How Do You Find Official Autopsy Reports?
An autopsy is a physical examination on a decedent to find the cause and manner of death, the general health of the person at the time of death, and other health factors. Typically, coroners or medical examiners perform autopsies, but autopsies also can be performed by any board-certified forensic pathologist. Sometimes a family might request a second, private autopsy, which they pay for themselves, to help answer questions and concerns they feel weren’t addressed in the first autopsy. Laws and procedures regarding public access to autopsy reports vary from state to state. Find the county where the death took place. Autopsy reports are maintained in the coroner’s or medical examiner’s office for the county where the death occurred, which might not be where the incident that led to the death happened. To find the county, contact relatives of the deceased or research online obituaries. Contact the county coroner or medical examiner’s office. The easiest way to contact a county coroner’s
