Barbara Butcher (Oxygen's The Death Investigator with Barbara Butcher) is an expert in medicolegal death investigation, having spent 23 years at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner as Director of Investigations, Disaster Planning, Missing Persons, and as Chief of Staff. She is the creator of the nationally recognized Forensic Sciences Training Program.
She oversaw the remains recovery effort at the World Trade Center after 9/11 and helped manage the response to the crash of Flight 587 and investigated the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
Barbara has worked internationally, consulting for the World Health Organization and responding to the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand, the London Underground bombing, and assisted in disaster planning for the Hong Kong and Norwegian governments.
As a death investigator at OCME, she investigated more than 5500 death scenes and 680 homicides. Her book “What the Dead Know” covering some of her most interesting cases, was published in 2023 by Simon and Schuster. She is also featured in the Netflix series “Homicide New York.”
