Barbara Butcher

I saw a story that earlier this week and then a subsequent video that was originally reported in The New York Post.

And this her name is Barbara Butcher.

She was the assistant medical examiner during September, during the 9-11 attacks.

And one of the things that she talked about in this story was that her boss, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch, called a meeting and wanted to make it absolutely explicit that the people who were the so-called jumpers, first of all, he said, never use that term.

Yeah.

So anyway, I just wanted to pass that along.

Really terrific story by Barbara Butcher.

And I think a salient point that has even after 25 years, I now know not to use that term.

I was immensely proud of everything that went on on Friday, and so your, your comments were, uh, heartfelt and appreciated.

Before we go, before we leave the 25th anniversary of September 11, I, I read so much material over the weekend, essays, thought pieces, and so forth, but there was one that really caught my attention, made me think about an issue that I'd, I'd never considered before, and Barbara Butcher wrote it for the New York Post.

It begins this way: "I was working for New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner when the unthinkable happened on September 11, 2001.

As a death investigator, I would usually go to an apartment or to the streets to investigate a homicide, a suicide, or an accidental death.

Now it was my job to work the pile.

That is, to recover and catalog the shattered human remains found in the burning, smoking rubble of the World Trade Center." Barbara Butcher is the author of What the Dead Know, covering some of her most interesting cases, that was published in 2023 by Simon & Schuster.

She's featured in the Netflix series Homicide New York.

You can watch her Oxygen new crime se- crime series titled The Death Investigator with Barbara Butcher.

So this is the final episode, and I think what...

Barbara Butcher is Eric Shaw Quinn's best friend.

She unseated me.

Love Barbara Butcher.

He loves Barbara Butcher.

That is not true.

You have not been unseated.

And they demonstrate how this event kind of brought them all together.

This is written in the New York Post today, and it is written by a former official at the New York City Medical Examiner's Office.

Her name is Barbara Butcher.

She says it was impossible to detach from those lonely tragedies to stop the thoughts of those whose victims may have felt in their last moments at the World Trade Center.

As Dr. Charles Hirsch, who was then the medical examiner, spoke to us about those who died in the impact zone where the planes hit, someone in the group made a reference to, quote, the jumpers, the suicides.

They sent us to the coroner's office.

He was a wonderful man, by the way, but the person we had to deal with was Barbara Butcher, and then they send us to Fr-

Wait, I'm sorry, that was her name? Her name.

And then we go to Fresh Kills, and we deal with Dennis Diggins.

is one of the darkest things I've actually said, and now it lives on an Instagram comment.

So I posted a video of me talking with, I think it was Barbara Butcher.

She's been on Netflix, Homicide.

She's incredible.