Barbara Butcher, featured investigator in the Dick Wolf Netflix series Homicide New York, spent 23 years in the New York City Chief Medical Examiner’s Office, investigating more than 5500 deaths and working disasters including the 2004 tsunami and 9/11. In this fascinating interview, she shares What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator (her new book), how she landed the job newly sober, and how non-traditional but deeply held spiritual principles carried her through. Her website is https://
Life Lessons from a Death Investigator, Barbara Butcher
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