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Jun 20, 2023 · In What the Dead Know, she writes with the kind of New York attitude and bravado you might expect from decades in the field, investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, 680 of which were homicides. In the opening chapter, she describes how just from sheer luck of having her arm in a cast, she avoided a boobytrapped suicide.
Jun 20, 2023 · What the Dead Know is the memoir of Barbara Butcher, the second woman to ever be hired as a death investigator in Manhattan (and the first to last over 3 months). This is an in-depth account of her experience and also addresses her personal life struggles as well.
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Jun 20, 2023 · This gap is noteworthy mostly because Butcher’s forays into memoir are heartbreakingly beautiful; their brevity leaves readers wanting more. A gritty, humorous portrait of a strong woman who found sobriety while working with the dead. 2. Pub Date: June 20, 2023. ISBN: 9781982179380.
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Jun 17, 2023 · DON GONYEA, HOST: 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 ...
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What the Dead Know is impossible to put down. A must read, it's destined to be a classic."--Patricia Cornwell "What the Dead Know is an extraordinary testament to an astonishing career. Butcher's vivid descriptions of horror and grief are clear-eyed but compassionate, never voyeuristic.
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Feb 10, 2009 · No, what makes What the Dead Know so powerful is the way it becomes a faceted, complex exploration of grief and loss, one that finds new takes on the topic through all of the book's many characters, through the slow passage of time that the book covers, and maybe most effectively, in the way we wash the marriage of the girls' parents slowly ...
What the Dead Know. Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who—or what—could have lured the two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a ...
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