Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

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not applicable

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Literary text for sound recordings

memoirs

Main title

What the dead know

Medium

compact disc

Oclc number

1379428764

Responsibility statement

Barbara Butcher

Sub title

learning about life as a New York City death investigator

Summary

Barbara Butcher was recovering from addiction problems and unhappy relationships when she landed a job at the Medical Examiner's Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. The work was gritty and demanding, sometimes dangerous. And she loved it. In a voice full of attitude, a real New Yorker some might say, Barbara writes about what it was like not to go a day on the job without seeing a victim of homicide or some other violent crime. She investigated double homicides, gruesome suicides, and most heartbreaking of all, underage rape victims who had also been murdered. Butcher describes working at the world's largest morgue following 9/11, where she and her colleagues initially relied on family members' descriptions to help distinguish among the 21,900 body parts of the victims

Target audience

adult

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Learning about life as a New York City death investigator

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