Dr. Michael M. Baden is a Board-certified, forensic pathologist who is a co-Director of the New York State Police Medicolegal Investigation Unit. From 1961 to 1986, Dr. Baden worked in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York City and was the Chief Medical Examiner from 1978 to 1979. He was also the Deputy Chief Medical Examiner for Suffolk County from 1981 to 1983. He has held professorial appointments at Albert Einstein Medical School, Albany Medical College, New York Law School and John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

He was the chairman of the Forensic Pathology Panel of the U.S. Congress Select Committee on Assassinations that investigated the deaths of president John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Baden has been involved as an expert in forensic pathology in many cases of international interest including:

• The examination of the remains of Tsar Nicholas of Russia and his family
• The Claus Von Bulow murder trial
• Marlon Brando's son's murder trial
• Dr. Baden has been involved as an expert witness for the defense in the O.J. Simpson trial
• The re-autopsy of Medgar Evers, Civil Rights leader
• The death of Billy Martin (New York Yankees)
• The deaths of Mary Beth Tinning's nine children
• The re-examination of the Lindberg Kidnapping and murder
• Autopsies of the victims of TWA Flight 800

During his career, Dr. Baden has been published in numerous national and international medical journals. He also published a factual account of several of his cases in the book Unnatural Death, Confessions of a Medical Examiner and was the subject for 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 HBO specials that highlighted several of his interesting cases demonstrating the value of forensic sciences allied with solid police investigative techniques in homicide investigation.