Before CSI, before DNA, before forensic teams filled our screens - there was Sir Bernard Spilsbury.

The man who made science the star witness and turned the pathologist into a courtroom celebrity.

In this Dee-Brief, Dee revisits the life and legacy of the 'People’s Pathologist' - a brilliant, controversial figure whose work helped convict murderers like Dr Crippen and George Joseph Smith (the 'Brides in the Bath' killer).

A story of genius, ego, and the price of infallibility - from the man who taught Britain how to read the dead.

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Sources 

• Andrew Rose, Lethal Witness: Sir Bernard Spilsbury – The Truth Behind a Hundred Years of Solved Crimes (2007)
  

• Colin Evans, The Father of Forensics (2014)
  

• Ben Macintyre, Operation Mincemeat (2010)
  

• The Times (1910–1947) – contemporary case reporting
  

• The Lancet – obituary, December 1947
  

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