Post Mortem

How errors by coroners and forensic pathologists have allowed potentially guilty perpetrators to go free and the innocent to be accused of crimes they did not commit. (Aired 2011) Popular television shows have portrayed death investigators as high-tech sleuths wielding the most sophisticated tools...

53 min - True Crime - FRONTLINE PBS

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