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Lower Manhattan City Morgue – From the outside, the Lower Manhattan City Morgue resembled one of the beehive-structured office buildings that surrounded it. It blended; that had been the point of the redesign. There were black steel doors in the rear of the building. Inside, the tunnels of the morgue were white tiled.[1]
There was a gallery above one of the autopsy labs. There students, rookies, and journalists or novelists with the proper credentials could witness firsthand the intricate workings of forensic pathology. Individual monitors in each seat offered close-up views to those with the stomach for it.[2]
Unattended deaths and bodies involved in crimes were sent to the morgue by the NYPSD. Chief Medical Examiner Morris conducted most of his work in Lab C.[2] Other employees of the Lower Manhattan City Morgue included ME Ty Clipper[3], ME Duluc[4], ME Herbert Finestein[5], ME Foster[6], ME Porter[7], Assistant ME Marlie Drew[8], Sally Riser (Staging Department - usually logged bodies out from there and authorized the transport of bodies)[9], Chambers[10], Sibresky (driver)[8], and Joseph Powell (orderly, killed in Divided in Death)[8]
- Viewing Room One[11]
- Room B was where Thomas X. Brennen’s body was being autopsied in Vengeance in Death.[12]
- Section C, Room 3 was where Tina Cobb’s body was being autopsied in Remember When.[13]
- Bodies were identified with a “temporary stamp on the instep that gave the body a name and number,” according to Holiday in Death.[14]
References:
- ↑ Creation in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22102-0), p. 31; Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 155; Ritual in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22444-1), p. 32; Kindred in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15595-6), p. 55
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rapture in Death (ISBN 0-425-15518-8), p. 68
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 6
- ↑ Remember When (ISBN 978-0-425-19547-5), p. 307
- ↑ Witness in Death (ISBN 0-425-17363-1), p. 122
- ↑ Remember When (ISBN 978-0-425-19547-5), p. 309; Visions in Death (ISBN 0-425-20300-X), p. 38
- ↑ Devoted in Death, Chapter 20
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Divided in Death (ISBN 0-425-19795-6), pp. 12, 314
- ↑ Divided in Death (ISBN 0-425-19795-6), p. 241
- ↑ Loyalty in Death (ISBN 0-425-17140-X), pp. 274-275
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 235
- ↑ Vengeance in Death (ISBN 0-425-16039-4), pp. 46, 51
- ↑ Remember When (ISBN 978-0-425-19547-5), p. 309
- ↑ Holiday in Death, Chapter 2