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Dear TV Show Medical Examiners: Please Don’t Kiss the Corpse

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Barbara Butcher spent 23 years working for New York City’s Chief Medical Examiner, and she wants you to know, for starters, that DNA is not every crime scene’s pixie dust.

Barbara Butcher
Barbara Butcher
A photo illustration showing a glitched still from Bones, with two medical examiners
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and Fox
Barbara Butcher

Barbara Butcher

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