GONYEA: Barbara Butcher is the author of "What The Dead Know: Learning About Life As A New York City Death Investigator." Barbara, thanks for joining us today. BUTCHER: Thank you, Don.

Within the first hour or so of WHAT THE DEAD KNOW: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator (Simon & Schuster Audio, 9 hours, 47 minutes), the author and narrator Barbara Butcher ...

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As a New York City death investigator, Barbara Butcher investigated countless cases, from homicides to natural deaths. NPR's Don Gonyea talks with Butcher about her memoir, "What the Dead Know." ...

Dead men do tell tales. You just have to listen. In the early 1990s, a newly sober Barbara Butcher began her career as a death investigator, or medicolegal examiner, in Manhattan. She was the first ...