The Death Investigator with Barbara Butcher

Season

2025

7.4

Veteran NYC Death Investigator Barbara Butcher shares her 20+ years solving major murders, showing how crime scenes and victims' bodies hold crucial clues to cracking cases.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Meet the Butcher

A woman's elevator murder sparks an investigation where Barbara Butcher discovers it triggered a cascade of killings throughout the Bronx.

S1 • E2

Blood on the Eyes

When an unknown body surfaces in the icy East River, Barbara Butcher joins detectives in a race to reconstruct the victims identity using the fragile clues left behind. Pressure mounts when a report comes in that there may be more victims.

S1 • E3

Suburban Fury

In 2012, a tight-knit Las Vegas neighborhood is shattered by the murder of a mother and daughter in their home. Investigators must analyze a crime scene soaked in rage to help stop a killer before they strike again.

S1 • E4

Two Hearts Stopped

When a garbage bag containing a young woman's body is dumped in a NYC tunnel, a rookie homicide detective unravel how a seemingly straightforward crime conceals a chain of forensic contradictions

S1 • E5

Mummified Truth

Buried in the desert lies more than just a body, but a legacy that rides the line of love and hate. Barbara Butcher investigates a murder, where the motive festers across generations before exploding into violence.

S1 • E6

McGuire & Levin

A cherished grandmother is found murdered in her Bronx apartment. Barbara Butcher returns to the scene to retrace every step - and decode how the victim's body holds clues to a carefully hidden motive.

S1 • E7

Tortured Teacher

Barbara Butcher steps back into the 1997 murder of Jonathan Levin, a beloved Bronx teacher, and reveals how her investigation withstood intense scrutiny and helped detectives uncover a truth more disturbing than anyone could imagine.

S1 • E8

Episode #1.8

A missing man's search ends with a morbid discovery: his body, bound and murdered, inside his own car, the brutality is unmistakable, and to Barbara Butcher, so is the staging. A closer look at the evidence reveals a calculated plot.

S1 • E9

The Suitcase Killing

When suitcases of dismembered remains wash ashore in Virginia Beach, the investigation leads back to New Jersey, where a facade of a perfect family man breaks to reveal the reality.

S1 • E10

Blood and Bylines

When a fearless Las Vegas journalist is ambushed outside his home, the surveillance video shocks the city; the body tells a deeper story, one that may reveal what the camera missed.

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The Death Investigator with Barbara Butcher

Season

2025

7.4

Episode List

Meet the Butcher

Blood on the Eyes

Suburban Fury

Two Hearts Stopped

Mummified Truth

McGuire & Levin

Tortured Teacher

Episode #1.8

The Suitcase Killing

Blood and Bylines

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The Death Investigator with Barbara Butcher

Season

2025

7.4

Episode List

Meet the Butcher

Blood on the Eyes

Suburban Fury

Two Hearts Stopped

Mummified Truth

McGuire & Levin

Tortured Teacher

Episode #1.8

The Suitcase Killing

Blood and Bylines

Similar Titles

The Body in the Locker

Murder in a Nutshell: The Frances Glessner Lee Story

The Idaho Student Murders

Murder Down Under: Bodies in the Barrels

Killed Without A Trace