OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the changes in the understanding of the manner and cause of death occurring during the course of coronial investigations. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of deaths reported to coroners in Australia between 1 July 2000 and 31 December 2007, using the Nation...
The Los Angeles County Coroner has released a cause of death for 34-year-old pop singer Aaron Carter, six months after he was found dead in the tub in his Lancaster home. Aaron Carterdied from "drowning,"according to theLos Angeles CountyDepartment of Medical Examiner-Coroner. The "effects ...
We undertook a prospective study of all consecutive deaths reported to the Coroner for Birmingham and Solihull in a 5 year period. We identified 52 sudden deaths associated with symptoms commencing during sport participation. We studied the characteristics of these individuals. The majority had been ...
Since 2008, all pediatric deaths in British Columbia have been reported to the coroner. The cause of death in pediatric sudden unexpected death (SUD) remains undetermined in 10% to 30% of cases. Before 2008, there was no standardized approach for referring relatives of SUD victims for follow-...
The San Bernardino County Coroner determined Stephanie Menard, 73, and Daniel Menard, 79, died from blunt-force trauma to the head and classified their deaths as a homicide. Neighbors last saw the couple alive on Aug. 24 at their home at the Olive Dell Ranch nudist resort. T...
Police and a county coroner say four University of Idaho students who were found dead in a rental house Sunday were stabbed to death in their beds and likely were asleep.
In South Carolina, 36 people were confirmed dead from the storm as of Tuesday morning, according to the coroner's offices in 11 affected counties. Gov. Henry McMaster had announced most of those deaths Monday. They included two firefighters and two people who were killed when trees fell on ...
If I were the coroner ruling on Vincent Van Gogh’s death, I’d readily concur thecause of deathwas slow exsanguination resulting from a single gunshot wound to the abdomen. I’d have a harder time with theclassification. Here, I’d have to use a process of elimination from the five...
The coroner’s office said young infants have limited neck muscle strength to reposition their airway which can lead to a form of oxygen deprivation, but the office couldn’t confirm or exclude “a contributory component of mechanical or obstructive asphyxia” so the manner of th...
Traevon Desjarlais-Chalifoux , 17, was found dead in a closet of an Abbotsford group home in September 2020 after being reported missing four days earlier. The BC Coroners Service has scheduled a public inquest into the death of Traevon Desjarlais-Chalifoux, 17, who was f...