without real talent. (She will try it anyway, just for the fun of learning.)