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A Los Angeles County coroner examiner was busted Wednesday for allegedly snatching trinkets — including a crucifix — from the dead bodies he was tasked with investigating, officials said ...
Thomas Noguchi, the former chief medical examiner in Los Angeles, is featured in the Tony-nominated Broadway musical “Dead Outlaw” and in a new documentary about his life.
Dr. Thomas Noguchi, 98, a Japanese immigrant who served as the Los Angeles County chief medical examiner-coroner from 1967 to 1982, is the subject of Coroner to the Stars, a new documentary ...
In Los Angeles, it's medical examiner, not coroner from now on. The County's Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner has officially dropped its hyphenate after the Board of Supervisors approved its ...
Dr. Odey C. Ukpo has been sworn in as the interim Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner of Los Angeles County, the first Black person to serve in that capacity since the office was established in 1850, ...
The man dubbed by the press as “coroner to the stars” would go on to perform autopsies on famous names like Natalie Wood, John Belushi and Sharon Tate.
Even before the internet, the coroner’s office held mystique. In 1962, Mr. Dambacher and another investigator went to the west side of Los Angeles to retrieve Marilyn Monroe’s body.
Dr. Odey C. Ukpo has been sworn in as the interim Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner of Los Angeles County, the first Black person to serve in that capacity since the office was established in 1850 ...
Dr. Odey C. Ukpo has been sworn in as the interim Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner of Los Angeles County, the first Black person to serve in that capacity since the office was established in 1850, ...
Dr. Odey C. Ukpo has been sworn in as the interim Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner of Los Angeles County, the first Black person to serve in that capacity since the office was established in 1850, ...