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What the dead know : learning about life as a New York City death investigator / Barbara Butcher.

Butcher, Barbara, (author.).

Summary:

"Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, an NYC death investigator, the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how, in dealing with death every day, she learned surprising lessons about life--and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982179380
  • ISBN: 1982179384
  • Physical Description: xi, 270 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Angry hanging man -- Luck joy -- How to roll a body -- Partners in crime -- Whitehouse hotel -- Don't try this at home -- Timing is everything -- Baby-faced butchers -- Other city -- In case of emergency -- Slain and the slayers -- Fuck Entenmann's -- Homicide: death at the hands of another -- Suicide: murder of the self -- Radios are down -- Whatever it takes -- That's politics -- They locked my ass up.
Subject:
Butcher, Barbara.
Medical examiners (Law) > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Forensic pathologists > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Genre:
True crime stories.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.

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  • 39 of 42 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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Marion Library BIO BUT (Text) 37810435804918 Adult Biography Checked out 08/25/2026

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