Coroners
All Homicides are not Murders
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.
April 23, 2023
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.
October 30, 2022 The number of forensic pathologists (FPs), the specialists who do medicolegal autopsies, has not kept pace with
The opioid epidemic combined with a shortage of forensic pathologists is affecting the medicolegal investigation of drug deaths.
Cremation permanently destroys bodily evidence. There’s no body to exhume. There’s no bone or hair to test for DNA or
The Pennsylvania Center for Rural PA (CRP) released an in-depth report this week on the state’s medicolegal death investigation system.