This column is about Cyril Wecht, a giant in the legal and medical professions: doctor, lawyer, forensic pathologist, former coroner of Allegheny County, expert witness in mysterious death cases and concert violinist. He is 90 years old and is still actively practicing in Pittsburgh as a forensic pathologist. His son, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht, said, “My Dad is still working at his profession. … He continues to do many autopsies every week, often multiple autopsies in a single day.”

In the opinion of many attorneys, Cyril Wecht is one of the major reasons the science of forensic pathology is now so important in the fact-finding process of the law.