In each episode, the actors are upstaged by the science – the shows’ real star. The science also is front and center on the Discovery Channel’s nonfictional "Forensic Files," and "The New Detectives: ...

Douglas County coroner Erik Mitchell, pictured in 2006. A forensic pathologist, Mitchell, a Syracuse, N.Y., native, came to Kansas after working as a medical examiner in Syracuse, Chapel Hill ...