李昌鈺
The eleventh of thirteen children, Lee was born in Rugao city, Jiangsu province, mainland China, and fled to Taiwan at the end of the Chinese Civil War in the late 1940s. His father, who was traveling separately from the rest of the family, perished when the passenger ship Taiping sank on 27 January 1949.
He went on to study science and biochemistry at New York University and earned his Master of Surgery in 1974 and Ph.
Growing up fatherless, Lee never aspired to attend university. Instead, he went on to graduate in 1960 from the Central Police College with a degree in Police Science. (Central Police College is a "service academy" in Taiwan, and it is tuition-free, with living stipend provided) Lee then began his work with the Taipei Police Department, where he rose to the rank of captain at age 25, the youngest in Taiwanese history.
In 1972, after coming to the United States to pursue his education, he earned a Bachelor of Surgery in Forensic Science from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New New York
Doctorate. in Biochemistry in 1975. Current career
Lee is currently the Chief Emeritus for Scientific Services for the State of Connecticut and an occasional lecturing professor of forensic science at the University of New Haven, where he has helped to set up the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science and he is also a visiting professor at the East China University of Political Science and Law.
Previously, he had served as Connecticut"s Commissioner of Public Safety, the Director of the Connecticut State Police Forensic Science Laboratory, and as the state’s chief criminalist from 1979 to 2000. He currently has a television show on the truTV network, formerly Court television, titled Trace Evidence: The Case Files of Doctor Henry Lee, which highlights his work on many well-known cases.
He has been a guest on the hit Taiwanese talk show KangXi Lai Le, discussing his experiences and getting involved with comedic banters, the show"s primary staple.
Famous cases
He has worked on famous cases such as the JonBenét Ramsey murder case, the Helle Crafts woodchipper murder, the O.J. Simpson and Laci Peterson cases, the post-9/11 forensic investigation, the Washington, District of Columbia sniper shootings and reinvestigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Lee investigated the 3-19 Shooting Incident of the Republic of China President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu. Following the O.J. Simpson case, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr hired Lee to join his investigation of the death of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster, who killed himself in Fort Marcy Park on 20 July 1993.
He also was consulted on the 1991 death of investigative journalist Danny Casolaro.
Initially, Lee said the evidence presented to him by police was consistent with suicide, but when additional evidence was revealed to him a few years later, Lee formally withdrew his earlier statement. In 2008, Lee was involved in the early stages of investigation for the missing Orlando toddler, Caylee Anthony.
= Controversy On May 23, 2007, Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler, the judge in the Philosophy Spector murder trial, said that he had concluded Lee hid or accidentally destroyed a piece of evidence from the scene of actress Lana Clarkson"s shooting.
