Autopsy (television series)

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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.
*Mary Beth 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)

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