11 Facts About Joshua Perper

Joshua Perper was a noted forensic pathologist and toxicologist.

Joshua Perper served as the Chief Medical Examiner of Broward County, Florida for seventeen years, during which time he conducted autopsies on a number of famous individuals, including Anna Nicole Smith.

Joshua Perper served as Associate Medical Examiner, Senior Research Fellow and then Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore, Maryland from 1969 to 1971.

Between 1971 and 1994, while living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Perper was a toxicologist and then Chief Forensic Pathologist in the Allegheny County Coroner's Office, serving under Cyril Wecht.

Wecht initially recommended that Joshua Perper succeed him, and indeed Joshua Perper held the title of Acting Coroner until Thornburgh appointed Sanford Edburg to succeed Wecht.

Joshua Perper did resign as Allegheny County Coroner in 1994, after he was appointed Chief Medical Examiner of Broward County, Florida by Governor Lawton Chiles.

Joshua Perper performed the autopsy on Krissy Taylor, the 17-year-old model who died of bronchial asthma in 1995, after collapsing in her parents' home.

Joshua Perper performed the autopsy of Steve Bechler after the pitcher's death on February 17,2003.

Joshua Perper found that Bechler was overweight, out of shape, was not yet accustomed to the warm and humid weather in South Florida, was on a primarily liquid or semi-liquid diet, did not feel well or eat the night before he collapsed and had high blood pressure, was using Xenadrine and had abnormal liver functions.

Joshua Perper had significant involvement in the hearing deciding the fate of her body and has made numerous TV appearances on Nancy Grace and various other shows in relation to this.

Additionally, in 2011, his 49-year-old son, Dr Zvi Harry Joshua Perper, was arrested and charged with racketeering and drug trafficking.