Henry Lee (criminologist)
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Dr.
Henry Chang-Yu Lee (
Chinese: 李昌鈺,
pinyin: Lǐ Chāngyù) (born
November 22,
1938), is one of the world's foremost
forensic scientists.
Dr. Lee was born in
Rugao city,
Jiangsu province, China, and fled to
Taiwan at the end of the
Chinese Civil War when he was six. He graduated in
1960 from the
Taiwan Central Police College with a degree in Police Science. Lee then began his work with the
Taipei Police Department, where he rose to the rank of captain at age 22, the youngest in Chinese history.
In 1972, after coming to the
United States to pursue his education, he earned a
B.S. in Forensic Science from
John Jay College of
Criminal Justice in
New York. He went on to study
science and
biochemistry at
New York University and earned his
M.S. in
1974 and
Ph. D. in Biochemistry in
1975.
Dr. Lee is currently the Chief Emeritus for Scientific Services for the
State of Connecticut and a full professor of
forensic science at the
University of New Haven, where he has helped to set up the
Henry C. Lee Forensic Institute. Previously, he has served as Connecticut's Commissioner of Public Safety, the Director of the Connecticut State Police Forensic Science Laboratory, and as the state's chief
criminologist from
1979 to
2000.
Dr. Lee currently resides in Connecticut with his wife of 39 years, Margaret.
He has worked on famous cases such as the
JonBenét Ramsey murder, the
O. J. Simpson and
Laci Peterson cases, the post-
9/11 forensic investigation, and the
Washington, DC sniper shootings. He investigated the
3-19 Shooting Incident of President
Chen Shui-bian and Vice President
Annette Lu.
Following the O.J. Simpson case Independent Counsel
Kenneth Starr hired Dr. Henry Lee to join his investigation of the death of Deputy White House Counsel
Vincent Foster who was found shot to death in
Fort Marcy Park on July 20, 1993. Dr. Lee claimed to see "reddish-brown, blood-like stains" on the vegetation in photographs and he said "if these stains are, in fact, blood spatters" it would be consistent with the official conclusion of the
Independent Counsel.
Witness reports of eyewitnesses at the crime scene can be compared to the bloodspatters, gunpowder evidence, and evidence of an exit wound presented by Dr. Henry Lee in the Report on Foster's death by the Independent Counsel. Dr. Lee was one of many experts retained by Kenneth Starr's office. Lee's Report submitted to Kenneth Starr was eventually made public through a Freedom of Information request from
Accuracy in Media.
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Dr. Henry Lee's official site*
Taiwanese news report on Dr. Lee's arrival in Taipei
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Report On the death of Vincent W. Foster, Jr., by the Office of Independent Counsel in Re: Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association. Available from the government printing office as document number 028-004-00095-8, 137 pages, $14.
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Biography (Chinese)
