Accidental Deaths
Falls: A leading cause of accidental death
Falls are the third most common cause of accidental death. But it’s not always easy to tell an accident from a homicide.
June 26, 2023
Falls are the third most common cause of accidental death. But it’s not always easy to tell an accident from a homicide.
Coroners are using recent advances in Rapid DNA, DNA databases, and genetic genealogy to identify human remains, including those retrieved from the Delaware River.
Not all homicides are murders. The coroner decides if the manner of death is homicide. The criminal justice system decides if it’s a crime.
Undetermined means the manner of death remains a mystery until the coroner has more information — which may never happen.
Drug overdose deaths in children, including the very young, are on the rise. They’re much less likely to be accidental than those in adolescents and adults.
The dangers of medicolegal death investigation are many, yet there is little information about the occupational safety of last responders.
Many coroner and medical examiner offices — government agencies — don’t provide access to the local medicolegal death investigation data they generate.
When intimate partner violence turns deadly: cases, facts, analysis, and a closer look at murder-suicides.
October 30, 2022 The number of forensic pathologists (FPs), the specialists who do medicolegal autopsies, has not kept pace with
The cause of death is the specific underlying disease or injury that initiated the chain of events leading to the death.
September 19, 2022 Private Autopsies Private autopsies are a fast-growing and lucrative sideline for many pathologists. Enter ‘private autopsy’ in
The opioid epidemic combined with a shortage of forensic pathologists is affecting the medicolegal investigation of drug deaths.