Autopsy (television series)
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Autopsy is a television series of HBO's America Undercover
America Undercover
America Undercover is a television series of documentaries that airs on the cable television network HBO. Within the series are several sub-series, such as "Autopsy", "Real Sex" and "Taxicab Confessions". The series began in 1983 and, after a brief time being broadcast weekly in 2001, is now...

documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 series. Dr. Michael Baden
Michael Baden
Michael M. Baden is a physician and board-certified forensic pathologist known for his work investigating high-profile deaths and as a host of HBO's Autopsy. He is also the Forensic Science Contributor for Fox News Channel...

, 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
      Marybeth Tinning
      Marybeth Tinning is an American serial killer currently serving a 20 years to life sentence after being convicted of the murder of one of her children. Her case is held to be one of the most extreme cases of Münchausen syndrome by proxy.-Early life:Marybeth Roe was born in Duanesburg, a small town...

      , who was discovered to have killed nine children over 14 years, a stunning example of Munchausen syndrome by proxy
      Munchausen syndrome
      Münchausen syndrome is a psychiatric factitious disorder wherein those affected feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma to draw attention or sympathy to themselves. It is also sometimes known as hospital addiction syndrome or hospital hopper syndrome...

      .
    • Billy Martin
      Billy Martin
      Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin, Jr. was an American Major League Baseball second baseman and manager. He is best known as the manager of the New York Yankees, a position he held five different times...

      , legendary New York Yankees
      New York Yankees
      The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...

       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
      Swiss Alps
      The Swiss Alps are the portion of the Alps mountain range that lies within Switzerland. Because of their central position within the entire Alpine range, they are also known as the Central 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
      Death (personification)
      The concept of death as a sentient entity has existed in many societies since the beginning of history. In English, Death is often given the name Grim Reaper and, from the 15th century onwards, came to be shown as a skeletal figure carrying a large scythe and clothed in a black cloak with a hood...

       at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio
      Cincinnati, Ohio
      Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...

      , a nurses aide named Donald Harvey.
    • The Ron Settles Case: Ron Settles
      Ron Settles
      Ron Settles was a California State University, Long Beach & Banning High School football player who was arrested by the Signal Hill Police Department in 1981. The morning after his arrest, he was found severely beaten and hanging in his jail cell. A huge furor erupted afterwards over the...

      , a star college football
      College football
      College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

       running back, is arrested, and found hanging
      Hanging
      Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain...

       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 1800s Wild West outlaw named Elmer McCurdy
      Elmer McCurdy
      Elmer McCurdy was an Oklahoma outlaw whose mummified body was discovered in The Pike amusement zone in Long Beach, California in December 1976.-Background:...

    • Forensic reconstruction of King Tut
      Tutankhamun
      Tutankhamun , Egyptian , ; approx. 1341 BC – 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty , during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom...

      '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
      Belle Gunness
      Belle Sorenson Gunness was a Norwegian-American serial killer....

    • Pure Evil: The Story of Paul Bernardo
      Paul Bernardo
      Paul Kenneth Bernardo, also known as Paul Jason Teale , is a Canadian serial killer and rapist, known for the sexual assaults and murders he committed with his wife Karla Homolka and the serial rapes he committed in Scarborough.-Early life:Bernardo's mother, Marilyn, was the adopted daughter of a...

       and Karla Homolka
      Karla Homolka
      Karla Leanne Homolka, also known as Karla Leanne Teale , is a Canadian serial killer. She attracted worldwide media attention when she was convicted of manslaughter following a plea bargain in the 1991 and 1992 rape-murders of two Ontario teenage girls, Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, as well as...

    • 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
      John F. Kennedy
      John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

       in 1963
    • The royal Romanov family in Russia in 1918
    • The deaths of Sid Vicious
      Sid Vicious
      Sid Vicious was an English musician best known as the bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols...

       and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen
      Nancy Spungen
      Nancy Laura Spungen was the American girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. Spungen has been the subject of controversy among music historians and fans of the Sex Pistols.-Early life:...

       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

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