The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office is reviewing the death of another person connected with unlicensed group homes in Arlington and Mansfield after ruling a 60-year-old man’s death a homicide earlier this month, officials said. Arlington police are investigating the deaths of 20 people linked to the boarding homes owned by Regla Becquer and her […]
The death of a 12-year-old boy at a North Carolina wilderness camp for troubled adolescents has been ruled a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Monday. The boy died in February, less than 24 hours after having arrived at Trails Carolina, a for-profit program that has since lost its operating license. Trails Carolina has […]
SAC CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa truck driver who vanished last fall and whose body was found in a farm field this spring died of hypothermia related to acute methamphetamine intoxication, an autopsy found. State medical examiner Dr. Kelly Kruse ruled that 53-year-old David Schultz’s death was an accident, the Sioux City Journal reported. […]
The completed autopsy for University of Missouri student Riley Strain confirmed that he died as a result of drowning and heavy drinking. Strain attracted national attention after he went missing in early March for two weeks following a night out with his fraternity brothers in Nashville, Tennessee. His body was eventually located in the nearby […]
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed it is still investigating the death of former Coachella Valley state Assemblyman Brian Nestande, who succumbed to a lethal dose of fentanyl and cocaine. The sheriff’s department declined to disclose what aspects of the death it is investigating, and county prosecutors said no charges have been filed. In […]
Project Summary: This story is part of KXAN’s “Preventing Disaster” investigation, which initially published on May 15, 2024. The project follows a fatal car crash into an Austin hospital’s emergency room earlier that year. Our team took a broader look at safety concerns with that crash and hundreds of others across the nation – including […]
Critics said HB 198 would allow for more pruning along highways threatening native trees and plants. (Photo: Getty Images) A proposed NC law would limit family and public access to death records a gavel and the scales of justice By Lynn Bonner Autopsy results would be kept secret from the public in cases under criminal […]
PROVIDENCE – On Feb. 28, a 25-year-old man died after vomiting and complaining of chest pains for 24 hours at the Adult Correctional Institutions, according to his cellmate. Within the next few months, three other people died while in state custody. Questions swirl about what led to the sudden deaths, but in Rhode Island, unlike […]
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A prosecutor recently dismissed a homicide case after learning of a botched autopsy by former Milwaukee County Medical Examiner Dr. Brian Peterson. The autopsy of the victim, a 2-month-old baby named Kai Ivy, did not meet national standards for investigating sudden infant deaths, said Deputy District Attorney Matthew Torbenson. Torbenson dismissed the homicide charge he […]
A missing Colorado woman whose body was discovered in September died by homicide, with drugs often used as animal tranquilizers in her system, an autopsy report concluded. Suzanne Morphew, who vanished in May 2020, “died as a result of homicide by unspecified means in the setting of butorphanol, azaperone, and medetomidine intoxication,” according to the […]
Suzanne Morphew, the Colorado mom who went missing during a bike ride in 2020, was killed while under the influence of a powerful animal tranquilizer, a recently released autopsy found. Morphew’s death was ruled “homicide by undetermined means in the setting of butorphanol, azaperone, and medetomidine intoxication,” the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said in a […]