Dr. Fredric Rieders was an internationally renowned forensic toxicologist. He was born in Vienna, Austria on July 9, 1922. He was most well known for his testimony in the
O.J. Simpson murder trial, where he testified that the high levels of the preservative
EDTA found in blood at the scene indicated that it had not come from a human being, but possibly was planted.
[1] Some of his other well-known cases include the Robert Curley
[2] case, in which Curley’s wife, Joanne, poisoned him with thallium; another case is that of
Michael Swango, or “Dr. Death”—a serial killer who killed as many as 60 of his patients at various hospitals he worked at using
succinylcholine and
epinephrine.
[3]
Dr. Rieders received his PhD in
Pharmacology-
Toxicology from
Thomas Jefferson University. He worked as the Chief Toxicologist for the
City of Philadelphia for fourteen years. He later founded National Medical Services in Willow Grove, PA in 1970. NMS, now called NMSLabs, is a private toxicology lab that handles forensic and clinical toxicology. [
[4]] Dr. Rieders also created the non-profit Fredric Rieders Family Renaissance Foundation
[5] to instill a love of science in the young and disadvantaged. Currently the Foundation is affiliated with
Arcadia University's
Master of Science in
Forensic Science program. Dr. Rieders passed away on November 26, 2005 at the age of 83.
Dr. Fredric Rieders was an internationally renowned forensic toxicologist. He was born in Vienna, Austria on July 9, 1922. He was most well known for his testimony in the
O.J. Simpson murder trial, where he testified that the high levels of the preservative
EDTA found in blood at the scene indicated that it had not come from a human being, but possibly was planted.
[1] Some of his other well-known cases include the Robert Curley
[2] case, in which Curley’s wife, Joanne, poisoned him with thallium; another case is that of
Michael Swango, or “Dr. Death”—a serial killer who killed as many as 60 of his patients at various hospitals he worked at using
succinylcholine and
epinephrine.
[3]
Dr. Rieders received his PhD in
Pharmacology-
Toxicology from
Thomas Jefferson University. He worked as the Chief Toxicologist for the
City of Philadelphia for fourteen years. He later founded National Medical Services in Willow Grove, PA in 1970. NMS, now called NMSLabs, is a private toxicology lab that handles forensic and clinical toxicology. [
[4]] Dr. Rieders also created the non-profit Fredric Rieders Family Renaissance Foundation
[5] to instill a love of science in the young and disadvantaged. Currently the Foundation is affiliated with
Arcadia University's
Master of Science in
Forensic Science program. Dr. Rieders passed away on November 26, 2005 at the age of 83.