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. The work was gritty, demanding, morbid, and sometimes dangerous – she loved it.īutcher (yes, that is her real name, and she has heard all the jokes) spent day in and day out investigating double homicides, gruesome suicides, and most heartbreaking of all, underage rape victims who had also been murdered. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. (NEW 363 BUT)Ĭheck out the synopsis from Goodreads below.Ī riveting, deeply personal memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher.īarbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at the Medical Examiner’s Office in New York City.
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