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. Transcript Highlights 00:22.56. Introduction of studying the dead. 03:04.63 Discussion most people don’t die from bullet wounds 06:01.87 Talk about forensics 11:38.68 History of “Normans” 17:44.17 Discussion of power of Coroners 22:25.90 Discussion of Coroners Jury 26:18.76 Discussion of authority of coroner 31:00.67 Discussion of scientific people in coroner system 32:05.27 Talk about who backs up the coroner 37:48.5 Discussion of medical examiner state vs coroner state 42:49.50 Conclusion

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