Patricia Cornwell
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744 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Patricia Cornwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that is what began my, quote, life of crime, was running around, you know, the late hours of the night reporting on all the crimes in the Charlotte area and ending up on homicide scenes and talking to rape victims and shooting victims and stabbing victims and all this sort of thing.
And so, but the one thing that I never knew when I was doing the police reporting is when I would go to a crime scene and the body was whisked away,
I didn't know where they're taking it and what are they doing with it.
There wasn't really... This was 1980 and 1981.
There wasn't much known about this sort of thing publicly except for the show Quincy, whenever that was long ago and far away.
When I finally wrote the Ruth Graham biography, I left journalism.
I wrote a biography of my dear friend Ruth Graham.
And then...
I thought, what am I going to do?
I'm going to try writing books about crime.
Maybe that's something I can do.
But I'd never been to a medical examiner's office or a morgue.
So somebody got me an interview at the Richmond Medical Examiner's Office, and I met Dr. Fierro for the first time in 1984.
Wow.
And she gave me a tour of the morgue, and I began doing research there.
I was already trying to write a murder mystery, and I would go talk to her.
I would use their library.
And after about the better part of a year of that, I wanted to see autopsies, and that was not...
going to happen unless I had some sort of validity for being in the autopsy suite.
And I said, well, what would it take to give me that validity?
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