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Jun 20, 2023 · Now featured in the five-part docuseries on Netflix, Homicide: New York. A “remarkably candid and sensitive” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher.
Jun 20, 2023 · What the Dead Know is the memoir of Barbara Butcher, the second woman to ever be hired as a death investigator in Manhattan (and the first to last over 3 months). This is an in-depth account of her experience and also addresses her personal life struggles as well.
A “remarkably candid and sensitive” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher.
Jun 20, 2023 · In What the Dead Know, she writes with the kind of New York attitude and bravado you might expect from decades in the field, investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, 680 of which were...
What the Dead Know. Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who—or what—could have lured the two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a ...
Jun 20, 2023 · A sober, queer woman describes how becoming a New York City medicolegal examiner changed her life. In the early 1990s, after a particularly devastating drunken night, Butcher decided to get sober.
In What the Dead Know, she writes with the kind of New York attitude and bravado you might expect from decades in the field, investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, 680 of which were homicides. In the opening chapter, she describes how just from sheer luck of having her arm in a cast, she avoided a boobytrapped suicide.
