Werner U. Spitz is a forensic pathologist and the author and editor of a leading textbook in the field: Medicolegal Investigation of Death (Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 2020 5th ed.) Over his 50+ year career, he has practiced in Israel, Germany and the United States. Internationally recognized for his expertise, Dr. Spitz has testified and consulted hundreds, if not thousands, of times across the U.S. and Canada, including in high-profile matters such as: Frederick Goldman v. O.J. Simpson (California); State v. Casey Anthony (Florida); the Somalia affair (Canada); with the Boulder police regarding the death of Jon Benet Ramsey (Colorado); before the House of Representatives in the matter of John F. Kennedy (D.C.); and regarding the death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick (Pennsylvania). Dr. Spitz has served as the Chief Medical Examiner in Detroit and Macomb County, Michigan, as well as the Deputy Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore, Maryland, and he has lectured across the United States, and in Canada, France, Germany, Israel, South America, Mexico and South Africa. His research has been grant-funded, including from the National Institute of Health and other sources for work on the topics of drowning and SIDS. Dr. Spitz graduated from the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School in 1953, and he remains very busy working full time in his field of endeavor at his office in St. Clair Shores, Michigan.