Trumbull pathologist has role in novels

WARREN — Locals have found Trumbull County’s forensic pathologist, Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk, to be an interesting character — his white hair, horn-rimmed glasses, and sharp intellect on display from the witness stand in numerous trials over the past decade. Especially evident is his ability to give complicated medical information to lay people in a way that produces confidence that the doctor has determined all there is to know about the cause of someone’s death.

Apparently novelist James Patterson finds the doctor interesting as well. Patterson, who has written dozens of best-selling mystery novels since the 1970s, learned of Dr. Germaniuk second-hand, from a longtime homicide detective in Washington, D.C., who knew Dr. Germaniuk when he was a forensic pathologist there.

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