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The process used by medical examiner and coroner offices to determine cause of death
treats asphyxia, cardiopulmonary (cardiac) arrest, and drug intoxication as overlapping but distinct problems that must be disentangled by integrating scene information, autopsy findings, histology an...
Peer‑reviewed forensic literature shows there are patterns that tend to differ between suicidal hangings and homicidal strangulations—most hangings are suicidal and often show a complete, horizontal l...
Forensic pathologists determine a drug contribution to death by integrating scene information, autopsy findings, and targeted toxicology—then weighing those results against trauma or restraint evidenc...
Forensic investigators determine when and why a person died by combining scene observations, postmortem physical changes, autopsy findings, laboratory testing and specialist input — a coordinated, mul...