dead bodies
'Practically Everybody Is Capable of Murder': An Interview with a Forensic Pathologist
If you die a violent death, chances are you'll soon be on a cold table in front of someone like Eva Schemer.
Necrophilia Is a Tough Crime to Adjudicate
Laws for governing the treatment of dead bodies are murky at best and contradictory at worst, since it's more of an ethical question whether corpses should be treated like people or property.
Should Photographing Corpses Be Illegal?
In a world where photos of corpses can circulate around the internet and cause distress to grieving families, does it make sense to formally ban anyone taking pictures of dead bodies?
Did a Minnesota Man Pull a 'Weekend At Bernie's' with His Dead Mom?
After collecting her dead body on the day she died, police found out that 90-year-old Caryl Vanzo's son had taken her to the bank earlier that day to take out money in her name.
Visiting the Place Where LA's Unclaimed Dead Are Buried
A trip to the LA County Crematorium Cemetery.
Learning to Read Corpses at the Texas State Body Farm
I talked with Dr. Daniel Wescott, director of the Texas State Forensic Anthropology Center, about how bodies decompose in the wild and what our bones say about us.
This Mortician Wants You to Take a Hands-On Approach with Corpses
"We are entrenched in the idea that dead bodies are dangerous, and we are entrenched in the idea that it is better to have professionals do it... American death is a really recent invention."
Postmortem: The Life and Deaths of a Medicolegal Death Investigator
I've spent most of my life employed as a medicolegal death investigator. My career began at a coroner's office in New Orleans and concluded more than three decades later. I participated in 7,000 forensic autopsies and completed more than 2,000 next-of...
A Visit to the Little Shop Where Hollywood Buys Its Dead Bodies
Dapper Cadaver is where the prop masters of your favorite movies and TV shows shop. Sure you could make your own corpses from scratch, but when there's a shop that offers medically realistic dead bodies, not just of humans, but of all creatures great...
Volunteer-Run Morgues Are a Terrible Idea
Australia’s Northern Territory is huge, sparsely populated, poor, and crawling with deadly animals. It’s not surprising, then, that it doesn’t attract many professional types.