My understanding is the coroner thought it appropriate that he be given the opportunity to explain his part of the story.
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In order to ensure there was no question about making sure the obligations of the office were fulfilled, he executed a letter on Sept. 19 confirming (Hayes') appointment as chief deputy coroner of Caddo Parish. There's no election required. The Caddo Commission can call an election, or they can allow the chief deputy to carry out the function until the next scheduled election.
By law it is up to the coroner to decide manner and cause of death. We process the bodies through these stations as we get them, but we are caught up and current as of now.
Some people don't understand what our team is all about. We're more for assistance for the coroner who can't handle the amount of deaths,
Unfortunately, because of the lack of remains we are not going to be able to ever determine the exact manner or cause of death. The coroner will classify both as undetermined.
We heard this horrific story today of a woman whose husband died and she sat in the tent for hours because there's nothing you can do with the body ... and just went to tell the coroner, 'I marked it and you can find the body here or there,'
It's almost indescribable, because I was born and raised with these people. You want to help them. But what can a coroner do
Some of them literally walked away from here and checked into a hotel room. So we are now trying to find everyone and coordinate the manifest, which the coroner has, with the people we have in hotel rooms or who are in hospitals.
We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.
Look at Sir Charles's death That was bad enough, for all that the coroner said. Look at the noises on the moor at night. There's not a man would cross it after sundown if he was paid for it. Look at this stranger hiding out yonder, and watching and waiting What's he waiting for What does it mean It means no good to anyone of the name of Baskerville . . .
I've enjoyed serving the people of Scott County as a deputy coroner. It's his decision. I have no grudges and I will not bad-mouth him. He's been good to me and I understand his position.
I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.
The engineer of the train reported seeing the man step out onto the tracks. Although the coroner will make an official determination, it would appear to be a suicide.
This a whitewash. There's nothing in here which gives any information on what the coroner and pathologist did in this case.
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
The final reports from the coroner have not been made and given to us. However, like I've said, I'll have to revert to what they told us about the toxicology reports earlier, and that is that there weren't any drugs or alcohol in the blood, and, once again, I didn't hear her say illegal drugs or legal drugs.