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Article: ANATOMY OF AN AUTOPSY LIFELESS BODY YIELDS SECRETS OF BOTH LIVING AND DYING.(Living)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 19, 1991
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Byline: Robert Whitaker Staff writer
There is nothing subtle about this hospital's morgue. Bare cement floor. Tired brown walls. An L-shaped stainless steel table in the middle of the room.
On this day, it is a young woman with auburn hair lying on the table. A sheet covers her face. Her feet, protruding from the sheet, are porcelain white, like a china doll's.
She was killed in a criminal assault 17 hours earlier.
"What we see in the autopsy is a reflection of how the person died," says forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who was called into the case by the Dutchess County medical examiner. "We attempt to reconstruct what happened ...