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In 1987, forensic pathologist Dr. Sarah Whitmore risked her career to challenge a suicide ruling that everyone wanted to forget. Her relentless pursuit of microscopic evidence in the death of a lighthouse keeper would expose a web of corruption spanning from small-town police to state officials, proving that sometimes the dead speak loudest through science.
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