That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

He is also the Forensic Science Contributor for Fox News Channel. Richard Kuklinski's death. Baden maintains a private forensic pathology consulting practice and is the co-director of the New York State Police Medicolegal Investigation Unit.

He has been the author or co-author of more than eighty professional articles and books on aspects of forensic medicine and also of two popular non-fiction books Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner and Dead Reckoning: the New Science of Catching Killers. Baden (born July 27 1934) is a physician and board-certified forensic pathologist known for his work investigating high-profile deaths and as a host of HBO's Autopsy.