Can the dead reveal secrets to the living? In this riveting documentary, one of the country's most celebrated forensic pathologists details many of the cases and crimes that he helped solve as a 'detective of death'.

The strangled corpse of a pregnant woman turns up in an ice chunk on the Hudson.

A severed hand is found along a river bank. The corpses of a mother and child are unearthed in a spring thaw.

A boy-scout leader saved by unhatched maggot eggs. An almost-perfect murder in the classic Hitchcock tradition.

A twisted case of sibling sabotage. A missing-person mystery with a sticky solution.

An entire family is poisoned by an unknown intruder. A baby girl is found unconscious in her crib and ends up dying.