Correspondent, Lowell Bergman ; lead reporters for Propublica A.C. Thompson and Mosi Secret, lead reporter for NPR Sandra Bartlett, lead reporter for Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley Ryan Gabrielson, lead reporter for Frontline Arun Rath. Originally broadcast on television as an episode of Frontline.
Summary:
In over 1,300 counties across America, elected coroners, many with no medical or scientific background, are in charge of death investigations. Nationwide there is a severe shortage of competent forensic pathologists to do autopsies. The rate of autopsies -- the gold standard of death investigation--has plummeted over decades. As a result, not only do murders go free and innocent people go to jail, but the crisis in death investigation in America is also a threat to public health.
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