After weeks of multiple court filings, the widow and brother of Dau Mabil have agreed on a pathologist who can perform an independent autopsy of the body Dau that was pulled from the Pearl River near ...

Early in her career, Susan Ely helped put a serial killer behind bars. It was the late 1990s, and she was working as a fellow at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) of the City of New York.

In some instances, a person may have specified his or her desire for an autopsy, perhaps in conversation or by signing a personal directive. Most states require permission from a doctor, next of kin ...

SEATTLE – Yakima County’s embattled coroner declined to implicate the county in a controversial jail death this summer, even after the pathologist who conducted the autopsy reclassified the death from ...

A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina’s second firing squad execution was conscious and likely suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute after the bullets, meant to quickly ...

A forensic pathologist hired by Jeffrey Epstein’s brother said Wednesday that evidence suggested that Epstein did not die by suicide but may have been strangled. The New York City medical examiner’s ...