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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/post-mortem/ Coroner Tim Brown of Marlboro County, SC, talks about his most famous -- and controversial -- case: the death of athlete Michael Jordan's father. Watch "Post Mortem" on PBS Feb. 1 at 9pm ET (check local listings).
Every day, nearly 7,000 people die in America. And when these deaths happen suddenly, or under suspicious circumstances, we assume there will be a thorough investigation, just like we see on CSI. But the reality is very different. 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 the decades. As a result, murderers go free and innocent people go to jail. FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman reports the results of a joint investigation with ProPublica, NPR, and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley. Watch on air and online beginning Tuesday, February 1st at 9 pm ET on PBS (check local listings).
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/post-mortem/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/are-we-safer/Watch the entire documentary here
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/post-mortemRead ProPublica's articles on this investigation:
Post Mortem
A year-long reporting effort into U.S. death investigation uncovered a deeply dysfunctional system that quite literally buries its mistakes.
http://www.propublica.org/topic/post-mortemNPR's work:
Post Mortem: Death Investigation in America : NPR
http://www.npr.org/series/133208980/post-mortem-death-investigation-in-america
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