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Lutnick, Edie
Lutnick, Gary
Lutnick, Howard
Lynch, Michael Francis, multiple identifications of
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans
Maimonides
manner of death
autopsy and
hospital deaths and
suicides and
vehicular deaths and
World Trade Center death certificates and
mass disasters, types of
McFall, Tommy, American Airlines and
McKeel, Kenny
Medicaid
medical doctor (MD), compared to physician assistant
Medical Examiner and Coroner Alert Program (MECAP)
medical examiner(s) (ME):
autopsy and
court testimony and
crime scene and
grief and
improper death certificates and
medicolegal investigators and
multiple gunshots and
office of
physician assistants and
portrayal of
squad
World Trade Center and
medical records unit, as department at Office of Chief Medical Examiner
Medicare
medicolegal investigator(s) (MLI)
court testimony and
crime scene and
families and
levels of
loss rate of
medical examiners and
overtime scandal and
physician assistants as
police acceptance of
postmortem predictions by
training of
cops providing
experiences/lessons during
scheduling of
triage of cases and
World Trade Center and
Memorial Park, family visits to
Metzger, Don
Meyers, Jimmie
misdemeanor homicide, Homicide: Life on the Street and
missing person list:
fraud and
members/participants of
reported missing versus confirmed dead on
tracking number(s) of
unidentified victims on
mummification
Mundorff, Amy
family organization meetings and
resignation of
Munoz, Al
My Cousin Vinny
myosin, rigor mortis and
Natali, Tammie
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), American Airlines Flight 587 and
natural death
neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
New York Bar Association, nonphysical remains death certificate and
New York University Hospital
department of forensic medicine of
nonphysical remains death certificate:
cooperation of agencies and
number issued and
World Trade Center and
Nosair, Sayyid
not-yet interviews, World Trade Center families and
nuclear streaming
NYPD, see police department
Odormatt, John
Office of Corporation Counsel (Law Department):
L tracking number and
nonphysical remains death certificate and
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York (OCME)
appreciation ceremony for
culture of
death certificates and
departments/functions within
DNA lab of
embezzlement case within
end of World Trade Center identification effort
as New York University department of forensic medicine
Orbach, Jerry, Law & Order and
Orthodox Jewish community:
censorship in
traditions of
overtime scandal, medicolegal investigators and
Owens, Patrick
Pataki, George
personal (P) number, from Family Assistance Center
physical remains death certificate, World Trade Center and
physician assistant (PA):
description of
experiences as
medical doctors and
as medicolegal investigators
training of
Pier 92, Emergency Operations Center and
Pier 94, Family Assistance Center and
podiatric X-ray, identification and
police department (NYPD):
acceptance of medicolegal investigators by
departments of:
Accident Investigation Squad
Crime Scene Unit
Homicide Unit
Missing Persons Unit
mind-set about homicide and
rescue and recovery effort and
rookie, dead bodies and
World Trade Center and:
DNA collection and
family organizations and
London memorial service after
recovery effort after
separation of service and civilian bodies after
Positano, Rock, podiatric X-ray and
post-identification interviews:
Authorization to Release form and
World Trade Center families and
postmortem information:
antemortem information and
collection of
postmortem interval (PMI):
body-related changes:
algor mortis and
insects and
livor mortis and
rigor mortis and
crime scene and
non-body-related clues to
predictions by medicolegal investigators of
timeframe, establishing
public health statistics, death certificates influencing
putrefaction
Quincy
Quinlan, Jerry
radio-mounted patrol car (RMP)
recovery, change from rescue
Reported Missing (RM) number, as main tracking number
rescue and recovery searches, police and fire departments and
Ribowsky, Shiya:
personal background
as cantor
documentary participation of
Law & Order and
marriage(s) and
professional background
illness due to overwork and
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and
physician assistant, experience as
recollections of:
babies in bottles
big bones at pizzeria
court testimonies
headless body
hospital deaths
multiple gunshot (trouble in the band) homicide
mummified skeleton in closet
new father’s (box of diapers) homicide
overtime scandal
seventeenth-century bone dig
suicides
sunbather
triple daylight (stairwell and sidewalk) homicide
undercover work of
see also death scenes
rigor mortis
bodies exhibiting
fibers in
legend of
Sagan, Carl
Santora, Christopher, incorrectly identified body of
Savino, Joe, overtime scandal and
scene deaths, compared to hospital deaths
Schwartz, Steve, vital statistics office and
Scoppeta, Nick
Shaler, Robert:
American Airlines Flight crash
antemortem DNA and
closing of World Trade Center site and
family organizations, meeting with
Office of Chief Medical Examiner’s DNA lab and
Shepardson, Tom:
Disaster Mortuary Operational and Rescue Team and
family meetings and
shiva
shored exit, gunshot and
shtetl
St. Johns Hospital
Staten Island, Fresh Kills
Stein, Sidney
Steinbeck, John, The Pearl and
stippling
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS):
cases with
questionnaire about
suicide(s):
death scenes with
Final Exit and
manner of death and
rate of
Sullivan, Katie
family organizations and
Incident Command Center and
resignation of
Surrogate Court, nonphysical
remains death certificate and
tallis
Telephone (T) number, from police
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Thompson, Tommy
tour doctor
tracking numbers for World Trade Center:
Reported Missing (RM) number and
DM number
DX number
L number, from Law Department
P number, from Family Assistance Center
T number, from police department
training:
medicolegal investigators
classroom and field experience
Flomenbaum, Mark and
Mundorff, Amy and
USAir Flight 405, description of
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Ullah, Naeem
unnatural death
vehicular death/homicide, Accident Investigation Squad and
Victim Identification Profile
Victims Compensation Board
vital statistics office
voir dire, court testimony and
Weiner, Jeff and Heidi
World Trade Center:
American Airlines Flight 587 crash and
anti-Semitism and
closing recovery site of
dealing with mass casualties like
computerizing information
helped offered
paperwork
triage and
death certificates and
Disaster Manhattan (DM) number
DX number
families of:
not-yet interviews and
post-identification interviews and
Family Assistance Center for
family counseling at
fraud and
funds for victims of
identification effort and
antemortem and postmortem information
DNA and
cost of
end of
meeting with family organizations about
speakers at
mistakes made in
process/stations used in
separation of service and civilian bodies during
tracking numbers used for
unidentified victims and
Incident Command Center of:
functions of
developing missing persons list
developing special family interaction unit
gathering postmortem information
issuing nonphysical remains death certificates
processing antemortem information
initial impressions of attack on
rescue versus recovery and
wounds, gunshot
yarmulke
yeshivot
Yiddishe
Yom Kippur
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
SHIYA RIBOWSKY is the former director of special projects at the New York City Medical Examiner's Office. He is one of America's most experienced medicolegal investigators. Also the forensics consultant to TV's Law & Order, he lives on Long Island, New York.
TOM SHACHTMAN is the author of numerous books, including Rumspringa: To Be or Not To Be Amish and Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold, and coauthor of the bestsellers by Robert Ressler. He lives in Connecticut.
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