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Death Investigation
Former medical examiner pleads guilty to conspiring to distribute painkillers for sex (GA)
Doctor: Victim Could Run After Officer Shot Him in the Heart
Charges dropped against man in death of 11-week-old girl in Archdale
Entomological Evidence: What’s Bugging You at the Crime Scene
NIJ Advocates for CT Scans to Assist Forensic Pathologists
North Carolina State Anthropologists Make Bone Density Breakthrough
Defense experts: Girl’s death not abuse, but stroke caused by blood clots (WI)
How a Victim’s Last Meal Can Identify a Killer
Autopsy Doctor Resigns, Says Sheriff Overrode Death Findings to Protect Officers (CA)
San Joaquin’s forensic pathologist resigns, claims ‘intolerable’ work environment (CA)
Mouth Microbiome Provides New Estimate of Time of Death
Some corpses may mysteriously heat up after death
Researchers Estimate Time Since Death Using Necrobiome
State v. Daughtridge, 248 N.C. App. 707 (2016)
Trial court erred in allowing a forensic pathologist’s opinion that the decedent’s death was a homicide as opposed to a suicide that was based on his interpretation of non-medical information conveyed to him by law enforcement officers. The State failed to adequately explain how the expert was in a better position than the jurors to …