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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I started taking shooting lessons.

I put a deadbolt on my bedroom door and my apartment because I was terrified of this person who was crawling through people's windows.

But I thought to myself, what would Scarpetta do?

If this were happening in her jurisdiction, if this were her and these were her cases, what would she do?

And that was the impetus what started Postmortem.

And it's definitely inspired by the Southside Strangling cases, but does not mirror them.

But that was when I decided to let Dr. Scarpetta take over and try to walk in her shoes.

And I remember sitting a very long time at my computer, my word processor, going,

She did da-da-da.

No, no, no.

I da-da-da-da.

No, no, no.

It's got to be she.

I couldn't figure out who's going to tell the story.

Is it she or I?

And I thought, how am I going?

I'm an English major who fled from every science course and can't do math and wouldn't go to funerals.

So what the hell am I doing writing about a chief medical examiner?

But that was the beginning.

Now, postmortem...

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