Coroner

According to the author Biography(2017), Officer Arndt made numerous mistakes when she responded to the Ramsey home. The first mistake Officer Ardnt made was failing to secure the scene by closing off the residence. The second mistake was She failed to control the crime scene to prevent a possible witness from moving. The third mistake was she failed to order to isolate all possible witness or suspects for interrogation. The author Saferstein (2014) also notes that the Father, John was even…

When we focused on the Death Investigations film, it was a lot of the medical examiners making mistakes and police officers taking a better look at the investigation at hand. The coroners were straight up making mistakes due to the lack of knowledge of forensic science. This article, also extremely frustrating explains how the Chicago Police Department is “crunching numbers” in order to show how the homicide rates have decreased from year to year. Both problems are huge issues but one is an…

Through assisting medical examiners and coroners with their expertise they can identify and determine the cause of death of a body by only examining their skeletal remains. Forensic anthropologists pick up clues from the bones using the morphology of the hip bone to determine sex, the angle of…

Dead Men Floating Away You would think that the people in Hardin, Missouri would be tried already. When a flood in 1993 washes away the bones of loved ones in the cemetery, they have to In 1993 rivers in Missouri began to overflow. The town of Hardin, Missouri was affected by this. Flood waters covered over 20 million acres of land! 50 people died, 55,000 homes were destroyed, and 15 billion dollars was destroyed in damaged. While the flood was something to worry about, the residents of…

Table 4 provides details of resource use and costs used in the model. The cost of treating unintentional poisoning injury was estimated based on NHS reference costs for hospital services obtained from PSSRU Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2012 (Curtis 2012). In the model, it was assumed that all medically reported cases of unintentional poisoning are taken to the emergency department for initial assessment and or treatment. In the emergency department, cases are triaged as minor requiring…

From The Murder and The Vigilante, by John Steinbeck, and Killings and Rose, by Andre Dubus, the theme of the individual vs. society is shown repeatedly. The common ground that is provided to us from these 4 different short stories by two separate authors, is that they all contain their view of society in the context of violence, justice, and the law. A major similarity that is seen throughout these short stories, is the context of violence, justice, and the law. In all 4 short stories,…

The main issues in this case are as follows. Why was the coroner so persistent to deem the death of Phoebe Handsjuk a suicide or tragic accident amidst all the evidence suggesting otherwise? Why were the police so insufficient in this case? Why wasn’t more evidence collected at the time of the death? All these issues relate to the work of law-enforcement workers. The police and the police coroner failed the Handsjuk family in not finding the one responsible for Phoebe’s death. They classified it…

Within the past four years I have learned a lot about myself, my beliefs, and my goals in life. I have learned I am a positive, hardworking, respectful and confident student, friend, and daughter. I have challenged my beliefs year to year and hopefully will continue to do so more in the future. I believe that to survive life you must be truly happy. To be truly happy it is important to surround yourself with others who truly love you and to most importantly love yourself. I believe in always…

began dissections and I quickly discovered I was not interested in anything that had to do with sick animals at the thought of them dying under my care steered me away. My love of dissection led me to the greatest extreme my dream job then becoming coroner. As I experienced more things my opinions changed. “Education is a...way of educating ourselves without any illusion that our education will ever be complete.”(Cronon…

In the self-composed drama, “Concussion”, Will Smith is Dr. Bennett Omalu, a Nigerian forensic pathologist who discovers a disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is commonly associated to football players who were exposed to recurrent violent blows to the head, depending on their position in the field. While working at the Pittsburgh coroner's office, Dr. Bennett comes across the dead body of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center, Mike Webster, who died miserably in his…