Forensic Files
Medical Detectives - Secrets of Forensic Medicine is the export name of the 145 shown in Germany consequences of American crime documentation Forensic Files of the American channel Court TV, erstausgestrahlt 1996-2011. Executive producer and creator of the documentary series is Paul Dowling. The series is produced up to the present date, in total there are over 400 episodes in the original language. The speaker who performs the mission of Forensic Files, Peter Thomas is joking half as " the franchise " dubs, as he has many award-winning Academy Award documentaries, television specials, concerts and commercials lent his voice. In Germany Hubertus Bengsch leads, better known as the voice of William Petersen aka Dr. Gilbert, Gil ' Grissom from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, through the program of Medical Detectives.
Medical Detectives is broadcast in 200 countries, in Germany from VOX (until October 2006; since October 2008, in the night program ). In addition, the series is also repeated on the RTL Pay TV channels RTL Crime.
Topics
Medical Detectives is primarily concerned with the investigation of crimes with the help of scientific methods of interdisciplinary departments of forensic psychology, ballistics, forensic entomology, fingerprinting, forensic odontology, forensic serology, DNA typing, material and fiber analysis, forensic toxicology, forensic handwriting analysis, the physics, biology and chemistry. In the program there investigators, forensic scientists, forensic doctors, other specialists, direct victims and witnesses are interviewed and tell their view of the progress and solution of crime. In addition, topics such as accidents and epidemics are sometimes addressed, their formation from a scientific perspective are interesting and a puzzle the same, which can be solved only with the help of many specialists.
In certain scientific methods ( luminol / Kastle -Meyer test for predetermining from blood ) or evidence - discovery, which are difficult to understand and which is not apparent at first, as they are related to the crime, such as PCR amplification, the RFLP analysis, Southern blot or Algor mortis / rigor mortis / livor mortis are the lay audience and understandable by experts such as Stephen Harbort ( criminologist, case analyst / profiler Commissioner ret. ), Dr. Dietrich Inhülsen ( LKA ), Dr. Andrea Schulte ( Medical Examiner - forensic Medicine at the University of Cologne) or Dr. Mark Benecke ( nationally recognized forensic biologist / forensic entomologist ) explains.
In addition to the U.S., cases from other countries are singled shown, among others, German cases.