Post Mortem 

From PBS and Frontline - Every day, nearly 7,000 people die in America. And when these deaths happen suddenly, or under suspicious circumstances, we assume there will be a thorough ... See full summary »

Writers:

Lowell Bergman, Carl Byker

Stars:

Robin Allen, Lowell Bergman, Tim Brown

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Robin Allen	...	Herself - Dpty. District Attorney, LA County, CA
Lowell Bergman	...	Himself - Correspondent
Tim Brown	...	Himself - Coroner, Marlboro County, South Carolina
Vincent DiMaio	...	Himself - M.D., Fmr. Chief Medical Examiner, San Antonio, TX
Marcella Fierro	...	Herself - M.D., Fmr. Chief Medical Examiner, Virginia
Thomas Gill	...	Himself - Forensic Medical Group
Craig Harvey	...	Himself - Chief Coroner Investigator, LA County, CA
Mary Howell	...	Herself - Civil Rights Attorney
Arnold Josselson	...	Himself - M.D., V.P., Forensic Medical Group
James Lauridson	...	Himself - M.D., Fmr. Chief Medical Examiner, Alabama
Michael Miceli	...	Himself - Father of Cayne Miceli
Frank Minyard	...	Himself - M.D., Coroner, Orleans Parish, Louisiana (as Dr. Frank Minyard)
P. Michael Murphy	...	Himself - Coroner, Clark County, Nevada
Louis Pelfini	...	Himself
Ed Prieto	...	Himself - Sheriff Coroner, Yolo County, CA

Storyline

From PBS and Frontline - Every day, nearly 7,000 people die in America. And when these deaths happen suddenly, or under suspicious circumstances, we assume there will be a thorough investigation, just like we see on CSI. But the reality is very different.

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Genres:

Documentary

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Release Date:

1 February 2011 (USA)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

54 min

User Reviews

Opens Our Eyes to an Unknown Problem

This show leads us to be aware of one thing: CSI is a bunch of baloney. I mean, we all know this, but how much do we know this? Much more now!

We see bodies stored in refrigerated trucks rather than proper coolers, and find out the flaws of some places that have elected officials decide how people died, and others that hire incompetent people like Dr. Thomas Gill who consistently get causes of death wrong and sometimes even outright lie. If this show did nothing else, it ruined any positive reputation Gill could ever have.

But this is important: you "call a homicide an accident and a murderer goes free", or you call an accident a murder and an innocent citizen goes to prison! But at least most of these places seemed more well put together than one in particular: in Massachusetts they lost body parts!