Besides the descriptions of the crime, I find the rest to be speculation at its worst. I believe the show is on the air because there are people in America who will believe anything. Do you lovers of this show believe that the narrator is a real doctor? I thought so.
shareDr Richard Shepherd is the leading forensic pathologist in the UK. But I find the program to be shameless and exploitative.
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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
The narrator and doctor are two different people.
shareAre you speaking of yourself? No I don't. Nor does the narrator even pretend to be a doctor. I enjoy the show, but I take it generally as nothing more than a form of speculative entertainment to be taken at face value.
However, I do believe the "star" of the show, Dr. Richard Shepherd who interprets the autopsy reports with his own spin to be a qualified forensic pathologist. Some of his conclusions are kind of off the wall, even kind of weird at times, but sometimes, he does come up with ideas that are fascinating and unique to explore. It's a kind of fluff that is better than most.
Dr Shepherd is the leading forensic pathologist in the UK. He is a Visiting Professor at City University London, Honorary Consultant at The Royal Liverpool Hospital and a registered UK Home Office Forensic Pathologist. - See more at: http://internationaljusticeconference.com/forensic-expert-speakers/dr-richard-sheppard/#sthash.fzEGtceF.dpuf
The show is meant to have that entertainment sort of quality, so I don't expect it to be a serious documentary. However, Dr. Shepherd is actually a real forensic pathologist. I know sometimes his speculations are kind out of out there though, and other times he just gets things factually incorrect. For example, the other night I was watching Reelz channel and caught the River Phoenix episode. Near the end of the episode, Dr. Shepherd was talking about the four puncture marks on Phoenix's body, and whether those wounds indicate where he had injected drugs via needle. He said something about one of the four punctures that was located on River Phoenix's right arm was suspicious, and how it could be where a left-handed River would have injected himself. It's well-known that River was right-handed, in fact there's a movie he was in where he played a dyslexic child, and he deliberately used his left right hand to write on a chalk board to make his writing resemble how he thought a person with dyslexia would write. Dr. Shepherd did conclude however that the puncture mark on the right arm was just like the other three, one of four punctures that were caused by the injections and IVs that doctors/nurses put into River as they were trying to revive him. That is indeed the same conclusion as the medical examiner who actually performed the autopsy back in 1993, who said that River did not inject any drugs, and the heroin found in his system was ingested via drink. So Shepherd did get it right even though he still made a factual error about the dominant hand of the patient. Quite a few of the episodes have some incorrect factoid like that, and I can be nit-picky about those things. Then there are episodes like the one about Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman that just go really off base, and seriously made me disappointed in the show. I still watch it though, because it's interesting though sometimes you do have to take it with a grain of salt.
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