The Removal Men

We have all seen the CSI-type TV shows characterized by the beautiful women with their ample bosoms and low-cut tops and the dashing, debonair men who find the one hair follicle that will solve the case. Then, after they are through with the crime scene, in the background we see the two ME techs taking the body away on a stretcher.

I was one of those guys working as a removal man (for that is what they are called) for a company that contracted for the Boston Medical Examiner’s Off