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As head of the forensic pathology institute at Berlin's top hospital, Michael Tsokos has been helping the police solve crimes for 16 years. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, he talks about the gruesome cases he has experienced and boasts that he knows how to commit a murder without anyone suspecting.
A crime scene in Frankfurt (2009 photo): Tsokos says that in Germany, forensic pathologists are "just one piece of the puzzle. It is team work, pure and simple."
"No publisher would want a book that told the whole truth, the way forensic pathologists experience it daily -- and no reader could be expected to read it," says Tsokos.
In 2009 Tsokos made headlines when he did research on a corpse found in the hospital's cellar that he suspected was the body of communist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, whose body went missing after she was killed in 1919.
