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Autopsy 9: Dead Awakening |
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This follow-up to eight of HBO's most popular America Undercover documentaries explores more criminal cases solved through the expertise of forensic pathologist, Dr. Michael Baden and other specialists.
Autopsy 9: Dead Awakening introduces a compelling new regular segment called "Ask Dr. Baden," in which the pathologist investigates an actual case submitted online at the Autopsy site on hbo.com. (see below to submit a case).
The cases include:
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A Baby's Cry
Salt Lake City: Currie Nieman was a single mother with two boys and a 10-month-old girl, Ranie. In 2001 Currie married Garritt Anderson, who had two kids of his own. One day, Kurrie came home from the dentist and was told by her husband that Ranie was "acting kind of weird." In fact, the infant lay unconscious in her crib, next to her brother. Flown to the hospital, Ranie was declared brain dead and embalmed.
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Love Thy Neighbor
In 1988, 42-year-old Peggy Carr, a two-time divorcee on her third marriage, was hospitalized in Florida and eventually diagnosed with Thallium poisoning; she later slipped into a coma and died. The woman's two sons also became gravely ill from Thallium poisoning. In scouring the family's home, police found several empty Coke bottles that tested positive for Thallium.
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A Deadly Fare
One spring night in 1990, Detective Nigel Paterson of the Banff Police Department in Alberta, Canada, found the bloody body of a cab driver named Lucie Turmel on the street. Police suspected that the killer might be a man named Ryan Love, but Love refused to give up a sample of his blood.
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In Your Face
West Valley City, Utah: In 2000, two men were killed and another seriously injured when their Jeep was slammed from behind by a truck traveling 70 miles per hour - a truck whose driver fled the scene after the accident.
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Thread of Evidence
Beginning in 1987, a string of women (most of them prostitutes) were killed along US 40 near Wilmington in distressingly similar fashion: they'd been beaten to death and their nipples mutilated by a "gripping tool."
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Ask Dr. Baden
Among the hundreds of emails written to Dr. Baden on the HBO website was one from a woman named Donna Martino (a pseudonym), who recalls finding the bodies of her mother and father on visiting their home about a year ago. An investigator for the Medical Examiner's office told the family that in his opinion, her mother died of a heart attack, and her father was so distraught that he killed himself by cutting his carotid artery. Donna did not buy this story, and asked Dr. Baden to review the autopsy report, case X-rays and slides. Based on the forensic evidence, Dr. Baden believes that Donna's mother was strangled to death, meaning that the case is now a homicide.
VIEW CLIP: Watch the "Ask Dr. Baden" video segment
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