Barbara Butcher: Inside the Mind of a Death Investigator

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With over 5,500 death investigations and 700 homicide scenes behind her, Barbara is one of the most experienced death investigators in the country — a woman who has stood in the middle of humanity’s darkest moments and brought order to chaos.She served as a top investigator for New York City’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner, responded to the 9/11 attacks, helped identify victims of the Thailand tsunami, and now brings her unmatched insight to Oxygen’s new true-crime series, The Death Investigator with Barbara Butcher, airing Saturdays at 9 p.m.In this episode, Barbara sits down with Rachel to break down what a death investigator really does — from how she reads a crime scene the moment…