In an effort to obtain comments from interested parties, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, Scientific Working Group for Medicolegal Death Investigation will make available to the general public a draft document entitled, ``Guidelines for Media Relations: Dissemination of Public Information in Medicolegal Death Investigations.'' The opportunity to provide comments on this document is open to coroner/ medical examiner office representatives, law enforcement agencies, organizations, and all other stakeholders and interested parties. Those individuals wishing to obtain and provide comments on the draft document under consideration are directed to the following Web site: http://www.swgmdi.org
JACKSON - Mississippi public safety officials said Friday that deputy medical examiner Dr. Adel Shaker no longer works for the state. Dr. Shaker no longer works for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety and because this is a personnel matter there will be no further comment," said Jon Kalahar, spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.
JACKSON - Mississippi authorities are reviewing the case of a black man who was found hanging dead from a tree after relatives claimed the state's deputy medical examiner can't be trusted because he falsified information about a British woman's death while he was working in Africa . The Mississippi Department of Public Safety said it began its investigation Monday after allegations surfaced that Dr. Adel Shaker falsified information in the 1998 death of Julie Ward, a British tourist killed on a visit to Kenya. Shaker was a pathologist in Kenya at the time.
A gravestone on a grassy North Strabane hillside marks the remains of three women buried side-by-side -- not because they knew each other in life, but because no one could figure out who they were in death. Those were the last three cases to pass through the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office "whose names are known only to God," as the marker placed in 2009 on the paupers' grave at Woodruff Memorial Park reads.
BANGOR, Maine -- The state medical examiner's office has determined that a man who took bath salts and died at Eastern Maine Medical Center last July overdosed on the synthetic street drug. Ralph E. Willis, 32, had consumed "a toxic level" of methylenedioxypyrovalerone, or MDPV, a key ingredient of bath salts, Mark Belserene, administrator of the medical examiner's office, said Wednesday.
In an effort to obtain comments from interested parties, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, Scientific Working Group for Medicolegal Death Investigation will make available to the general public a document entitled, ``Organ and Tissue Procurement Committee Standards and Best Practices for Interaction Between Medical Examiner/Coroner Offices and Organ Tissue Procurement Organizations''. The opportunity to provide comments on this document is open to coroner/medical examiner office representatives, law enforcement agencies, organizations, and all other stakeholders and interested parties. Those individuals wishing to obtain and provide comments on the draft document under consideration are directed to the following Web site: http://w...
The state medical examiner has determined that Danielle Dennis- Towne, an 18-year-old woman from Illinois found dead inside the trunk of a car on Friday, was killed by a gunshot wound to the head. Clifton Forge Police Chief Barry Balser said the medical examiner used dental records to confirm Dennis-Towne's identity. The examiner also determined the cause of death, he said.
Dr. Karen Chancellor looks death in the face every day. As she strides the halls of the Regional Forensic Center in scrubs and well-worn boots, Shelby County's chief medical examiner plays a role that is vital to the public, and decidedly unglamorous.
Dr. James J. Woytash, Erie County chief medical examiner, whose office has come under fire over the causes of death in several controversial criminal cases, has stepped down from the post. Woytash has returned to his old job as the chief of service in the pathology department at Erie County Medical Center, a position he filled on a part-time basis while also working as chief medical examiner.
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