Dr. Michael Baden Biography
Michael Baden (Full name- Michael M. Baden) is an American physician and board-certified forensic pathologist who was born in New York, New York, United States. He is best known for hosting HBO’s Autopsy and investigating high-profile deaths. Baden is considered to be controversial in his line of work and has on several occasions been on the opposite side of many experts.10 Quick Facts About Michael Baden
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- Name: Michael Baden
- Age:87 years
- Birthday: July 27
- Zodiac Sign: Leo
- Height: Average
- Nationality: American
- Occupation: Physician and Board-Certified Forensic Pathologist
- Marital Status: Married
- Salary: Under Review
- Net worth: $8 Million
From 1978 to 1979, he was the chief medical examiner of the City of New York. Among Baden’s many high profile investigation, is the assassination of John F. Kennedy in which he was the chairman of the House Select Committee on Assassinations’ Forensic Pathology Panel that conducted the investigation.
Michael Baden Age
Baden was born on July 27, 1934, in New York, New York, United States. Baden is 87 years old.Michael Baden Spouse
Baden was married to Judianne Densen-Gerber, a physician and founder of the drug treatment program Odyssey House; they had three children, Sarah, Tessa, and Lindsey. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1997. Currently, Michael Baden is married to Linda Kenney Baden. Kenney is an attorney who served as one of Phil Spector’s main attorneys during his capital murder trial. She replaced Bruce Cutler after his withdrawal from the proceedings. Together, the couple has four children.Michael Baden Education
He graduated in 1955 at the top of his class from the City College of New York. In 1960, he studied at New York University School of Medicine where he graduated with a degree in medicine.Michael Baden HBO
Baden is famous for investigating high-profile deaths in the line of his work and as the host of HBO’s Autopsy. He is the Forensic Science Columnist for FOX News Channel and was a regular guest on Fox News’s late-night ridicule program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld where he was known as the Death Correspondent. Michael Baden has been an author or co-author of more than 80 professional articles and books on aspects of forensic medicine and two non-fiction books, Confessions of a Medical Examiner, Unnatural Death, and Dead Reckoning, The New Science of Catching Killers. Together with his wife, he is also the author of two forensic thrillers, Remains Silent and Skeleton Justice. He worked together with journalists, producers, and private legal teams to investigate the deaths of the lost Tsar Nicholas, John Belushi, the president of Poland, Nicole Liz McPherson, Brown Simpson, Kathleen Savio, and Eric Garner, who died in an alleged chokehold on the streets of New York City.
Michael Baden J F Kennedy
From 1978 to 1979, Baden was the chief medical examiner of the City of New York. He was director of the House Select Committee on Assassinations’ Forensic Pathology Panel that investigated the murder of John F. Kennedy. Baden was also the Chief Forensic Pathologist for the New York State Police.Michael Baden O J Simpson
Baden has been a lead or consulting pathologist and an expert witness on a number of other high-profile cases and investigations. At Sergeant Evan Vela’s court-martial, he testified at the trial of O. J. Simpson. Baden also testified at Phil Spector’s murder trial. He has additionally been employed to conduct private postmortems in a number of cases, including the gun down of Michael Brown and the deaths of New England Patriots football player Aaron Hernandez and civil rights lawyer and politician Chokwe Lumumba.Michael Baden Martin Luther King Jr.
He chaired the federal committee that re-investigated the death of Martin Luther King Jr. where he said that the assassin was James Earl Ray.Michael Baden Net Worth
Baden started his career in the early 1960s, soon after graduating from the New York University School of Medicine in 1960. He has earned huge income from his career as a pathologist both in private and public practice. Baden is estimated to have a net worth of $8 Million.Michael Baden Controversy
In 1979, after just 11-months as the chief medical examiner of New York, Baden was fired by Mayor Ed Koch. He was fired on the basis that he had lost evidence and worked poorly with prosecutors. Baden later won $100,000 in a wrongful termination case, but he was forced out of the office nonetheless.Michael Baden Books
Skeleton Justice, 2009. Remains Silent, 2005. Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers, 2001. Unnatural Death, 1991. Unnatural Death an S/Wx12, 1991. Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner, 1989.Frequently Asked Questions About Michael Baden
Who is Michael Baden?
He is an American physician and board-certified forensic pathologist who was born on July 27, 1934, in New York, New York, United States.How old is Baden?
Baden is 85 years old as of 2019 and was born on July 27, 1934, in New York, New York.
