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In 1918, New York City hired its first scientifically trained medical examiner, Charles Norris. Over the course of a decade and a half, Norris and his extraordinarily driven and talented chief toxicologist, Alexander Gettler, would turn forensic chemistry into a formidable science, sending many a murderer to the electric chair and setting the standards that the rest of the country would ultimately adopt.
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00:00In a time when poison was prevalent.
00:03All over the city, more and more people were dying.
00:06They revolutionized criminal investigation.
00:09Norris and Gettler were the forerunners of CSI.
00:13Multiple stab wounds. Half a woman's body.
00:16Pretty cut and dry.
00:17She died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
00:20Sorry?
00:21The Poisoner's Handbook on American Experience.
00:30Eifica a mean
00:30Como said
00:30Enclencinowo

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