The National Institutes of Health, comparing a medical examiner and coroner, states that Coroners are elected lay people who often do not have professional training, whereas medical examiners are appointed and have board certification in a medical specialty.
All of this is true.
On this episode of “Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan,” Joe will take you back in history to a time when the person who finds the dead body in their yard has to gather a posse and solve the murder mystery or be stuck with paying taxes!!
The coroner system has a long history, some funny stories, some strange people, and a few mysteries to unpack.
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