Hope and justice go hand-in-hand, and Dr. Michael Baden delivered each to some households who, at one level, had neither.
The famend forensic pathologist additionally saved an harmless man from a life behind bars.
How he did it’s the topic of the most recent Fox Nation sequence, “The Baden Information.”
“In my lifetime, I carried out greater than 20,000 autopsies. I have been requested by Congress to research the deaths of very well-known folks like President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., however greater than 99% of my work has been on lesser-known instances,” Baden instructed viewers.
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Fox Nation’s “The Baden Information” invitations viewers to observe how Dr. Michael Baden used forensics to show a sequence of instances on their heads. (Fox Nation)
Bringing in Baden helped reawaken some instances that had appeared to go chilly with time, together with one which unfolded in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
After obvious homicide sufferer Ilene Gowan’s household vowed to hunt justice for her, they introduced in Baden to look deeper into her case.Â
“One specific case introduced me out to the Midwest, to an investigation that was extra like a puzzle – a stolen secure, a physique in a ditch, a lacking cellphone…” Baden narrated.
However none of these defined what had occurred to Gowan. The piece that did assist? An abnormal zipper.
The primary episode of “The Baden Information” focuses on that unconventional piece of proof, and the way it helped unravel a devastating fact – Gowan had been strangled, and her “undetermined” reason for demise shifted to “murder.”
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Nicole Schipper, Ilene Gowan’s daughter, vowed to seek out justice for ther mom. (Fox Nation)
“This tells me what occurred. Not who carried out it – that is as much as the police,” Baden stated, holding up a photograph of the marking.
However the investigation had shortly narrowed two suspects to at least one that supplied a damning piece of knowledge.
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Baden additionally assisted with the case of Ellen Andros, a spouse and mom whose demise led the group to forged suspicion on her husband, an Atlantic Metropolis cop who got here dwelling from an evening of ingesting and found her lifeless.Â
As a wholesome 31-year-old lady, proof – significantly small purple markings on her face – pointed to murder. However issues weren’t precisely as they appeared.
Although the group initially suspected the husband of then-presumed homicide sufferer Ellen Andros to be behind her demise, Dr. Baden’s forensic investigation instructed a distinct story. (iStock)
“Forensic pathology gives a solution to converse to the lifeless from past the grave,” Baden stated. “And, on this case, Ellen Andros had loads to say to me.”
The sequence additionally follows Dr. Baden’s involvement within the investigation of the “West Memphis Three,” a case surrounding three teen boys arrested for the homicide of three eight-year-old Cub Scouts in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993.
Years later, Dr. Baden was introduced into the image, and he arrived at a conclusion that spun the unique forensic evaluation on its head.
“The solutions are there. You simply need to know what to search for.”
