Repercussions? In 2005, Barbara Butcher was accused of taking a morbid momento from Ground Zero. She has since been promoted to Chief of Staff at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner A high ranking official at New York’s medical examiner’s office is accused of taking a piece of the September 11th plane wreckage as a morbid souvenir, but instead of a punishment she’s recently received a promotion. A witness claims Barbara Butcher, Director of Forensic Investigations at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, ‘excitedly’ took home a recovered piece of a plane’s door. Former co-worker Kenneth Dotson, alleged in 2005 that Butcher was thrilled as someone from Ground Zero passed off the piece of wreckage to her as she oversaw World Trade Center victim recovery and identification. Now she’s overseeing the entire department.
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Barbara Butcher is now Chief of Staff at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, but in 2005 she admitted to taking the door handle 'for a day or two' before retuning it
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'I would have been fired': Co-worker Kenneth Dotson says he was harassed after reporting Butcher
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