Michael Baden Biography
Michael Baden is an American physician and forensic pathologist known for being the chief medical examiner of the City of New York from 1978 to 1979. Baden’s independent autopsy findings are often in conflict with the local authorities’ opinions.
Michael Baden Age
Baden is 86 years old as of 2020. He was born on 27 July 1934 in Bronx, New York, United States. He celebrates his birthday on 27 July every year.
Michael Baden Height
Michael stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 m).
Michael Baden Family
Baden has managed to keep his personal life away from the limelight hence he has not disclosed any information about his parents. It is also not known if Baden has any siblings.
Michael Baden Wife(s)
Baden’s first marriage ended in 1997 to Judianne Densen-Gerber, a physician and the founder of the drug treatment program Odyssey House; they had four children, Trissa, Judson, Lindsey, and Sarah. Baden later married Linda Kenney Baden, who was one of Phil Spector’s main attorneys during his capital murder trial and took over for Bruce Cutler after he dropped out.
Michael Baden Net Worth
Baden has an estimated net worth ranging between $5 Million which he has earned through being a physician and forensic pathologist.
Michael Baden Salary
Details of his annual salary are not known to the public.
Michael Baden Education
In 1955, he graduated from City College of New York at the top of his class. In 1960, he earned his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine. At Bellevue Hospital, he completed a pathology residency.
Michael Baden Career
Baden was the chief medical examiner for the City of New York from 1978 to 1979, but he was fired by Mayor Ed Koch after receiving complaints about his work, including memos from district attorney Robert Morgenthau and city health commissioner Reinaldo Ferrer, which criticized Baden for “sloppy record-keeping, poor judgment, and a lack of cooperation.” Robert Tanenbaum, Baden’s former lawyer, defended his autopsy methods in 1979, while also admitting his lack of cooperation with the New York establishment.
Baden was awarded $100,000 in a subsequent wrongful termination suit. Baden was the chairman of the House Select Committee on Assassinations’ Forensic Pathology Panel, which investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Baden was hired as a deputy medical examiner for Suffolk County after that, but he was fired for allegedly making inappropriate comments about how to commit the perfect murder. According to an Oui Magazine article, he described how to get away with “high tech murder,” but Baden strongly denied it.
The decision to fire him was quickly reversed because the circumstances surrounding his alleged comments were unclear, but Baden chose to leave the position anyway. Baden was the chairman of the House Select Committee on Assassinations’ Forensic Pathology Panel, which investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Baden was hired as a deputy medical examiner for Suffolk County after that, but he was fired for allegedly making inappropriate comments about how to commit the perfect murder.
According to an Oui Magazine article, he described how to get away with “high tech murder,” but Baden strongly denied it. The decision to fire him was quickly reversed because the circumstances surrounding his alleged comments were unclear, but Baden chose to leave the position anyway. He owns and operates his own forensic pathology consulting firm. In a number of high-profile cases and investigations, he has served as a consulting or lead pathologist, as well as an expert witness.
He gave testimony at O’s trial. J. Simpson represented the defendant in the court-martial of Sergeant Evan Vela and in the murder trial of Phil Spector, while Baden’s wife represented Spector’s defense. He has been hired to perform private autopsies in a number of cases, including the shooting of Michael Brown and the deaths of New England Patriots football player Aaron Hernandez, a civil rights lawyer and politician Chokwe Lumumba, George Floyd, and African-American artist Ellis Ruley.
Baden was a Fox News Forensic Science Contributor and a regular guest on the late-night satirical show Red Eye as the “Death Correspondent.” Autopsy, Baden’s HBO television series, is also a hit. Some of his opinions have been deemed controversial, particularly when he disagreed with the county coroner’s findings. Baden has been dubbed a “celebrity pathologist” by Sarah Weinmann of New York Magazine.
Michael Baden George Floyd
The family of George Floyd hired Baden and Allecia M. Wilson of the University of Michigan to perform an autopsy after his death following an encounter with Minneapolis Police in late May 2020.
The autopsy determined that the death was a homicide caused by mechanical asphyxia, contradicting the findings of the Hennepin County medical examiner’s autopsy, which determined that the cause of death was “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.”
Floyd’s family asked for a second autopsy after the first one. The autopsy was performed by Michael Baden, a Forensic Pathologist and former New York City Chief Medical Examiner. Neck compression, according to Baden, reduced blood flow to the brain.
Michael Baden Jeffrey Epstein
Baden was hired by Jeffrey Epstein’s brother in October 2019 to observe the autopsy performed by city officials after Epstein died in custody at a federal facility in New York City on sex trafficking charges.
Baden challenged New York City Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson’s conclusion that Epstein committed suicide, claiming that three fractures in Epstein’s neck were more consistent with homicide by strangulation and were uncommon in suicide by hanging.
Michael Baden Books
Baden is the author and co-author of a list of books;
- Unnatural death: confessions of a forensic pathologist by Judith Adler Hennessee and Michael Baden 1991
- Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner by Judith Adler Hennessee and Michael Baden 1989
- Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers by Marion Roach and Michael Baden 2001
- Remain Silent by Linda Kenney Baden and Michael Baden 2005
- Skeleton Justice by Linda Kenney Baden and Michael Baden 2009
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