Autopsy (TV series)

"Autopsy" is a television subseries of HBO's "America Undercover" documentary series. Dr. Michael Baden, a real-life forensic pathologist, is the primary analyst, and has been involved personally in many of the cases that are reviewed.

Episodes and cases

*"Autopsy: Confessions of a Medical Examiner" (1994)
**Joan Bent, murdered in 1986, how analysis of the contents of her stomach caught her killer.
**Finding a tattooed arm in the belly of a shark helps solve a missing persons' case.
**Marybeth Tinning, who was discovered to have killed nine children over 14 years, a stunning example of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
**Billy Martin, legendary New York Yankees manager who died in 1989 in a single-car accident, and how Dr. Baden discovered that he wasn't the one behind the wheel.
**The Attica Prison riots, and how Dr. Baden discovered that thirteen inmates were murdered by prison guards in a massacre cover-up.
**The Green Haven Prison murder, how Dr. Baden used dental records to find the killer of a female prison guard.
**LaToya Thomas, a 13-year-old girl convicted of strangling her mother to death, and how Dr. Baden helped exonerate her.
**Analysis of a preserved corpse found in the Swiss Alps are determined to be 5,000 years old.

*"Autopsy 2: Voices From the Dead" (1995)
**A bathtub filled with a skeleton, bloody water and maggots leads examiners to analyze the maggots to determine cause of death; suicide by barbiturate overdose.
**Dr. John Cavaness and the murder of one of his four sons.
**The murder of Keerans Carter, who washed ashore on a beach in a plastic bag.
**The case of an angel of death in Cincinnati, Ohio
**Ron Settles, a star college football running back, is arrested, and found hanging in his cell the next day.
**A fun house dummy is found to be the mummified corpse of an 1800s Wild West outlaw.
**Forensic reconstruction of King Tut's face.

*"Autopsy 3: Voices From the Grave" (1996)
*"Autopsy 4: The Dead Speak" (1997)
*"Autopsy 5: Dead Men Do Tell Tales" (1998)
*"Autopsy 6: Secrets of the Dead" (1999)
*"Autopsy 7: Dead Man Talking" (2001)
*"Autopsy 8: Dead Giveaway" (2002)
*"Autopsy 9: Dead Awakening" (2003)
*"Ask Dr. Baden: An Autopsy Special" (2005) (referred to also as "Autopsy 10" on the "Autopsy" website)
*"Autopsy 11: Sex, Lies and Murder..." (2006)
*"Autopsy: Post Mortem" (2008)
**The assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963
**The royal Romanov family in Russia in 1918
**The deaths of Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen four months apart in 1978-9
**The double-murder case involving O.J. Simpson in 1994
**Illnesses and deaths due to exposure to toxic-chemicals by first responders at Ground Zero in the hours and days after 9/11

External links

* [http://www.hbo.com/autopsy/ "Autopsy"] Official Website