David Hunter has his own relationship with the dead. Most often he encounters them when they are in a state of decay or completely charred after a horrific fire. David Hunter is an anthropological forensic scientist, and he examines cadavers in various police investigations. But then he has a very intimate way of communicating with them: he can read from corpses and, after a few glances, tell how far the decomposition has progressed and what work the various maggots and insects have already done on the body. “The body is like an archive that records information about who we are, what we have done, what has been done to us.”
ARD series “Simon Beckett: The Chemistry of Death”: Who Reads the Dead – Media
