24 Quotes by Michael Baden

Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, .fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.

It takes some learning, ... but we each have our strengths. Linda's a great writer; I'm a great copy editor. I did a lot of copy editing at my college newspapers and other things, which I enjoyed very much. And I never saw anything that couldn't be changed: 'Four score and seven years ago?' What is that? Eighty-seven years ago!

I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with the way things are being done now.

Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.