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NBC 7’s Mari Payton shares a San Diegan’s experience with a private autopsy company.

Families who paid thousands of dollars for autopsies say they never got the answers they were looking for.

Drug use, drinking and car accidents continue to be the leading causes of deaths investigated by the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office, according to a report released Monday.

According to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, Johnson County Medical Examiner’s Office and the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office, a man who was reported missing by family members was “entirely consumed by his own dogs.”

The NYPD’s hate crimes unit is investigating slur-ridden “DIE” graffiti scrawled on a Brooklyn subway station poster of Ruth Bader Ginsburg after a rider flagged it on Twitter.

The Office of Environmental Protection found freezers were insufficient or not working and the fluids of the corpses are stored longer than necessary.

A 19-month-old toddler pulled from a pond in Mission Bay Park has died, the Medical Examiner’s office confirmed.

Investigators on Wednesday said the discovery of a toddler’s dismembered remains in a Chicago lagoon is “unimaginable” and called for anyone with knowledge on the child’s death to come forward.

Officials on Tuesday revealed more details about child body parts found in a Chicago lagoon over the weekend.

The Cook County medical examiner has estimated the age of a child whose body parts were found in the Garfield Park lagoon over the weekend. After the head of the child was recovered Sunday night, the medical examiner determined the child was African American and most likely between 2 and 3 years old. The cause and manner of death are...

A new program in San Diego County hopes a hard dose of reality will help criminals change their ways.