Alan R. Moritz

(1899-1986) born in Hastings, Adams County, lived in Red Cloud. Physician, pathologist, educator, developed in 1955 a separate curriculum for forensic medicine, thus creating a basis for the profession, homicide expert known as "Sherlock Holmes of Medicine". Consult New York Times, April 15, 1945, Sec. 4, p. 9 and The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol 158 (May 28, 1955) 243-244 and Roche Medical Image, April 1967, 14-17 and Cops, Crooks, and Criminologists: An International Biographical Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Facts on File, 1996) 190.

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