Blood On the Table

For almost a century New York City''s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has presided over the dead. Over the years the OCME has endured everything-political upheavals ghastly murders bloody gang wars the 9/11 terrorist attacks and non-stop battles for power and influence-and remains the final authority in cases of sudden unexplained or violent death. . Founded in 1918 the OCME has evolved over decades of technological triumphs and all-too human failure to its modern-day incarnation as the foremost forensics lab in the world investigating an average caseload of over 15000 suspicious deaths a year. This is the behind-the-scenes chronicle of public service and private vendettas of blood in the streets and back-room bloodbaths and of the criminal cases that made history and headlines.