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Marshall Applewhite (1997), American leader of the Heaven's Gate religious cult, poisoned himself as part of the cult's mass suicide that year [62] Araki Yukio (1945), Japanese kamikaze pilot [63] Arbogast (394 AD), Roman general [64] Diane Arbus (1971), American photographer, overdosed on pills and slashed wrists [65] [66]
On 21 October 2021, Chief Coroner Judge Deborah Marshall confirmed that she had opened an inquiry into the Christchurch mosque shootings. [27] In late October, Marshall confirmed that she plans to examine the initial response to the attacks by emergency services and whether any victims could have been saved if things had been done differently.
In 2002, 22 states had a medical examiner system, 11 states had a coroner system, and 18 states had a mixed system. Since the 1940s, the medical examiner system has gradually replaced the coroner system and serves about 48% of the US population. [4] [5] The largest medical examiner's office in the United States is located in Baltimore, Maryland ...
The Hinds County, Mississippi, coroner's office, under fire for burying people in pauper’s graves without their families’ knowledge, released an undated policy on death notifications.
The coroner will also investigate when a death is deemed violent or unnatural, where the cause is unknown, where a death is the result of poisoning or industrial injury, or if it occurred in police custody or prison. The coroner's court is a court of law, and accordingly the coroner may summon
A coroner's inquest in the UK that considered only the autopsy report and the diplomats' reports returned an open verdict. [256] Anjuman Shehzadi (33–34), Pakistani film and stage actress, [257] [258] was found dead in Lahore under mysterious circumstances [259] [260] on 15 May 2011. Her death remains unsolved.
Los Angeles County Medical Examiner Building in 2008. The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner (“DMEC”, formerly the Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner and Department of Coroner) was created in its present form on December 17, 1920, by an ordinance approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, although it has existed in some form since the appointment of the ...
The current San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner is Shannon Dicus. replaced John McMahon on July 16, 2021. Serving below the Sheriff is the Undersheriff. As in most counties, the undersheriff is second-in-command of the entire Sheriff's Department. Beneath the Undersheriff are two Assistant Sheriffs.