This character is mostly usefull in games with an unknown number of killers, see Random Existance of Roles and Multiple Lifes.

The Forensic specialist is a civilian character who gets to ask about one dead character per night. He receives both the method of death (killed by Mafia, or by Werewolf, etc.) and a unique killer ID.

For example, he gets to know that the first card he knows was killed by Mafia number 1. The next night, he learns that the new victim he checks was killed by Mafia number 2. Thus he knows there are at least two Mafia among them. And so on.

This character is virtually impossible to manage by a "live" moderator, but the computer moderator can do a decent job.

This character was created by Greg Huey, who is also the author of the computer moderator program. See also the Medical Examiner.