Autopsy (TV series)

Autopsy is a television series 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)
  • The Case of Joan Bent: 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.
  • The Case of Marybeth Tinning: 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 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)
  • The Case of the Unidentified Torso: The murder of Joyce Klindt, identified by just her pelvic bones.
  • Maggots In Evidence: 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.
  • The Good Doctor: Dr. John Cavaness and the murder of two of his four sons.
  • The Jellyfish Case: The murder of Keeran Carter, who was identified by her breast implants after she washed ashore in a plastic bag.
  • The Angel of Death: The case of an angel of death at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, a nurses aide named Donald Harvey.
  • The Ron Settles Case: Ron Settles, a star college football running back, is arrested, and found hanging in his cell the next day.
  • A Mother's Instinct: The death of Dennis Jurgens, a biological mother hears about her sons death who was adopted and looks to find the killer.
  • The Fun House Dummy: A fun house dummy is found to be the mummified corpse of an 19th century Wild West outlaw named Elmer McCurdy
  • Forensic reconstruction of King Tut's face.

• Autopsy 3: Voices From the Grave (1996)
  • The Black Widow: The attempted murder of Reverend Dwight Moore by his second wife Blanche Taylor Moore
  • The Cheater: The disappearance of Walter Scott near Christmas, found 4 years later in a cistern
  • The Story of Anna
  • A Killer's Signature: The death of Milagros Satero whose killer was found by examining the contents of her stomach
• Autopsy 4: The Dead Speak (1997)
  • The Case of The Missing Cowboy
  • The Crypt Keeper
  • The Michelle Wallace Case
• Autopsy 5: Dead Men Do Tell Tales (1998)
  • A Bad Impression: Death of a pimp, Walter Childs, who murderers were found by finding a piece of gum at the scene of the crime
  • The Mary Ann Powell Case
  • The Robert Curley Case
  • The Roy Kirk Case: A slumlord Roy Kirk hanging himself in the police's van after police found the body of a tenant in his basement, Alice Hoover
• Autopsy 6: Secrets of the Dead (1999)
  • An American Dream
  • The Telltale Imprint
  • The Case of the Severed Hand
  • The Margo Prade Story
  • The Strange Obsession of Dr. Carl von Cosel
  • A Fatal Attraction
• Autopsy 7: Dead Man Talking (2001)
  • Criss/Cross.
  • The Sue Snow Case
  • The Good Doctor
  • Til Death Do Us Part
  • Maggots For The Defense
• Autopsy 8: Dead Giveaway (2002)
  • The Belle of Them All: The Story of Belle Gunness
  • Pure Evil: The Story of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
  • Bloodhound of Detroit
  • The Lady Vanishes
• Autopsy 9: Dead Awakening (2003)
  • A Baby's Cry
  • Love Thy Neighbor
  • A Deadly Fare
• Ask Dr. Baden: An Autopsy Special (2005) (referred to also as Autopsy 10 on the Autopsy website)
• Autopsy 11: Sex, Lies and Murder... (2006)
  • The Collector
  • The Love Bird
• 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

• Autopsy Official Website