Causes or Cures A Collection of Bizarre Deaths, Including Rasputin’s, with Forensic Pathologist Dr. Roger Byard
"So how'd that person die?"
In this episode of Causes or Cures, I’m joined by forensic pathologist Dr. Roger Byard, an internationally recognized expert who has spent decades investigating deaths that are rare, misunderstood, and often deeply unsettling.
We talk about what really happens at the edges of life and death, including:
- Fatal animal encounters involving kangaroos, roosters, cattle, and donkeys
- Whether pets truly consume their deceased owners, and what the evidence shows
- The real story behind the death of Rasputin and why the myths refuse to die
- Cannibalism, including its different forms and the true cases that shaped how we understand it
- Historical fears of being buried alive and the strange methods once used to confirm death
- The one case that has stayed with Dr. Byard long after the autopsy was finished
Dr. Byard is a repeat guest on Causes or Cures. The topic of his first episode was the forensic elements of killer selfies.
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Topics include forensic pathology, unusual causes of death, animal attacks, Rasputin’s death, cannibalism case studies, and historical death practices.