Michael M Baden was born on July 27,1934 and is an American physician and board-certified forensic pathologist known for his work investigating high-profile deaths and as the host of HBO's Autopsy.
20 Facts About Michael Baden
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Michael Baden was chairman of the House Select Committee on Assassinations' Forensic Pathology Panel that investigated the assassination of John F Kennedy.
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Michael Baden was born in the Bronx, New York, on July 27,1934, to a Jewish family from Russian Poland.
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Michael Baden graduated at the top of his class from the City College of New York in 1955.
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Michael Baden received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine in 1960.
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An article in Oui Magazine quoted him describing how to get away with "high tech murder," but Michael Baden strongly denied making the statement.
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The decision to let him go was rescinded shortly thereafter, as the circumstances of his alleged comments were unclear, but Michael Baden chose to leave the position nonetheless.
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Michael Baden has been a consulting or lead pathologist and an expert witness on a number of other high-profile cases and investigations.
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Michael Baden testified at Sergeant Evan Vela's court martial, and on behalf of Phil Spector at the latter's murder trial, while Baden's wife served as Spector's defense attorney.
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Michael Baden has been hired to conduct private autopsies in a number of cases, including the shooting of Michael Brown and the deaths of New England Patriots football player Aaron Hernandez, civil rights lawyer and politician Chokwe Lumumba, George Floyd and African-American artist Ellis Ruley.
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Michael Baden was a Forensic Science Contributor for Fox News, and a frequent guest on Fox's late-night satirical program Red Eye where he was known as the "Death Correspondent".
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Michael Baden then claimed that Ron Goldman remained conscious and fought with his assailant for at least ten minutes with a severed jugular vein.
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Michael Baden claimed he misunderstood the question but the Goldman's attorney allege he said it because the defense paid him to do so.
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Michael Baden alleged that Baden knowingly gave false testimony because he knew that Ron Goldman's blood was found inside Simpson's Bronco despite Goldman never having an opportunity within his lifetime to be in Simpson's car.
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In 2007, Michael Baden testified on his new theory on the death of music producer Phil Spector's victim.
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Michael Baden sought to provide an alternate explanation for blood on the victim's jacket.
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Michael Baden was hired by the sons of former New Jersey state Transportation Commissioner John Sheridan to work with the county medical examiner doing the autopsy on Sheridan and his wife after their 2014 deaths in a fire at their Skillman home.
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Michael Baden determined his evidence was insufficient to forensically reconstruct the shooting.
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Michael Baden disputed New York City chief medical examiner Barbara Sampson's conclusion that Epstein's death was a suicide, asserting that three fractures in Epstein's neck were more consistent with homicide by strangulation and rarely seen in suicide by hanging.
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Michael Baden later married Linda Kenney Michael Baden, who served as one of Phil Spector's main attorneys during his capital murder trial and replaced Bruce Cutler after his withdrawal from the proceedings.