Ruth Dwyer is a medical examiner for the Chicago Police Department. She was portrayed by Kathy Scambiatterra.
Biography[]
During Stepping Stone, Kim Burgess would come to her place of work and told Dwyer that Trudy Platt sent her. Kim would have Dwyer leave the room in order to give her a barf bag. But when she leaves Kim would take the ring off one of the corps as the body was of a relative of Platt's.
In Say Her Real Name, Dwyer would perform an autopsy on Felicia Hughes, a college student who fell to her death. She would tell both Adam Ruzek and Jay Halstead that there was alcohol and benzodiazepine in her system. She also tells the officers that there has been bruising behind her left Triceps, which indicates someone who if right-handed grabbed her forcibly. Ruzek asks her if she will declare this a homicide, but Dwyer tells him that she is unsure. She also tells them that Felicia didn't have much of a chance at fighting back because of all the alcohol in her system.
In The Three Gs, Dwyer would be called to a building to examine the bodies of six girls. She would tell Erin Lindsay and Antonio Dawson that the girls died from starvation and dehydration.
In Never Forget I Love You, Dwyer would perform an autopsy on a female, who was found in the river with her head separated from the rest of her body. She would tell Erin Lindsay and Jay Halstead that the victim the strangled. She also tells them that the holes in her body were made by a power drill in order for the body to sink, meaning however did this knew what they were doing.
Appearances[]
| Season 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stepping Stone | Wrong Side of the Bars | Chin Check | Now Is Always Temporary | Thirty Balloons |
| Conventions | The Price We Pay | Different Mistakes | A Material Witness | At Least It's Justice |
| Turn the Light Off | 8:30 PM | My Way | The Docks | A Beautiful Friendship |
| Season 2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Call It Macaroni | Get My Cigarettes | The Weigh Station | Chicken, Dynamite, Chainsaw | An Honest Woman |
| Prison Ball | They'll Have to Go Through Me | Assignment of the Year | Called in Dead | Shouldn't Have Been Alone |
| We Don't Work Together Anymore | Disco Bob | A Little Devil Complex | Erin's Mom | What Do You Do |
| What Puts You On That Ledge | Say Her Real Name | Get Back to Even | The Three Gs | The Number of Rats |
| There's My Girl | Push the Pain Away | Born Into Bad News | ||
| Season 3 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life Is Fluid | Natural Born Storyteller | Actual Physical Violence | Debts of the Past | Climbing Into Bed |
| You Never Know Who's Who | A Dead Kid, a Notebook and a Lot of Maybes | Forget My Name | Never Forget I Love You | Now I'm God |
| Knocked the Family Right Out | Looking Out For Stateville | Hit Me | The Song of Gregory Williams Yates | A Night Owl |
| The Cases That Need to Be Solved | Forty-Caliber Bread Crumb | Kasual with a K | If We Were Normal | In a Duffel Bag |
| Justice | She's Got Us | Start Digging | ||
| Season 4 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Silos | Made a Wrong Turn | All Cylinders Firing | Big Friends, Big Enemies | A War Zone |
| Some Friend | 300,000 Likes | A Shot Heard Around the World | Don't Bury This Case | Don't Read the News |
| You Wish | Sanctuary | I Remember Her Now | Seven Indictments | Favor, Affection, Malice or Ill-Will |
| Emotional Proximity | Remember the Devil | Little Bit of Light | Last Minute Resistance | Grasping for Salvation |
| Fagin | Army of One | Fork in the Road | ||
| Season 5 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reform | The Thing About Heroes | Promise | Snitch | Home |
| Fallen | Care Under Fire | Politics | Monster | Rabbit Hole |
| Confidential | Captive | Chasing Monsters | Anthem | Sisterhood |
| Profiles | Breaking Point | Ghosts | Payback | Saved |
| Allegiance | Homecoming | |||
| Season 7 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doubt | Assets | Familia | Infection, Part III | Brother's Keeper |
| False Positive | Informant | No Regrets | Absolution | Mercy |
| 43rd and Normal | The Devil You Know | I Was Here | Center Mass | Burden of Truth |
| Intimate Violence | Before the Fall | Lines | Buried Secrets | Silence of the Night |