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Welcome to the program.

Tonight's program is very, very special to me.

I don't often get starstruck.

In fact, I never get starstruck.

But I'm kind of starstruck about tonight's the guest.

We've got Dr. Cyril Wecht joining us in just a little bit.

And if you've watched any true crime programs, you know, forensic files, cold case files,

or you've seen documentaries about the Jean-Beney Ramsey case, or the

Branch Davidian, uh, Waco fire and, um, and tragedy that, that killed so many there.

Or, uh, the O.J. Simpson case. Or the Kurt Cobain, quote unquote, suicide. If you've watched documentaries about any of the high-profile cases that involved death and under suspicious circumstances,

you probably have seen and are very familiar with Dr. Cyril Weck's work.

And we're going to be talking about that tonight.

He's written a new book called The Life and

and Deaths of Cyril Wecht, Memoirs of America's Most Controversial Forensic Pathologist.

This is going to be a fascinating discussion. There's no way we're going to get to everything

in the course of the 60 minutes or so that we've got to talk

with Dr. Wecht tonight.

But we're going to do our best.

And his book does such a great job of not just telling his story, but telling the story of the

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