Real CSI: Patchy U.S. Death Investigations Put the Living At Risk
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 15:40
in Health & Medicine
Watch Frontline's documentary produced in conjunction with this story tonight. ( Check local listings. ) And listen to NPR's All Things Considered for more on this story. ( Check local listings. ) In detective novels and television crime dramas like "CSI," the nation's morgues are staffed by highly trained medical professionals equipped with the most sophisticated tools of 21st-century science. Operating at the nexus of medicine and criminal justice, these death detectives thoroughly investigate each and every suspicious fatality. [More]
