Forensic Patologist ‘Doctor Death’ reveals the worst ways people may die: ‘Never trust a rooster’

Roger Byard – whose colleagues refer to him as ‘Doctor’s Death’ – has investigated some of the most traumatic deaths in Australia.

He has also investigated some of the most foreigners.

Pathologist forensic -illegal said the latest Episode of Gary Jubelin’s I catch the killer Podcast about his baptism in the profession, called to investigate the infamous ‘barrels’ Snowtown troops in his first week in call.

“I was called by the head of the great crime one night … and I was so green,” he explained. “I didn’t realize that when the head of the Great Crime calls you, it’s very serious.”

Snowtown’s killers were a series of murders committed by John Justin Bunting, Robert Joe Wagner and James Spyridon Vlassakis between August 1992 and May 1999, inside and around Adelaide. A fourth person, Mark Haydon, was convicted to help dispose of troops. The trial was one of the longest and most published in the Australian legal history, with the contribution of byard forensic evidence contributing to penalties.

But while Snowtown may have been one of the most published cases today worked today, it was not the strangest.

“I have collected the death of animals,” he told Jubelini.

“Deaths from dogs, snakes, sharks, turkeys, mackerel.”

You read it right. Mackerel.

“There was a fishing block in the port of Darwin and the sharks were nearby, so this 25 -kilo mackerel was thrown out of the water and wiped it,” he recalled.

“Wrong place, wrong time,” he continued.

What about the rooster?

“There was an old old lady from the back collecting eggs,” he explains.

“Roosters, I understand. They’re bad creatures. She went for her, and she had varicose veins and she just supported her leg.”

Byard explains that he had a number of deaths coming to his table where people with varicose veins experienced small trauma and ended up dying.

“One case was a cat scratch,” he said. “People don’t understand, and that is why I actually publish these things, it’s not because it’s weird and strange, it’s to let people know that if you have varicose veins and you get a small hole, you have to lie down and put your finger on it and you will survive. [people] They tend to do is wander around panic and they flow to death – completely unnecessary death. “

“But yes,” adds Byard, “Never trust a rooster.”

And while the foreign elements of Byard work can be the creation of the title, there is a darker trauma that lasts.

“No one talks about post-traumatic stress with forensic pathologists, and yet every month of each year we go out in the scenes,” he explained sadly.

“We see scattered bodies, burnt bodies. We see kids who are hungry to death, car accidents, terrible scenes. And we don’t have to plunge into it, we have to describe that our reliability is attacked as we do it.”

He explained that while his trauma was built with every case he is the job, he also realized that he will not always find the answers.

“When I started for the first time, I thought I would find the causes of all these deaths-I was Gung-Ho,” he said.

“And then as I went further and further into my career, I realized that, no, I wouldn’t find answers all the time. And I will have to sit with families and say,” I have no idea. “

“And also, too long they just want to meet the person who came after their baby between the time they saw the last baby, and when they saw their baby in the burial house.”