Michael Baden - Professional Career

Professional Career

Baden was the Chief Medical Examiner for the City of New York from 1978 to 1979.

He has been a consulting/lead pathologist and an expert witness on a number of high-profile cases and investigations including:

• Chairman of the Forensic Pathology Panel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations that reinvestigated the John F. Kennedy assassination.
• Giving testimony at the trial of O. J. Simpson.
• Investigating the remains of Czar Nicholas II and family members.
• Sid Vicious's death.
• Claus von Bülow's criminal trial.
• John Belushi's death.
• Lisa McPherson's death.
• As a defense witness in Phil Spector's murder trial. He was reportedly paid $250,000. Baden's wife was legal co-counsel for Spector at the time.
• Richard Kuklinski's death.
• Kathleen Savio's death.
• Sergeant Evan Vela's court martial.
• Gathering evidence against Byron De La Beckwith, who was facing his third trial for murder in the death of Medgar Evers. De La Beckwith was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Baden maintains a private forensic pathology consulting practice and is the co-director of the New York State Police Medicolegal Investigation Unit.

On August 18, 2008, he appeared as a guest on the Opie and Anthony Show. On June 11, 2009, it was reported that Baden was hired by the family of the late actor David Carradine to investigate the cause of Carradine's death in a Bangkok hotel room. According to press reports, Baden's initial conclusion is that Carradine's death was not the result of suicide. He is also a frequent guest on Fox News' late-night satire program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld where he is known as the "Death Correspondent".