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May 25, 2025October 27, 2025

Interpreting Postmortem Toxicology Reports

Interpreting postmortem toxicology reports is tough. Here’s what I wish I’d known when I became a coroner.

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April 27, 2025June 30, 2025

Death and Politics: Electing Qualified Coroners

Requirements for electing coroners are abysmally low in most places. In today’s partisan elections, that’s dangerous.

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March 23, 2025March 23, 2025

A Coroner’s Posts on COVID-19 in April 2020

In 2020, I used social media for my Coroner’s posts on COVID-19. These are some of the Facebook posts I wrote documenting the first surge of the pandemic in early 2020. The posts are unedited and shown with original images. The quality of writing and graphics could be better, but that wasn’t the priority at…

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Christina VandePol is a writer, physician, and former coroner. Her award-winning memoir/true crime book, Madam Coroner, is forthcoming in late 2026. 

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